WHY BOYS LEAVE FARM 



"b. Disadvantages of being away from schools, 

 churches, entertainments, social life, etc., which 

 a city affords. 



"c. Somewhat too ambitious to be content 

 with the quiet life of a farmer. 



"d. A natural liking for machinery and engi- 

 neering work. 



"e. I was physically not strong enough to do 

 the heavy, hard work which farm life demands 

 of the man unable to hire it done. The most 

 unattractive part of farm life is the long day's 

 work, under a hot, sweltering sun, following a 

 harrow or pitching hay or doing similar work. 

 Plowing was an exception: I like to plow. 



"Farm life has changed a great deal since I 

 left the farm twelve years ago. Machinery has 

 been added, making the work easier; farming 

 has become more scientific, giving scope to the 

 man who does not wish to be a mere nobody. 

 For the last few years there has been more 

 money in farming. 



"At the end of my arts course I could have 

 returned to the farm, made a better farmer, 

 been more contented, and worth decidedly more 

 to mankind and to my country than I could 

 ever have been without it." 



(25) (Arkansas) "In my part of the coun- 

 try cotton is the only staple crop, the produc- 



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