WHY BOYS LEAVE FAEM 



side by organized capital and on the other 

 by organized labor. He is confronted by 

 fixed earnings. What he himself secures 

 is a remainder left at the end of a year's 

 business. 



Neither can the question of the onerous- 

 ness of physical labor be overlooked in the 

 replies. About one-fifth of the replies men- 

 tion this as a distinct handicap. This will 

 no doubt surprise those persons who have 

 thought of machinery as eliminating the 

 toil of farming; but it must be remem- 

 bered that the farmer is both capitalist and 

 workingman (in this respect being almost 

 unique, as a large class of the community), 

 and that this question takes a different as- 

 pect according to the point of view from 

 which the farmer looks at it. The replies 

 raise the question as to whether the far- 

 mer is to continue to occupy this dual 

 position. 



The replies of these serious-minded 

 youths should also set every thoughtful 

 person wondering what is to be the place of 

 the farmer in the social scheme of things, 

 and whether the present trend is doing 



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