WHY SOME BOYS AND GIRLS TAKE TO 

 FARMING 



IN the previous chapter I presented the 

 reasons that 155 college students gave 

 me for leaving the f arm to*ngage in other 

 occupations. These students saw little op- 

 portunity in farming, ^forty per cent. ;piL v 

 them alleging that the business offers no 

 financial reward. Twenty per cent, said 

 that the physical labor is too exacting, and - s 



approximately an % equal number tjiat 1*9 

 social opportunities are offered. These re-\ 

 plies present one view of the vexed ques- x 

 tion as to what the place of the farmer is 

 to be in our coming civilization. There 

 was a strain of hope running through some 

 of the replies to the effect that in the 

 future the opportunities on the farm would 

 be improved; but, for the most part, the 

 responses were hopelessly against the busi- 

 ness of farming as a means of personal 

 achievement. 



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