WHY PERSONS TAKE TO FARMING 



I hope to be a farmer, keeping a salaried posi- 

 tion until the farm assures me a good living 

 and is entirely paid for." 



(8) From a woman born in the city, and 

 wishing to follow "some not too strenuous out- 

 door occupation." "I desire to go on a farm 

 probably because I never lived on one. 



" 'As a rule a man 's a fool; 

 When it 's hot he wants it cool, 

 And when it 's cool he wants it hot 

 Always wanting what is not. ' 



"My father and my mother's brothers were 

 born on the farm; but they left it as soon as 

 they were old enough to act independently, so 

 that, in my farming notions, I have no encourage- 

 ment from relatives. They, however, had their 

 way to make. I do not expect to make money 

 on a farm, that is, not primarily, though I 

 hope to make the farm support me (who am the 

 proposed overseer) and all the other workers 

 on it. 



"A farmer who works his own farm is only, 

 after all, an independent day-laborer, and no 

 one can blame a young man for trying other 

 methods of making a living. The case of some 

 women with a small amount of capital is quite 

 different, however. For instance, if a woman 



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