WHY PERSONS TAKE TO FARMING 



2. COUNTRY TO COUNTRY 



It was to be expected that the most 

 significant responses would come from those 

 students who have had experience of farm 

 life and also of college life. I have replies 

 from 193 students of this class, all enrolled 

 in the College of Agriculture at Cornell 

 University. Aside from the great signifi- 

 cance of these replies from the occupa- 

 tional point of view, the responses afford 

 an interesting commentary on the wide- 

 spread notion that the agricultural col- 

 leges "educate the boys away from the 

 farm"; and what is true (or not true) in 

 this particular agricultural college is also 

 true in others. 



Replies from farm students 



Following is a tabulation of the various 

 reasons that are alleged by these 193 farm 

 students for desiring to remain on the 

 farm. I publish them only for the purpose 

 of stating some of the motives that actuate 

 farm boys, and not as statistics or as a con- 

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