THE TRAINING OF FARMERS 



balanced by other considerations. These 

 disabilities are as follows: 



No money in farming 4 



Requires better health than the respondent has 4 

 Farming requires more capital than respon- 

 dent possesses 3 



Farm life is lonely 3 



The work is hard 2 



Farmer does not control prices 1 



Small opportunities for development ... 1 



No employment for women 1 



Letters from farm-bred students 



It will now be interesting to transcribe 

 some of the reasons that these farm boys 

 allege as determining their choice to re- 

 main on the farm, for they may be looked 

 on as indigenous and non- theoretical ; and 

 these reasons have the advantage, also, of 

 having been formulated after the persons 

 had seen something beyond the farm. It 

 is most interesting to know, also, that 

 nearly all these 193 students are from New 

 York state; for it is often asserted that 

 agriculture offers little inducement in the 

 old East as compared with the West a 

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