THE TRAINING OF FARMERS 



Town students 



Horticulture (mostly fruit and green- 

 house business) 15 



Stock and dairy farming 14 



General farming 8 



Poultry 4 



Many of these persons who desire to take 

 up direct farming occupations, however, 

 have no capital with which to start. They 

 will follow teaching or some other salaried 

 work for a time, as they tell me in their 

 replies, in order that they may accumulate 

 the means to buy land and equipment. Of 

 course some of them will never get back to 

 the land after they are once engaged in 

 another enterprise, but this will be their 

 misfortune rather than their choice. 



The figures are most suggestive as to 

 the intentions of the town students. There 

 are, of course, no sharp lines of classifica- 

 tion as between farm and town. Some of 

 the students have spent their time in both 

 city and country, and are essentially towns- 

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