SIZE OF FARMS 269 



New York, on 674 farms. On the smallest farms, 79 per 

 cent of the sons had left home. On the largest farms, 16 

 per cent had left. About half of those who left the farms 

 have gone to cities or towns. The others are farming 

 or are working as farm hands for neighbors. The farmers 

 on the small farms averaged a little older than those on' 

 the large farms. But the difference is not enough to ac- 

 count for the large number of sons away from home. 



REFERENCES 



New York, Cornell Bulletin 295. 



U. S. Dept. Agr., Bureau of Plant Industry, Bulletin 259, pp. 17- 



27. 



Principles of Rural Economics, T. N. Carver, pp. 117-223. 

 Agricultural Economics, H. C. Taylor, pp. 117-135. 

 Twelfth Census, Vol. V, Part I, pp. xliii-liii and 186-205. 



