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of farms of 25 square miles in extent, the relation of which to the 

 academy is constantly such that the academy records are a good index 

 of the adolescent life of the community. And in the larger community 

 of 225 square miles, the academy records cover so large a percentage 

 of the adolescent life on the farms that it is a fair index of the char- 

 acter and movements of its adolescents. Because of this intimate 

 relation of the farms to the academy from 1826 to 1920, it is deemed 



Fig. 8.— Home farm distribution of students from farms who migrated from Belleville community after 

 attending the academy. -Migrants to county, State, Nation, and foreign lands are included. The 

 migrants represented here are, for the most part, young men and women in late teens or early twenties at 

 the time of leaving the community. Their tastes, inclinations, and associations were at that time fairly 

 well developed, so that they may he assumed to have carried the home community's ideals to every 

 community touched. 



that the movement of the students of the academy in two currents, 

 one back to the farms, the other away from the farms in migration, 

 is a fair representation of the migratory movement in this locality. 

 The "larger community," so called in this study, comprises trie 

 territor}^ from which Union Academy has received the bulk of 

 its students. It is all within a radius of about 7A miles, a distance 

 which has been considered practical for students to travel back and 



