INFLUENCE OF A SINGLE FARM COMMUNITY. 



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forth, either daily or weekly. In the early days there was no insti- 

 tution of like character near as a competitor. In somewhat later 

 days, When there arose competitors, the larger area still held for a 

 time to the academy by habit and tradition. In recent years a 

 much smaller area, referred to here as the ''smaller community," 

 has furnished the greater part of the students, with some additions 



Fig. C— Map of migration to the county and the State. The number of migrants from the farms of the 

 larger co m munity of Belleville who went no farther"than the State boundary is here graphically dis- 

 played, the dots of different sizes showing the distribution of migrants in residence in the county, and 

 in the State outside of the county. The smallest sized dot represents one migrant. 



from certain farms .in the larger community- where the tradition still 

 holds. (See fig. 2;j 



MIGRATION FROM THlf FARMS OF THE COMMUNITY. 



The elaborate character of the following study of migration is 

 deemed necessary in order to make a convincing impression with a 

 time-worn theme. Everybody has been aware of the stream to the 



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