INFLUENCE OF A SINGLE FARM COMMUNITY. 
35 
OCCUPATIONS OF MIGRANTS AND OF STAY-AT-HOMES. 
In order to answer, for this particular community, the question 
"What occupations do farm migrants enter?" a record was made 
of all the occupations entered by the Union Academy students. 
Of the 2,445 students whose final residence is known, it was possible 
to discover the occupations of 2,079. 
Table X shows the distribution of students from the academy 
among the chief occupation groups. Those who chose farming, for 
the most part remained in the home community, and usually upon 
the home farm or upon a farm in close proximity to it. The table, 
then, becomes an interpretation of the occupations of migrants, by 
making allowance for the farming quota as "stay-at-homes." 
For comparative purposes, the 3,604 students of the academy are 
classified as coming from farm and nonfarm homes in column A of 
the table. In column B, which gives the occupations of both men 
and women students, the married women, except in the case of 
self-supporting widows, are classified under the occupations in which 
their husbands were engaged. In column D, the married women 
are classified as home makers. 
Table X. — Occupa 
ions chosen 
by students c 
>/ Union Academy (1824- 
-1920) 
Occupations. 
A 
Occupations 
of fathers of 
students. 
B 
Occupations 
of male 
and female 
students. 
C 
Occupations 
of male 
students. 
D 
Occupations 
of female 
students. 
E 
Occupations 
of married 
women's 
husbands. 
F 
Occupations 
of unmarried 
women. 
Num- 
ber. 
Per 
cent. 
Num- 
ber. 
Per 
cent. 
Num- 
ber. 
Per 
cent. 
Num- 
ber. 
Per 
cent. 
Num- 
ber. 
Per 
cent. 
Num- 
ber. 
Per 
cent. 
Farming 
Public service. . 
Professions 
Commerce 
Manufacturing. 
3,043 
i 561 
84.43 
15.57 
948 
f 451 
J 348 
1 194 
I 76 
62 
45.60 
21.69 
16.74 
9.33 
3.66 
2.98 
646 
228 
8 
122 
44 
52.65 
18.56 
15.24 
9.94 
3.59 
307 
214 
79 
68 
25 
44.30 
30.89 
11.39 
9.81 
3.61 
14 
82 
9 
7 
735 
1.65 
9.68 
1.06 
.83 
86.78 
14 
82 
9 
7 
42 
9.09 
53.24 
5.84 
4.56 
27.27 
3,604 
Total. . . . 
100 
2,079 
100 
1,227 
100 
847 
100 
693 
100 
154 
100 
For a closer view of this occupational phase of the study, the 
occupations followed by the descendants of one farmer were tabulated. 
(See Table XL) Farming is found to rank high among the members 
of this family, though none of the other groups of occupations are 
unrepresented. 
Table XI. — Occupations selected by descendants of Edward Barney, farmer. 
Occupations. 
Generations. 
Second. 
Third. 
Fourth. 
Fifth. 
SLxth. 
Seventh. 
Farming 
6 
13 
13 
7 
10 
10 
11 
2 
5 
4 
3 
5 
1 
Public service 
Professions 
6 
10 
11 
3 
Commerce 
Manufacturing 
2 
