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BULLETIN 984, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
An analysis of the roll of students indicates not only that the ma- 
jority of students all through the years were sons and daughters of 
farmers living on farms, but that every farm save 13 in the 25 square 
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miles immediately surrounding Belleville furnished some students to 
the academy; while in a larger community of 225 square miles, which 
includes the smaller community, about 75 per cent of the farms fur- 
nished such students. In other words, there is a smaller community 
