. The story of agriculture in the United States. heir last years, continuing to deny themselvespleasures and luxuries, much as they had done in earHeryears. It can readily be seen that the increased use of ma-chinery has helped the movement toward the city. Farm-ers sons and hired laborers found that their help was notneeded when machines did the work of human the same time there was a growing need and good payfor labor in the factories where these machines were beingmade, and in the business of selling them. So there wereboth good and poor reasons why the young people leftthe farm. O
. The story of agriculture in the United States. heir last years, continuing to deny themselvespleasures and luxuries, much as they had done in earHeryears. It can readily be seen that the increased use of ma-chinery has helped the movement toward the city. Farm-ers sons and hired laborers found that their help was notneeded when machines did the work of human the same time there was a growing need and good payfor labor in the factories where these machines were beingmade, and in the business of selling them. So there wereboth good and poor reasons why the young people leftthe farm. One of the poor reasons was based on the feeling thatthe artificial sights and surroundings of city life are RURAL LIFE 367 superior to the natural ones of the country. There were,and still are, those who think that an electric light ismore beautiful than a sunset; that shop windows aremore beautiful than trees and flowers; that crowdedstreets are more beautiful than the open fields; that oneof our modern plays is more beautiful than an out-door. Modern Farm Home pageant. Of course, they are mistaken, and in these daysmany people are gaining better ideas upon the subject. In fact, we now hear much of a movement in the otherdirection, back to the farm. City dwellers, tired offactory and office, are trying to become farmers, generallyspecializing in some product, such as poultry, berries, orvegetables. By the aid of the state governments, aban-doned farms in the East are being sold to numbers have gone to the Far West, attracted byaccounts of riches drawn from fruit orchards and irrigatedfarms. Many of these movers from city to country havemet disappointment; others have made a success of thenew Hfe. Certainly, there are ways in which the country 368 AGRICULTURE IN THE UNITED STATES is superior to the city. Here children Hve a more naturallife; here less of evil is to be seen, and here one may findinterest in a multitude of natures secrets of plant andanimal Hfe. T
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