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Show England and South Atlantic States showed actual net increases in the T farm population, while other sections of the country showed losses, ' the greatest decrease in farm population being in the mountain states. ' Thus, while 2,075,000 persons left the farms last year, 1,396, 1 000 returned to them, and these, with the natural increase of births over deaths of 497,000, reduced the loss in farm population to j 182,000. j Although the balance is still in favor of cityward migration, the figures were held to show a back-to-the-farm movement. In 1922 the movement from city to farm was 880,000, which was 516,000 j fewer than in 1924, while the movement a.way from the farm was j 2,000,000, only 75,000 fewer than last year. j FARM POPULATION LESS DESPITE PROPAGANDA Although there has been much effort of late to start a back to the farm movement in America and economists have declared that there is an undoubted trend from city life to the farm, statistics furnished fur-nished by the Department of Agriculture show that the net farm population of the United States has decreased 182,000 5n the past year. The rural population of the country is placed at 3 J , 1 34,000 as against 31,316,000 for the year previous. The trend is not the same in all parts of the country. Jhe New |