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Show War Treks Fail To Lead Farm Youths to City Life in the armed forces, which introduced thousands of farm youths to glittering cities and faraway far-away lands, did not dim their love for farm life. More than a million veterans of World War II have returned re-turned to farm work throughout the nation, it is revealed in a bureau of agricultural economics report. Veterans on farms by July 1 totaled to-taled 1,045,000, according to the bureau bu-reau report, the number including 713,000 farm operators or members of farm operators' families, and 2,000 hired workers. Veterans comprised 9 per cent of all persons employed on the nation's farms. The number of veterans on farms was slightly more than three-fourths the number of farm workers who enlisted or were inducted up to July 1, 1945. In the Northeast and on the Pacific coast, the number of veterans returning re-turning to farms was larger than the number who entered the armed services. In other sections they were from 70 to 80 per cent. A total of 11 million was engaged in farm worK. |