Show 01 1 ive S 1 X U p CU released by united service bureau 1 LOS ANGELES august 1927 1027 we hear a great reat deal about the tendency of the younger generation to leave the farms and ranches for the cities and metropolitan centers this is is a serious question and one worthy of thought but it would seem that in 1 practically every era the same problem has confronted agriculture and animal husbandry in the writings of abraham cowley coriey CovI ey early in tv the e seventeenth century it is pointed out that the trend odthe young people was from the rural districts to the cities i and this situation seems to have con conj j linued down through four hundred years following cowleys cowlens Cow leys time cowley was a great beli believer ever m in agriculture ri and animal liusa husbandry andry as the basis of all things and as he so aptly put it the innocence of this life is the thi thine for which it and if husbandmen husband nion preserve not ihl that I 1 they are much to blame for no class is is free from temptations of iniquity in looking back to the time of the cowley writings it is observed that while during each generation the problem I 1 of keeli keeping the younger people in kae he pursuits of agriculture has hag arisen aifsen still turing during all of this time there has j j never been a when there was wasa I 1 not ample personnel available to carry on agriculture and animae husbandry I 1 no doubt such a time never will vill come i as it is simply a case of ca each genera I tion distributing itself into the walks of life to which each individual is best fitted A great deal has been said of the trend of population from the farms to the city but we hear very little of the movement of population from the city to the farms faring and no doubt therea there is such a movement constantly under way the selection of an occupation by members member of families in agriculture is much the same as that of families in the metropolitan districts and of course in these selections each individual is more or less of a law unto himself that is the son of the farmer may choose a position in a bank in a city or the son of a hanker banker in a city may choose agriculture as ids his work the more general agricultural education now available in the schools and colleges has brought about a better balance to this situation and cowley may again be quoted in this connection as stating that he could wish that one college in each university were dedicated to agriculture as well as those to medicine engineering law faw etc this has come about to a large extent extent and through proper training has raised the standard of ff imra ivia in an fn rural communities to an extent wh which is much more attractive than the average cosmopolitan surroundings s due to this the tendency of the younger people is to remain with agriculture and in a great many instances city bred people are turning to it and livestock husbandry as a profession |