Show report shows show s shift from farm to city some of the reasons why this country has changed from a nation of farmers to a nation of city workers are given in the annual report of the administrator agricultural adjustment administration the report points out that as late as 1870 more than half of the gainfully employed persons in the united states were in agriculture but that by 1930 the proportion had fallen to a little over a fifth this change says the report was due to a variety of causes underlying all of which have been advances in technology and invention such advances have almost invariably displaced farm labor and created industrial employment in the cities other causes listed include expansion of commercial and distributive tribu tive services as manufacturing and processing took precedence over cultivation of crops the report calls attention to the development of a division of labor in which farmers concentrated on raising foodstuffs and fibers while the city workers took over many of the other tasks formerly performed on self sufficient farms another cause of the shift noted in the report h has as been the increase in transportation I 1 communication and governmental s services which have become progressively more necessary with the growth of cities |