"My Boy Joshua"

Approximately 2,000,000 people left farming life for the cities in 1922, according to a report made by the Department of Agriculture based on a survey of 10,000 representative farm groups.

The estimate, which included not nerely workers, but men, women, and children living on farms, showed a decrease of 1.5% from the 1920 census which placed the agricultural population at 31,359,000.

The movement from farm to city was offset, however, by two compensating factors. One was the shift of about 880,000 persons from the towns to the land, and the other was the excess of births over deaths on farms, which reduced the net loss of the farming population to 460,000.