> perhaps they had no desire to continue farming like their parents. I think it is also that making a living in farming became harder. I had an ancestor who wa

> perhaps they had no desire to continue farming like their parents. I think it is also that making a living in farming became harder. I had an ancestor who was a small farmer in the 1880s-90s, and his career was one of increasing prosperity. His son worked just as hard but it was a struggle, and he eventually lost the farm in the late 1920s and went to work at a factory.