sentences:  Younger workers could earn salaries, and industry was altering the economic and social landscape.The undervaluing of agricultural products, too, in comparison with industrial ones steadily thrust farming into rationalization with its consequent growth in farms' average size, or even forced some people to give farms up and shift to wage-dependent work.Of the 125 farming operations still in business in 1950, which employed 36.8% of the local workforce, only 73 were still in business in 1960.