"The Abandoned Farmers" is a humorous book based on the author's personal experience of living a farm life. The author and his wife, both citizens, decided to return to land, yet the picturesque rural life was not as simple as they expected. The couple had to learn that the age of motor cars, telephones, and instant suburbs has made distant rural properties not so peaceful, and the thoughts of returning to cozy apartments could be too tempting to resist.