 How did the children come to be at the Farm?
Nobody's been able to get near him for three weeks, and now at six o'clock this morning he decides he's leaving the Farm. The first was from Roberts Bros., announcing another shift of deadline on the book, and demanding the galley proofs two weeks earlier than scheduled. As director of psionic research at the Hoffman Medical Center, he had long since learned how administrative detail could suck up daytime hours. They were trying to study phenomena which made no sense, observing things that defied logic. "I want to see this famous Farm of yours up in Connecticut and see for myself how much pressure these experimental controls you keep talking about will actually bear.
 Some children are sent to the Farm by their parents for boarding school. Others are orphans and runaways.
 Dr. Lessing bought them from their parents.  Some children are sent to the Farm by their parents for boarding school. Others are orphans and runaways.  The children come from migrant and refugee camps.  Dr. Lessing bought them from human traffickers.