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the market means high-class products. This 

 means intensive agriculture. Intensive agricul- 

 ture means education and intelligence. The 

 cities are growing. Their power of consumption 

 is steadily and rapidly increasing. 



(4) The unusual social equipment. It must 

 be remembered that in an area but little larger 

 than Iowa, which has one agricultural college 

 and one agricultural experiment station and no 

 Granges to speak of, New England has, in com- 

 parison, six agricultural colleges, six experiment 

 stations, six boards of agriculture, over a thou- 

 sand Granges, and numerous agricultural socie- 

 ties. The means of agricultural education in 

 New England are more numerous and may be 

 more efficient than in any other portion of this 

 country of similar area. Moreover, the cities 

 are now in a position to help solve the problem 

 in New England. They have leaders. There 

 are in them men with leisure and talent who are 

 interested in this problem and who are willing 

 to help solve it. 



(5) The sentimental side. A campaign for 

 rural progress, with New England as the unit, 

 ought to arouse the pride and enthusiasm of all 

 the sons and daughters of New England who still 

 have the privilege of living within her borders, 



