THE CHALLENGE OF AGRICULTURE 



CHAPTER I 



EARLY FARMER ORGANIZATIONS 



From time immemorial men have shown a 

 disposition to band themselves together in 

 groups. Sometimes the group has been a 

 family, sometimes a tribe, sometimes a nation, 

 or again the group has been a still larger unit. 

 Always nations have found their citizens united 

 in sections, formed on the basis of occupation 

 or of temperament. In more recent years such 

 sub-grouping has been especially marked, but 

 more or less it has persisted as far back as 

 historic record furnishes us accurate evidence. 



Always when a group has become so marked 

 that it attracts special attention there has been 

 found some cause to which the observer can point 

 as the force which has drawn the members 

 together. Now it has been an expedition against 

 another people for the sake of plunder or revenge ; 

 again it has been a coming together for self- 

 preservation from an aggressive foe; or still 



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