DEFICIENCIES 19 



his transactions limited; and he usually stands 

 practically alone against organized interests. In 

 the general readjustment of modern life due to 

 the great changes in manufactures and com- 

 merce, inequalities and discriminations have 

 arisen, and naturally the separate man suffers 

 most. The unattached man has problems that 

 government should understand. 



The reasons for the lack of a highly organized 

 rural society are very many, as the full Report 

 explains. The leading specific causes are : 



A lack of knowledge on the part of farmers 

 of the exact agricultural conditions and 

 possibilities of their regions; 



Lack of good training for country life in 

 the schools; 



The disadvantage or handicap of the 

 farmer as against the established business 

 systems and interests, preventing him from 

 securing adequate returns for his products, 

 depriving him of the benefits that would 

 result from unmonopolized rivers and the 

 conservation of forests, and depriving the 

 community, in many cases, of the good that 

 would come from the use of great tracts 

 of agricultural land that are now held for 

 speculative purposes; 



Lack of good highway facilities; 



