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A farmer can organize his business so that he gets the 

 maximum use of his capital and his labor, his time and 

 his energy; only so does the greatest efficiency result. 

 The housewife may follow similar methods in the 

 home. The large association is well organized or 

 poorly organized, depending upon whether it uses the 

 powers tied up in it by reason of people cooperating, or 

 whether it fails to develop a big plan and to get every- 

 body working to carry out the plan. Schools, colleges, 

 churches, societies, communities, governments, busi- 

 nesses may be well organized or poorly organized, ac- 

 cording to the extent to which they succeed in gaining 

 the intelligent cooperation of all the elements available 

 for attaining their ends. It is organization in this 

 newer meaning of the word, supplementing education, 

 that holds the key to the success of the farmer in the 

 New Day. 



Let us consider briefly some of the more important 

 applications of the principle of organization to rural 

 affairs. 



I. THE BETTER ORGANIZATION OF EXISTING AGENCIES 



Each institution or associated effort devoted to rural 

 improvement should seek the highest possible efficiency. 

 It needs to take an account of stock and to discover 

 whether the New Day makes new demands upon it. 

 The great established institutions like the school, the 

 farmers' organizations, the church, and government it- 

 self, must still be the main reliance of rural effort, now 

 and for all time, but with a new sense of social responsi- 

 bility that will call for vastly increased effort and pos- 

 sibly almost complete reconstruction. 



Each institution therefore needs to seek the most effi- 

 cient organization for itself. It is a serious matter 



