264 THE FARMER AND THE NEW DAY 



UNIFY AMERICAN AGRICULTURE 



It is wholly impossible for the farmers of America 

 to take their proper place in helping to solve the prob- 

 lems of reconstruction that are confronted at the very 

 threshold of the New Day, unless agriculture can pre- 

 sent a single front a unified purpose and an ag- 

 gressive program. It is necessary that the two main 

 groups of rural institutions, those supported out of the 

 public treasury, and the private or voluntary associa- 

 tions and organizations of various types should work 

 in closest harmony. There is an imperative call upon 

 the agencies of agricultural education to get together 

 at once not only to map an adequate program of agri- 

 cultural education, but to take steps to carry it out in 

 the spirit of a large unity. We should have a com- 

 prehensive and statesmanlike plan for the utmost de- 

 velopment of our rural school system, backed by the 

 farmers and coordinated with our system of agricul- 

 tural education. There is the same pressing need of 

 real unity and thorough-going cooperation among the 

 various farmers' organizations. The country life in- 

 terests should be federated. Anything short of this 

 full unification of rural forces will result in a partial 

 program. It will mean failure to meet the great ex- 

 igency. The fundamental need of the New Day is, 

 therefore: 



THE LARGER COOPERATION 



Much good can be done by partial effort. Groups 

 here and there, individual agencies, studying and plan- 

 ning and working, will accomplish much, but it is only 

 through the cooperation of all interests that the de- 

 mands of the New Day are to be met. 



