266 THE FARMER AND THE NEW DAY 



fying. This larger national cooperation is therefore 



indispensable for the New Day. 



Larger Cooperation in the State. The same need 

 exists in every state for this getting-together of the agri- 

 cultural interests the state board or department of 

 agriculture, the department of education, the agricul- 

 tural college, the farm bureaus, the Grange, the Farm- 

 ers' Union and all other voluntary organizations. It 

 would be well if in each state there could be the equiva- 

 lent of an agricultural development committee com- 

 posed of the official representatives of all state-sup- 

 ported agencies charged with work on behalf of agri- 

 culture, to outline plans for studying and mapping the 

 agricultural resources of the state, m^ke a program for 

 the development of agriculture and country life and 

 suggest methods of securing the cooperation of the 

 various agencies. Beyond this, there should be a fed- 

 eration of rural agencies, to include not only the pub- 

 lic institutions, but the voluntary associations of farm- 

 ers and others interested in rural affairs. 



Larger Cooperation in the Community. No other 

 form of effort to organize agriculture and to make it 

 efficient will reach its full power, unless in every one 

 of the 50,000 possible rural communities we have the 

 people working together and thinking together and 

 talking together and planning together and acting to- 

 gether, for every common purpose of their common 

 need and for a common contribution to state, national 

 and world welfare. 



Larger Cooperation in the County. County councils 

 of agriculture and country life might well be instigated 

 by the county farm bureaus, but should not be subor- 

 dinate to them ; for the farm bureau is only one of many 

 agencies in most counties. But wherever the county 



