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is a prominent feature of American political life, this 

 larger cooperation of county activities is necessary. 



Larger Cooperation between City and Country. 

 We have made scarcely a beginning in bringing together 

 city and country. The need is felt particularly in the 

 relations of the small country city or county seat situ- 

 ated in a farming region. It is mischievous to permit 

 the continuance of those antagonisms that do prevail. 

 In the New Day there is no place for sharp class dis- 

 tinctions. The larger cooperation must involve all in- 

 terests, all classes, all peoples. 



The World as a Field for the Larger Cooperation. 

 There are those who have been pleading for some 

 while that not only American agriculture, but world 

 agriculture, must be thoroughly organized. The war 

 has forced this problem upon us whether we will or no. 

 We can no longer remain immune to what European 

 countries or South American countries or Asiatic coun- 

 tries are doing in agriculture. The International In- 

 stitute of Agriculture in Rome was a sincere and far- 

 sighted effort to provide a clearing-house for world 

 agricultural interests. Why not use it as the nucleus 

 of comprehensive world organization for agriculture? 



We must not devote our energies and thought wholly 

 to the business or economic side of agriculture. The 

 great human interests of farmers as a class and as a 

 part of the world democracy must be taken into con- 

 sideration. Before the war there were the beginnings 

 of a very distinct call for agricultural missionaries to 

 go into backward agricultural countries like Turkey and 

 India. The result of this war ought to be the organi- 

 zation of a world agricultural mission. The countries 

 that will emerge from the war well organized, forward- 

 looking, competent, should pool their agricultural in- 



