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vidcd into six or eight of these natural regions or zones 

 in which the economic problems of the farmers are sim- 

 ilar. This process has already developed in a partial 

 way. For example, the South has unified her agricul- 

 tural enterprises to a considerable degree. The South 

 has probably made greater progress in agriculture in 

 the last 15 or 20 years than has any other part of our 

 country, and we believe it is due partly to the organized 

 endeavors of the southern people as a group. 



8. The Nation. This is the culminating form of 

 rural organization as applied to a region. It simply 

 means, as has been said before, that we should regard 

 the seven million farms of the country as one big farm, 

 and the seven million farmers as one big family. The 

 farmer cannot play his part in the New Day unless 

 American agriculture as a whole is thoroughly organ- 

 ized, with adequate policies and programs and with ma- 

 chinery for securing the cooperation of all concerned. 

 This, too, will be the subject of a chapter by itself. 



9. Urban and Rural. We must find a method by 

 which the industrial and commercial interests of the city 

 may strike hands with the interests of the farmers, 

 through some form of organization which will place 

 these two interests in the proper relation one to the 

 other and secure their fullest cooperation. 



10. The World. The idea of a world organization 

 of agriculture is not new. Its first prophet was David 

 Lubin, who planned the International Institute of Agri- 

 culture in Rome. The war has made imperative what 

 to many before the war seemed like a dream. We 

 shall be obliged to recognize the world's interest in the 

 control and use of the land as a source of food supply. 

 The land problem in Russia is the fundamental problem 

 of Russian democracy. Russia is rural, of course; but 



