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The Agricultural Shift 



THE condition of agriculture and country 

 life in North America has been modified 

 by three great shifts, — the shift in geograph- 

 ical location, in methods of practice, and in 

 institutions. Some of the more obvious 

 features of these shifts we must briefly 

 examine. 



THE GEOGRAPHICAL SHIFT IN RURAL 

 OCCUPATIONS 



Both the necessity for governmental inter- 

 ference and the nature of the interference are 

 conditioned on the status of the rural indus- 

 tries at any particular time. We are all aware 

 that we live in a time of great shift. The 

 center of population is moving westward, and 

 there is movement from country to city. 

 Remote lands in the East tend to lose in 

 population, and remote lands in the West 

 tend to gain in population. There are still 



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