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commercial and financial world are at the ser- 

 vice of the new farmer. Science, also, has found 

 a world of work in ministering to the needs of 

 agriculture, and in a hundred different ways 

 the new farmer finds helps that have sprung up 

 from the broadcast sowing of the hand of 

 science. 



But perhaps even more remarkable oppor- 

 tunities come to the new farmer in those social 

 agencies that tend to remove the isolation of the 

 country; that assist in educating the farmer 

 broadly; that give farmers as a class more influ- 

 ence in legislature and congress, and that, in 

 fine, make rural life more worth the living. The 

 new farmer cannot be explained until one is 

 somewhat familiar with the character of these 

 rural social agencies. They have already been 

 enumerated and classified in a previous chapter; 

 they will be more fully described in subsequent 

 chapters. 



It must not be supposed that every successful 

 farmer is necessarily a supporter of all of these 

 social agencies. He may be a prosperous 

 farmer just because he is good at the art of 

 farming, or because he is a keen business man. 

 But more and more he is coming to see that 

 these things axe opportunities that he cannot 



