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THE BUSINESS OF FARMING 



38. Farming a Primary Industry. According to a recent 

 classification, there are about five hundred occupations 

 followed in the United States. These are grouped under 

 nine different headings : namely, Agriculture, Extraction 

 <it Minerals, Manufacturing Industries, Transportation, 

 Trade, Public Service, Professional Service, Domestic 

 Service, and Clerical Occupations. These are grouped 



FARMERS SHIPPING BY RAIL. 



again under three classes, Primary Industries, Secondary 

 Industries, and Personal Service. 



Farming has always been, and must always remain, a 

 primary industry. When agriculture declines, trade lags 

 and every other occupation sooner or later feels the effects. 

 True, farming is not the leading industry in every country, 

 or in all parts of our country. But this is only because 

 the farmer now finds it possible to ship his produce to 

 those in other pursuits even at great distances, and in this 

 way to relieve them of growing their own table supplies. 

 Thus Danish farmers supply the great city of London 



