70 The State and the Farmer 



does not argue against the necessity of still 

 more knowledge. As much as we have learned, 

 all the great fundamental problems of rational 

 agriculture are yet unsolved, and many of them 

 are not even explored. Great as our lack is in 

 these directions, it is perhaps even greater in 

 the social and cooperative lines: the great 

 country problems are now human rather than 

 technically agricultural. 



(2) Need of governmental protection, where- 

 by the disabilities that are not a part of his 

 business may be removed from the farmer. 

 Governmental protection and control are least 

 applicable and least effective in the farming 

 country, and the farmer has more burdens to 

 carry than those pertaining to the rearing of 

 crops and animals and to the contest with 

 climate and weather : some of these handicaps 

 will be removed or their effects minimized in 

 the future (page 81). 



Corollary to this is the lack of any kind of 

 organized supervision over country living. For 

 example, there is no continuing oversight of 

 public health in the farming country, except a 



