Author: Horace Plunkett

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-10-30

Total Pages: 24

ISBN-13: 9780266988328

Excerpt from The Problem of Rural Life in the United States In this pronouncement we have in the minimum of words'the maximum of constructive suggestion. In the near background we see the picture of country life in its untutored, undisciplined and, consequently, unavailing competition With the modern town. In the foreground we see, through the application to the country of the methods to which the town owes its progress, the dawn of better things. But the central fact of these utterances I desire to emphasise is that, in the mind of the President, the situation to which he is calling public attention is clearly one of which the Department of Agriculture holds the key. Enlarged Functions for Federal and State Departments of Agriculture. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.