Excerpt from Papers and Proceedings, Eleventh Annual Meeting, American Sociological Society, Vol. 11: Held at Columbus, Ohio, December 27-29, 1916; The Sociology of Rural Life It is probable that no one uniform type of agricultural industry will be worked out. Adaptations will take place to a variety of conditions of soil, climate, access to markets. It is hard to imagine precisely the same unit of organization in the market-garden area of Long Island, the corn belt of Illinois and Iowa, the wheat sec tions of Montana and California, the apple valleys of Washington, and the cotton fields of Georgia. Nevertheless, there will develop a prevailing or characteristic method of exploiting the arable land of this country. If the nation is to survive, this method must be efficient and must contribute more than crops to the common welfare. NO suspension of the laws of nature, physical and human, is to be counted upon. Even Congress cannot protect the country side against the consequences Of ignoring these processes. To discover and to utilize purposefully the principles of the natural sciences, of economics, and of the other social sciences is the oppor tunity and duty of statesmanship. 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.