. Community civics . thes the World.— This is the great economic contract which thecountry has undertaken to tulfiU. The world looks to the country for the supplyingof most of the necessaries of life. The wheat, corn,cotton, wool, beef, pork, milk, eggs, and cheeseupon which the world feeds and clothes itself owetheir origin to the work of country folks. Theshoes have gone through many processes of manu-facturing since they left the steers back in theeastern St. Louis packing house, but there was atime when this steer was quietly feeding on a pros-perous farm in Kansas. The eggs have beenhandl
. Community civics . thes the World.— This is the great economic contract which thecountry has undertaken to tulfiU. The world looks to the country for the supplyingof most of the necessaries of life. The wheat, corn,cotton, wool, beef, pork, milk, eggs, and cheeseupon which the world feeds and clothes itself owetheir origin to the work of country folks. Theshoes have gone through many processes of manu-facturing since they left the steers back in theeastern St. Louis packing house, but there was atime when this steer was quietly feeding on a pros-perous farm in Kansas. The eggs have beenhandled and rehandled, shipped, stored, and sold,but the hens that laid them are still at work in Mis-souri. It is a long way from a calico dress, throughthe clothing manufacturer, the cotton manufacturer,the cotton warehouse, the railroad, and the cottonwarehouse back to the cotton helds of Texas, but itwas in those cotton fields that the cotton from whichthe calico was made grew. 174 COUNTRY AS LIFE GIVER TO WORLD 175. tt M 1^ H ^m S^ |^^3 S^S ^.Ilxi^- -^Ww^^w^ ^S ^5 ^S Ki #* E w^i^^^l^^fe- ^8 The country feeds and clothes the world. 176 COMMUNITY CIVICS Stop in at the ^^•holesale market of any large cityfrom New York to San Francisco, and you \\illsee the products of the country which are beingbrought in and distributed to the consumers in thecitv, — dairy products, fruit, vegetables, and coun-try products like wheat, manufactured into flour,cereals, and other eatable and wearable city reaches all oyer the world for the thingsnecessary to its support. Its immediate food sup-plies are drawn from the surrounding country. Milkcannot be carried more than a tew hundred miles;green vegetables are usually grown close at hand ;grain crops can be transported for long distances,but whether the city depends upon the near-by orthe distant farm, it lives upon the products of thecountry life. The farmer frequently sells his product directlyto the city consumer. He drives his m
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