A rural survey in Maryland, made by the Department of church and country life of the Board of home missions of the Presbyterian church in the . e in good repair, the farmbuildings are ample in size and well put up, and the whole impressionis that of good farm-keeping. The small negro settlements, the tenanthouses, and the cross-road stores seldom contribute very materiallyto the beauty of the scene, but there is some compensation in the con-trasts afforded. In at least one respect, the county seems prodigal. The investigatorscame from that part of the world where farmers consider two
A rural survey in Maryland, made by the Department of church and country life of the Board of home missions of the Presbyterian church in the . e in good repair, the farmbuildings are ample in size and well put up, and the whole impressionis that of good farm-keeping. The small negro settlements, the tenanthouses, and the cross-road stores seldom contribute very materiallyto the beauty of the scene, but there is some compensation in the con-trasts afforded. In at least one respect, the county seems prodigal. The investigatorscame from that part of the world where farmers consider two horses ateam able to haul almost anything that you ought to load on a was an inspiring sight to them on almost every drive through thecountry to meet numbers of four and six horse teams, great, powerful-looking horses, hauling anything from a half-dozen sacks of wheat tolarge loads of grain or hay. Certainly it can not be said that the horsesare overworked. (e) Cooperative Tendencies in Farming One of the most obvious criticisms of rural life is its voluntary isola-tion, and the difi&culty of obtaining anything like cooperation among. THE SIX-HORSE HITCH19 the farmers in the matters which most vitally concern them. Very fewrural communities can be said to be adequately organized. In Mont-gomery County the first steps have been taken toward this adequateorganization. It is not our present purpose to discuss the social organi-zation of the various communities, though certain aspects of this, as theorganization into Farmers Clubs, have economic importance. We arehere interested in those forms of organization whose primary bearing iseconomic. (1) The Tobacco Growers Association. This association, which in-cludes the tobacco growers of Frederick, Howard, Carroll and Mont-gomery Counties, was organized seven years ago. A large part of itswork has been educational. It is in no sense an attempt to pool thetobacco output of these counties with a view to controlling the
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