The Farmer and His Community

Project Gutenberg's The Farmer and His Community, by Dwight Sanderson This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: The Farmer and His Community Author: Dwight Sanderson Release Date: August 19, 2009 [EBook #29733] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE FARMER AND HIS COMMUNITY *** Produced by Tom Roch, Barbara Kosker, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net. (This file was produced from images produced by Core Historical Literature in Agriculture (CHLA), Cornell University.) THE FARMER AND HIS COMMUNITY BY DWIGHT SANDERSON PROFESSOR OF RURAL SOCIAL ORGANIZATION CORNELL UNIVERSITY NEW YORK HARCOURT, BRACE AND COMPANY COPYRIGHT, 1922, BY HARCOURT, BRACE AND COMPANY, INC. PRINTED IN THE U. S. A. BY THE QUINN & BODEN COMPANY RAHWAY, N. J. [Pg v] EDITOR'S PREFACE In the "good old days" of early New England the people acted in communities. The original New England "towns" were true communities; that is, relatively small local groups of people, each group having its own institutions, like the church and the school, and largely managing its own affairs. Down through the years the town meeting has persisted, and even to-day the New England town is to a very large degree a small democracy.