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Living in a Small City and on a Farm Offer Friendship and Security
The piece contrasts life in large cities with a preferred American small town where neighbors care for one another and no one is alone. It then argues for farm life, citing farmer families having more to eat and steadier livelihoods even in hard times, highlighting O. E. Baker of the U S Department of Agriculture.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Banker Brown
Drayman Stine
Sam Plover
Willie
O. E. Baker
U. S. Department of Agriculture