AGRICULTURAL

Those who have studied economics realize that the most important communities in the country are those where agriculture is the lead­ ing industry, for from the fanner and his work comes the food supply of the world. No matter what inventive genius brings forth as a substi­ tute, the health and very life of a nation depend upon the faithful tilling of the soil by those who are devoting their years to agricultural pursuits.

In the more congested communities, various commercial enterprises flourish, and necessarily so, but in proportion to population, the result of the farmer's labor far outclasses that of any other laborer, or producer.

Bearing these facts in mind, it is readily understandable why Coe township is so important a division of Rock Island county. Here the agriculturist reigns supreme. Valuable farms, carefully cutivated. for the most part by the owners of the property, prevail. There are no towns or villages within its confines, and its people, surrounded by the healthy, normal conditions of a rural life, spend their busy years profitably, and bring up their children to be good, honest, reliable men and women

 

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