How We Are Fed: A Geographical Reader

HOME AND WORLD SERIES
DEPARTMENT OF GEOGRAPHY, STATE NORMAL SCHOOL LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA New York THE MACMILLAN COMPANY LONDON: MACMILLAN & CO., Ltd. 1912

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Copyright, 1903, By THE MACMILLAN COMPANY. Set up, electrotyped, and published June, 1903. Reprinted January, June, August, 1904: July, 1905; January, 1906; August, December, 1907; September, 1909; August, 1910; August, 1911; June, 1912.
Norwood Press J. S. Cushing & Co.—Berwick & Smith Co. Norwood, Mass., U. S. A.

In the ordinary course of events, most individuals take some part in the manifold industries which engage the mind and the hand of man, by which alone our present-day civilization can be maintained. These great world activities touch the daily life of every member of society, whether child or adult, worker or idler.
A chain of mutual dependence, too often unrecognized, binds together the members of the human family, whether they belong to the same community or dwell on opposite sides of the earth. The links of this chain are made up of the articles which constitute our daily food, our clothing, homes, fuel, light, our means of communication and transportation, and only by continuous coöperation are they kept together.