APPENDIX I 



Extracts from two Articles published in The 

 Times of March 21 and 22, 1913. Reprinted by 

 permission. 



AGRICULTURE IN THE UNITED STATES. 



A COMMISSION TO VISIT EUROPE. 



Great interest is felt in the announcement reported 

 in a recent telegram that a large American country life 

 Commission will next summer visit Europe and Ireland. 

 The terms of reference under which the Commission 

 will work are as follows : — 



To inquire into the business organisations of agri- 

 culture in Europe. To examine the methods employed 

 by progressive agricultural communities in production 

 and marketing, and in the financing of both operations, 

 noting- — (a) the parts played respectively in the promo- 

 tion of agriculture by Governments and by voluntary 

 organisations of the agricultural classes ; (b) the applica- 

 tion of the co-operative system to agricultural produc- 

 tion, distribution, and finance ; (c) the effect of co-opera- 

 tive action upon social conditions in rural communities ; 

 (d) the relation of the cost of living to the organisation of 

 the food-producing classes. 



After showing the change in public opinion of 

 which this Commission is the outcome, the article 

 continues : 



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