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upon the present status of the industry and the conditions surrounding 

 the people who live on the land. There should be a study of the 

 question of farm labor, as an example. The work should be exhaustive, 

 avoiding the temptation to do something fairly good, that represents 

 easy generalizations. To be worth while this work should be scientific 

 and final. 



The work should be planned on a permanent basis, not only because 

 of the immensity of the field, but because of the permanence of these 

 problems. The type of work should comprehend investigation which 

 should' be carried on continuously, carefully, and exhaustively along 

 all lines of rural social science. There should be in addition to this the 

 work of dissemination, or interpretation, of results through various 

 channels like scientific publications of details for the use of students 

 of social science, popular bulletins, and a somewhat extensive propa- 

 ganda by word of mouth. 



In the organization of work there should be set apart a 

 bureau or division in the Department of Agriculture, care being taken 

 to avoid duplicating work already under way in other divisions of the 

 department. It is very important that there should be ample funds 

 placed at the disposal of the bureau. There must be plenty of help, 

 for the work is very extensive. Adequate salaries should be paid and 

 there should be some cooperation with other agencies, as the Carnegie 

 Institution, with Universities and Colleges, Normal Schools and similar 

 institutions, boards or departments of agriculture and other state 

 boards and commissions which may be interested. 



SUMMARY. 



The recommendations which your Commission has the honor to 

 make are those which we believe should guide in the promotion, organi- 

 zation and prosecution of research in agriculture and which we regard 

 as essential to bringing about the conditions that all friends of agricul- 

 tural progress desire to see established. While these recommendations 

 are in the main quite general, we believe that there will be no difficulty 

 in discovering their force and manner of application. 



In order to give conciseness to the results of our deliberations they 

 are summarized briefly as follows : 



(i) Every effort should be made to promote the training of com- 

 petent investigators in agriculture both in the agricultural, and, so far 

 as practicable, in the non-agricultual, colleges and universities, and 

 their training should be as broad and severe as for any other field of 

 research. 



