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and the people who live in the country, in order 

 to take stock of our resources and to supply 

 the farmer with local knowledge. Federal and 

 state governments, agricultural colleges and other 

 educational agencies, organizations of various 

 types, and individual students of the problem, 

 should be brought into cooperation for this great 

 work of investigating with minute care all agri- 

 cultural and country life conditions. 



2. Nationalized extension work. Each state 

 college of agriculture should be empowered to 

 organize as soon as practicable, a complete 

 department of college extension, so managed as 

 to reach every person on the land in its state, 

 with both information and inspiration. The work 

 should include such forms of extension teach- 

 ing as lectures, bulletins, reading-courses, cor- 

 respondence courses, demonstration and other 

 means of reaching the people at home and on 

 their farms. It should be designed to forward 

 not only the business of agriculture, but sanita- 

 tion, education, home-making, and all interests 

 of country life. 



8. A campaign for rural progress. We urge 

 the holding of local, state and even national 

 conferences on rural progress, designed to unite 

 the interests of education, organization and 

 religion into one forward movement for the 



