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EXPLANATION 



The Report of the Commission on Country 

 Life was published as Senate Document No. 

 705, 60th Congress, 2d Session, for the use of 

 Congress. It has not been available for popular 

 distribution. The Spokane Chamber of Com- 

 merce has reprinted it, for use in the country 

 life movement in the Northwest. 



The Report is now placed in the hands of a 

 regular book publisher, as one means of making 

 an accessible record of the findings and recom- 

 mendations of the Commission. If profits accrue 

 to the Commission from the sale of the book, 

 they will be devoted to public country life work. 



L. H. BAILEY, 

 For the Commission. 



ITHACA, N. Y., September 20, 1910. 



