54 COMMISSION ON COUNTRY LIFE 



About 550,000 copies of the circular questions 

 were sent to names supplied by the United States 

 Department of Agriculture, state experiment 

 stations, farmers' societies, women's clubs, to 

 rural free deliverymen, country physicians and 

 ministers, and others. To these inquiries about 

 115,000 persons have now replied, mostly with 

 much care and with every evidence of good faith. 

 Nearly 100,000 of these circulars have been ar- 



desire is to get in touch with and represent the farmers them- 

 selves. The Commission now consists of five members. I shall 

 ask two more gentlemen to serve upon it, so that the full mem- 

 bership will be as follows: 



Professor L. H. Bailey, New York State College of Agriculture, 



Ithaca, N. Y., Chairman; 



Mr. Henry Wallace, Wallaces' Farmer: Des Moines, Iowa; 

 Kenyon L. Butterfield, President Massachusetts Agricultural 



College, Amherst, Mass.; 



Gifford Pinchot, U. S. Forest Service, Washington, D. C.; 

 Walter H. Page, of North Carolina, Editor of The World's Work; 

 Charles S. Barrett, Union City, Ga., and 

 William A. Beard, Sacramento, Cal. 



Again thanking you, and with all good wishes for your success 

 in this great and important work, believe me, 



Very sincerely yours, 



THEODORE ROOSEVELT. 



Professor L. H. Bailey, Chairman, 

 Commission on Country Life, 

 New York State College of Agriculture, 

 Ithaca, New York. 



