studies may be projected from year to year, — studies 

 of the industries, the homes and domestic welfare, 

 the sanitation, education, business cooperation, the 

 possibilities of engineering development, the re- 

 ligious reactions, re-creation, child-study, special 

 vital statistics, ethnological and historical studies, 

 public relations, and the general social welfare. 



These surveys will be made by many agencies. 

 The strictly agricultural parts will naturally be ac- 

 complished by colleges and schools and departments 

 of agriculture and by experiment stations. Societies, 

 churches, individuals, and all agencies representing 

 welfare will contribute and cooperate. 



Ever}^ State must soon face the problem of pro- 

 jecting a regular program of stock-taking of its agri- 

 cultural resources. If the work is effective, it must 

 be wholly free of political methods. 



Forecast 



I have now sketched a rough outline of my hope 

 in the country-life survey. Looked at from the start, 

 it may seem to be an ambitious program; but it will 

 come only year by year and piece by piece, and no- 

 body will be startled in the process. It will be for- 

 tunate if we have a clear conception at the outset of 

 the results that are to be desired, and if our work pro- 

 ceeds in an orderly way. We must conceive a prog- 



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