uses may best be made of it. This in time will call for 

 large appropriations by state and nation. 



To secure these results, the Commission's first 

 recommendation is that ' ' there should now be organ- 

 ized, under government leadership, a comprehensive 

 plan for an exhaustive study or survey of all the con- 

 ditions that surround the business of farming 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, agri- 

 cultural colleges and other educational agencies, or- 

 ganizations of various tvDes, and individual students 

 of the problem should be brought into cooperation 

 for this great work of investigating with minute care 

 all agricultural and coimtry life conditions." 



The Scope and Character of Survey-work 

 Surveys may be of many kinds and for many 

 purposes. Some of them may be for temporary uses 

 only, in the nature of explorations or to set forth a 

 particular line of ideas. The real rural survey should 

 be an agency of record; and it is this type of effort 

 that I am now discussing. 



We must distinguish sharply between such a 

 survey, made slowly and studiously, and an inspec- 

 tion, a canvass, or a campaign. These lighter efforts 

 may be very necessary, but they usually do not con- 



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