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3. Arrange definite projects for improvement in a few 

 lines that seem most pressing and important. Determine what 

 it will cost to carry out these projects, either in some given 

 region or through China as a whole, and provide the money 

 necessary to make sure that the projects once started will be 

 carried through. 



4. Indicate what ^each agency can do to help in these 

 projects and how the results may be conserved. 



A program of this sort is more or less ideal, and it must 

 not be simply a paper plan. First of all, however, there must 

 be a paper plan, and then what is most pressing and what is 

 within range of carrying out should be agreed upon for the 

 immediate projects. 



As a practical suggestion it is recommended that there be 

 held under proper auspices in the near future a national 

 conference on agriculture and country life and that the first 

 steps be taken to form an agricultural program for all China. 

 This conference should include representatives of the govern- 

 ment, of government and private educational institutions, and 

 of any organizations or associations that are actively at work, 

 and should possibly include business men interested. It might 

 be well if the foreign experts now in China should be asked to 

 help. The results of this conference ought to be an encourage- 

 ment to have annual national and provincial conferences, as 

 well as the establishment of a permanent national council of 

 agriculture. 



C. The Development of the Chinese Farm Village 



In order to make the comprehensive program really 

 practical, some means must be found to reach the working 

 farmers with the best advice available and to stimulate them to 

 act upon the advice. The best way to achieve this is to make 

 the fullest possible development of the farm village the very 

 core and center of the agricultural movement in China. Let us 

 consider some of the elements of an aggressive village 

 movement. 



1. It is important numerically. It will be convenient to 

 classify Chinese population somewhat as follows: 



The farm hamlet,, consisting of from 3 to 4 families up to 

 50 families. 



The farm village, consisting of 50 to 500 families. (This 

 village is usually, though not always, a market village. ) 



