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ture of all other countries. This must be especially necessary 

 in a country with such huge farm interests as China possesses. 

 Her agricultural leaders, therefore, may well make a special 

 study of these wider agricultural relationships. 



Some Suggestions for Early Endeavor 



1. Provide more liberal and more certain financial support 

 for the agricultural schools and colleges already established. 



2. Insist upon a program of research that will get results 

 in terms of helping to solve some of the problems that trouble 

 the farmers and cause them loss. 



3. Provide means for reaching the working farmer with 

 a message that he can understand. Remember that the farmer is 

 the real object of all efforts in agricultural education. 



4. Have a national conference and permanent council to 

 discuss an all-China program of agricultural development, and 

 ways and means to carry out the program. 



5. Organize a "best- farm-village" program in each prov- 

 ince, and try to get at least 100 villages in each province to use 

 the program. 



6. Get the help of foreign agricultural experts now in China. 

 They are able men, ready and eager to help. 



7. Establish good village schools as rapidly as practicable. 

 This is vital. 



The Call for Chinese Leadership in Agricultural Affairs. 

 Apparently few educated men among the Chinese are paying 

 any serious attention to agriculture. But in every progressive 

 country agriculture is now the concern of economists, publi- 

 cists, and statesmen, and perhaps especially of business men, 

 and this must be true in China if the vital need for agricultural 

 development is to be met. There is a peremptory call for trained, 

 Chinese leaders to point the way toward the solution of the 

 many phases of this complex and important rural problem in 

 China. China needs a statesmanship of rural affairs. 



