46 ANNUAL EEPOFiTS OF DEPARTMENT OF AGFvICULTURE. 



ence should be called at the earliest possible date. It may be that, 

 as one outcome of it, the creation of a rural life commission, with a 

 temporary or a permanent status, will be determined to be in the 

 public interest. Certainly, the best means of fostering our basic 

 industry can not too frequently receive definite consideration by the 

 best minds of the Nation. 



Respectfully, 



D. F. Houston, 

 Secretary of Agriculture, 

 The President. 



