carefully watched and supervised, and he will receive as good 

 pay. Under these conditions, the institutes will endure. 



Taking stock 

 of country life. 



The best extension work must attack the fundamental 

 problems of country life, as well as merely the betterment 

 problems. We must have a thorough-going study of the 

 exact natural resources and conditions of all agricultural 

 regions, as I have already explained (page 7). Such a study 

 or survey must be very carefully planned and organized, and 

 on such a basis that it may proceed regularly year after year 

 until the entire state is discovered. Within this scheme should 

 be included, as component parts, all soil surveys, orchard sur- 

 veys, live-stock and dairy surveys, and whatever other syste- 

 matic studies are made of the products, industries, people and 

 institutions of the localities. For some years we have been 

 engaged in an agricultural survey of Tompkins county, and in 

 more partial surveys of other counties; these censuses afford 

 good experience on which to found a complete survey of the 

 State. 



The Commission on Country Life has recommended survey 

 work of the above character and extension work by the col- 

 leges of agriculture as two of the fundamental movements now 

 required for the permanent development of rural life. 



Teaching on farms. 



I regard certain kinds of demonstration work on farms as of 

 the greatest teaching value, if it is conducted by a good 



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