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which should seek to bring to a common platform all 

 the activities of the associated efforts that are already 

 at work or that may develop on behalf of rural educa- 

 tion, the rural home, adequate recreation, health and 

 sanitation, country planning, and morals and religion. 



7. In some way the interests of the city, not only of 

 consumers but also of urban agricultural business inter- 

 ests, should be recognized in order that they may be 

 brought into intimate touch with the farmers and the 

 agricultural agencies. We cannot make progress in 

 the New Day unless the agricultural interests in food 

 production and distribution are tied up with the inter- 

 ests which the rest of the world have in the agricultural 

 industry. 



8. Establish a National Council of Agriculture and 

 Country Life that will be a conferring and deliberating 

 body, large enough to be thoroughly representative of 

 all public as well as voluntary agencies. It should be 

 small enough for deliberate counsel. The National 

 Council of Agriculture and Country Life would not 

 commit any of its members to policies subversive of 

 their interests as they see them. It would simply be a 

 central body which, by its careful deliberations, by its 

 wide representation, and by the breadth and scope of its 

 purposes, would be considered by the farmers them- 

 selves, by Congress, and by the world at large, as the 

 responsible spokesman for the best thought and purpose 

 in American agriculture and country life. 



THE FARM PRESS 



The agricultural press is an exceedingly important 

 factor in rural advancement. As a rule, it deals thor- 

 oughly and adequately with problems of production. 

 Certain agricultural papers have for many years cov- 



