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be able to make an accurate estimate of the percentage of each type or sub- 

 type which may be found in any given township, he will not undertake to 

 determine in detail regarding the soil of individual farms. He will, however, 

 undertake to define these soil types in such a way that every man of agricul- 

 tural intelligence will be able to recognize and name any type on his or any 

 other farm in the state. Dr. Coffey, who is to address you tomorrow, will 

 tell you more in regard to this soil survey work. 



* Since the above statement was made a cooperation with the U. S. D. A. 

 Bureau of Soils has been arranged whereby the survey will be completed within 

 the year 1912. 



THE STATE TOPOGRAPHICAL SURVEY. 



This completes the preparatory or foundation surveys which we have already 

 launched in the Department of Co-operation. We. shall, however, be greatly 

 assisted by the work of other institutions. Probably the most important of 

 these is the State Topographic Survey. I wonder if many of our people know 

 that the State of Ohio, in co-operation with the national government, is carrying 

 forward at a greater pace than any other state in the Union, a most remark- 

 able survey of the state, on the basis of which they prepare maps which may be 

 purchased at 5 cents per area, about the size of a county, on which are shown 

 accurately among other things the location of the streams, roads, lanes, farm 

 buildings, churches, schoolhouses and, by contour lines, the approximate eleva- 

 tion of every point in the area. If you will all procure a map of the area in 

 which you live or of those in which you are interested, we are sure that you will 

 join us in urging that the state continue its appropriation of $25,000 per year, 

 or increase it for that matter, so that the surveys may be entirely completed not 

 later than 1916. We certainly wish that they were all done now. We need 'them 

 badly in our work. Mr. C. E. Sherman, who is Professor of the college of 

 Civil Enginnering of the Ohio State University, is, by appointment of the gov- 

 ernor, the State Inspector in charge of this work. The water power survey of 

 the state which we understand Mr. Sherman is arranging to make, will be of 

 much value to farmers if they awake to the situation in time to see that this 

 power is conserved to their use. The road survey which has been made by the 

 State Highway Commission we have also found of special value in our field 



A COUNTRY LIFE SURVEY NEEDED. 



Another class of surveys which we hope to see taken" up very shortly are 

 those which bear on the life which is lived by country people. It has been said, 

 and we believe wisely, that the most valuable farm product is boys and girls 

 who will grow into thoughtful, steadfast citizens. We may make the farms of 

 Ohio profitable, a good place to live from a financial standpoint, but if we do 

 not make the farm homes good homes and the rural communities good com- 

 munities in which to raise boys and girls to manhood and womanhood, our work 

 may well be called a failure. The Rural Life Survey should go hand in hand 

 with the Farm Practice, Farm Management and Rural Economic Survey. Some 

 of the work which we have already taken up will have a bearing on these rural 

 life surveys, but we certainly hope that other institutions will throw the vast 

 resources of their organizations into the leadership of work of this character 

 in order that what little we do of it may, under their guidance, be well directed. 



THE RURAL CHURCH PROBLEM. 



Recognizing as we do the very great possibilities, perhaps largely unde- 

 veloped, of the country church as an instrument to solve this rural problem, 

 especially in evolving rural communities and developing rural leadership, we feel' 



