| Show COMMISSION ON COUNTRY LIFE Its Report Transmitted to Con Congress Congress gress by President Who Makes Just One Recommendation APPROPRIATION OF May hl In II 11 NUt OL Co Cost Got 0 U a Cent t F Pu IThe president t to O the re me pt port of te the om on country life Hi His I In p part a as tol follow T ro t the h and d House of ta I herewith ti the rep report o of the on country U Ills At t the ot out outset tt set t I desire to pint point ot out tt that not Dot a or of th the money y 1 has been I pid paid t to al any cmor M fat b his wo on 00 the e commission mr T The report show w th the codi c t I ion n of farming ue USe In t the op open on ontI coon tI try an and points ot out ta 1 It ways lit W wh 10 gi ment national and d tate state I may I abow t the ppl peep bo bow to solve eole sees of t 18 imE and It a cuM at pan the wo work which un t thu M ha hapan 1 TIlE THE Judging by 3 30 public hearings 10 which far farmel and wives f from fo forty states tat and territories Ome came and fm from ItO answers to printed que ques tone tione sent nt out by the department of agriculture tit the commission finds that te the werl general level or of c country I life t Is Ie high with lh an any preceding UI time or wit with any oiher land Ir If It hu has In re recent cent years down in Ime seine places It b ham risen rhen In more Dimes It Its pro r glass lia his b been general It if not uniform Yet farmIng d does not yield either tM the or the satisfaction that It ought to yield RUI and mA may b be md made to Yield There is Ia discontent In the country and II Iii Fr Farmers s as asa a dM class p do not magnify tr their C ng and lh the movement t to the tOWI towns though I a am happy to lY say I lom than fleMy formerly la I still ar OF OP T The of th the commission on coon a atry try life therefore I I nt not to bout the I fa tanner re rl mis better cro crop Nt late to 0 mu hi his attention Unton the fe fec bettor bU ad hetI living on 1 the fam farm It If country 1 If lit hi to become w what It should bu h he and 4 what I ll bellow It IU IUm sill will wll ot of the meet m t dr ad and ways of earning II a r fanner usual take lake adva not oly only o of tk the all lur tural knowledge which I at b his 4 dupes a al but of tb the m which have r reload and d continue to r raise U the at stated ards dl of living ad and of Ic In eb ceilings Now ow whatever the state tt 1 stay 0 do to towa wa winit Improving the prUce practice ot of syrl oulu culture It I is lot lot withIn th lb sphere PM ag ot of alY any government to 10 ll the farmers bus business In or the theol ol 11 life o of farming communIties muRu It ItIs 1 Is however quito within 11 Its pwe power to 10 u use 1 its Influence an and the of publicity lt which It cn control for caln ceiling public to 01 Lbs M needa and nd t thu t facts lor For It I is t iii duty ut of the is call t M the or of tar farmer tot to the grew r In leg ot 01 water per perT power It T tr farmers above be iii U should 01 hw that power on bl taM Lanes fo for cheap pr f tot tl their b houses and aDd ton for Innumerable uses II Ii the dall daily luk ilk oa th f WiY WILY T ma foregoing will 1 I hop make It cleat wh why j 1 appoInted a tu to PI of faw Ut life have bay hl hitherto had tar t too Itie little 11 lion and t the lt o of which I has not at only bl held bk bark II Ill 1 in CUU country bt bitt al also lor Lowered the ot of t tim wb whole non The we welfare of U the farmer I ot of Ilal Q t to the welfare I 0 of t the whoM ho f The strength or of country Ut ff I the a strengthening of li the wi whole nation Pm Front al oil 11 that I has bl beau den l and hr r 1 and nd Ins medial iid ot of I U the li lila attend Wd OUt OI TIU OIT smut I fl farmers tu to Jt put t theta 01 on a le level wi withe U the urI organised 11 with wt which they r do b bIllo business Illo gerund a D new kl o of al I ii th the which bl 1 teach II the a 1111 moth Outdoors a Ioor indoors mud Id per r hp hips more a 0 Ll that Ibe they al alto a ill to for nt II tile ald nl net as si 1 I 11 for or lf III lit I IWI iowa Third better r or of u Lion Uon II sad a J par cig I pa which lh 1 U the 1 a ire eur I ad rightly ua I lam T To I beer m ma y I I s t lao better Ilon for cUll 11 Ien eases hold 14 I pass ste la ii Ute iii of UI health tJ ll Thu Tb ottly 1111 I It Is that an ai v of 3 MS be pro Ira to th tb to di I It t I material matutat It It has collected and andI I let ud and to much mere morp lost I within Its tta reach oh and the om corn Pie It ti work This would enable th the I I to gather In the harvest hArvell ot or otI I is from thi th I II It ha hats up T Tb torn om I hI hat without m I I d it not recommend for fir hut only fur t the that will nil it 55 to 10 tho task that thaI Ih have hae begun I warn m my that the great t tP P 1 md ms In city life is not a full tull of r our for our ct illation rest reet it at bottom on the tho whole the and the completeness as well wall as the t of life lite In the country The men and wo women on the farms for lor what Its III fundamentally hest sod and most needed In our life U Upon tile the develop metaL ment ot Of country II life tests ultimately our by methods of farmIng reo no tM the highest 1 to eon Un tints to feed sad and cloth the hungry n na nation tion to supply tb the olt city with fresh treah blood 0 clean bocI and clear brain that can endur the of modern m life wo we need the development or of men I in t the open country who will be In the future a la in the put peat the stay May end and strength of the nation nadon In time ot of Wr war end d Iii Ita guiding and controlling spirit In time of peace ce LT The White loue Peb leb 1901 |
