Illinois Institute for Rural Affairs
Making a Difference in Rural Illinois
A Foundation for Sustainable Rural Community Development
Remedies
From The Report of the Country Life Commission (text) (p. 15):
- Encourage continuous surveying of all agricultural regions.
- Encouragement of a system of extension work of rural communities through all the land-grant colleges with the people at their homes and on their farms.
- A thoroughgoing investigation by experts of the middleman system of handling farm products, coupled with a general inquiry into the farmer’s disadvantages in respect to taxation, transportation rates, cooperative organizations and credit, and general business systems.
- Establishment of a highway engineering service, or equivalent organization, to be at the call of the states in working out effective and economical highway systems.
- An inquiry into the control and use of the steams of the United States with the object of protecting the people in their ownership and of saving to agricultural uses such benefits as should be reserved for these purposes.
- Establishment of a system of parcels post and postal savings banks.
