THE EXHIBITIONIntroduction Biography Botany Horticulture NY State College of Agriculture Cornell University Nature Study Education of Women Commission on Country Life 1908 Roosevelt Letter Circular W. E. B. DuBois Letter 1908 Country Life Commission Report Outlook Magazine 1910 Taft Letter 1909 Roosevelt Letter Country Life Movement Hortorium Photography Writings Travel |
COMMISSION ON COUNTRY LIFEIn 1908, President Theodore Roosevelt appointed a Commission on Country Life, with Bailey as its chair. Bailey described the country life movement as “the working out of the desire to make rural civilization as effective and satisfying as other civilization. ” The Commission held thirty public hearings throughout the country, circulated over half a million brief questionnaires, and held numerous other meetings. Its report, edited by Bailey, was printed in 1911 and republished in 1944. The Commission offered three recommendations: a nationalized extension service, which was formalized by the passage of the Smith-Lever Act in 1914; continuing fact-finding surveys, fostering the development of agricultural economics and rural sociology in universities and the federal government; and a campaign for rural progress. Numerous state conferences were held, and in 1919, the American Country Life Association was founded.
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This exhibition is made possible through a generous gift in memory of Lelah A. Cole.
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