A Proposed Survey of 1e4od-Us. for 
 
 
 
        me Farm 7.uudatla v    established ia 1933 by the late Alexader 
 
L   . to promote "the geneal welfare of the rural poulattio of the 
ited 
 
States of Amoeria in such ways as the Ba4 of Trusts m    from tin t time

d*ominow . 
 
        The Boar  of  rustees have askda* o 4 rocomo   ways in which sao=

 
an oreaniatio n     eontribute smethin of lasting value to the problem of

 
rural land-use. T   this en a survey of the field has be= authorlsed. 
 
        The survey Is prmised n three aseuptions: 
 
           (1) mhat there are in existence valuable Ieas which are as yet

               inarticulate, and that part of them are of suaeh a nature
ohat 
               other agenctes canot or will not act uep the*. 
 
           (2) mTat the fmatlen of the Srver is to tiscover and eepiloe 
 
               such Ieas feo the consi~e ation of the Boari of Trustees.

 
           (3) tat uch ideas are likely to be feuA, not onl amon   the 
 
              proefessions e  aly roOgised as dealing with lo      e-use
(such 
 
              as eosnmists, biologists#, aA sociologists), b uaisos other

              thiankes such as stioatorso, philosophers, 0eraphers, 
 
              historians, ecoloists, or even laen. 
 
        The survy is.t be completedi by May 15, 193~4. In ardoer to start

 
off with a conerete basis for disoussion, I have prepared the attached outline

 
of W own present line of thogt. 
 
        This is adittedly of a oasual nature, and luastered arount only that

 
categery of land-relationhips co   ly  nwn as   onversation. 
 
        Tou have been seed as one of a     mited list   persons who might

 
Sable to advtise the sav: