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Rus a biographical register of rural leadership in the United States and Canada

"Rus is intended to be a register of rural leadership, in the persons of living men and women. It aims to include those persons who are prominently engaged in rural work, and in whom the public has reason to be interested, as farmers, teachers, investigators, business men, lecturers, ministers, farm, county and home demonstration agents, authors, editors, and the leading personalities in the administrative, commercial, cooperative, organizational, political and public-service fields as they directly influence agriculture and country life. By the term 'farmer' is meant all those who till the soil for a livelihood, as general farmers and ranchers, stockmen, poultrymen, beekeepers, fruit-growers, floriculturists, gardeners, nurserymen, and the many kinds of specialists; it is not intended to include persons because they are good farmers but only as they are charged with public interest. The staffs of colleges of agriculture and of experiment stations have been included above the grade of Instructor or its equivalent, in case the title indicates that the person is engaged in the agricultural side of the work. The volume is a book of reference, and does not pass on the merits of the work or activities of any person"--Statement, p. 3.

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