450 Missouri Agricultural Report. 



Running water, hot and cold, with power washing machines help 

 wonderfully. I have them and know. — Jefferson county. 



We built a new house last year, and put in running water and a 

 kitchen sink and a sewer to carry away the waste and water. It it one 

 of the greatest helps I have ever seen in doing up the housework.— 

 Madison county. ' , 



Would like to have a good cellar to keep milk, vegetables and fruit. — 

 Wayne county. 



In my opinion, the greatest improvement would be some invention 

 to help with the washing and other hard work. Help for the house is 

 very unsatisfactory and hard to get. — Clay county. 



Give me running water in the house, with regular, contented help at 

 good wages. — Clay county. 



Would like to have large porches instead of small porticos. — Cape 

 Girardeau county. 



RECOMMENDATIONS AND REVIEW. 



The foregoing figures, together with the personal replies, represent- 

 ing only a part of those received, are sufficient to give a valuable insight 

 into country conditions, or as it might be expressed, farming from the 

 farmers' viewpoint. 



Of first importance, and perhaps of greatest interest are some gen- 

 eral, and often overlooked, truths that are brought out in this farmer 

 folk's forum. One of these is that the student of rural conditions who 

 considers country people as apart from and differing from all others, 

 yet thinks of the dwellers in the rural districts not so much as indi- 

 viduals, but as a class, is making a mistake. 



Distinctions, measured in money, are perhaps not so marked among 

 country people as among dwellers in the crowded cities, for, in the main, 

 the country makes neither millionaires nor mendicants — just men. On 

 the other hand, as is indicated in the preceding pages of this bulletin, 

 quite as many and as widely divergent views are entertained by country 

 people as by the dwellers in the cities. This fact is familiar to all who 

 really know the farm, yet it is one that even some careful students of 

 country conditions fail to readily recognize. It would be a difficult 

 matter to determine the exact type of the typical farmer, yet the attempt 

 is often made. Some write of "The Country Woman," or choose a 

 similar caption while considering all mothers, wives and daughters in 

 country homes as belonging to practically the same class — a class differ- 

 ing radically from that found in the cities, yet, because of country con- 

 ditions, all having similar aspirations, tastes, hopes, talents and tasks. 



