CONTENTS 



INTRODUCTION 



CHAPTER PAGE 



I. The Study of Rural Life 3 



II. The Problems of Progress 11 



THE OUTLOOK 



III. The Expansion of Farm Life .... 45 



— IV. The New Farmer 53 



- V. Culture from the Corn-Lot 66 



AGENCIES OF PROGRESS 



-VI. Education for the Farmer 77 



VII. Farmers' Institutes 92 



VIII. The Hesperia Movement 104 



^ IX. The Rural School and the Community. . 121 



X. The Grange 136 



XI. Opportunities for Farm Women . . . 162 



XII. The Country Church and Progress . . 170 



XIII. A Summary of Recent Progress . . . 183 



FORWARD STEPS 



XIV. The Social Side of the Farm Question . . 199 

 XV. The Needs of New England Agriculture . 204 



XVI. An Untilled Field in American Education . 216 



XVII. Federation for Rural Progress .... 233 



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