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of farm homes. Agricultural papers, religious 

 papers, and even dailies find multitudes of in- 

 telligent readers among farmers. 



With the advent of better highways, electric 

 car lines, rural free delivery, and the rural tele- 

 phone, each of which is looming on the horizon 

 as an important feature of American farm life; f. 

 with the Grange or similar organization in every 

 school district; with the development of courses 

 for women at all our colleges of agriculture, and 

 the logical complement of such courses in the 

 form of college extension — farmers' institutes, 

 reading-courses, traveling libraries, lecture and 

 correspondence courses — we shall find farm life 

 taking on a new dress, and perhaps farmers' wives 

 may come to enjoy the envy of those women who 

 are unfortunate enough not to have married 

 farmers. 



