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Jessie Fields, Superintendent of Page County, Cla- 

 rinda, Iowa; A. D. Holloway, General Secretary, 

 County Y. M. C. A., Marysville, Kansas ; Dr. Myron 

 T. Scudder, of Rutgers College; Doubleday, Page 

 & Company, Garden City, New York ; Rural Man- 

 hood, New York City ; The Farmer's Voice, Chicago, 

 Illinois ; The American Agriculturist, New York City ; 

 The Oklahoma Farmer, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; 

 The Inland Farmer, Lexington, Kentucky; The 

 Farmer's Advocate, Winnipeg, Canada. 



My thanks are also due Successful Farming, of 

 Des Moines, Iowa, for permission to use excerpts 

 from President Kirk's article on the model school, 

 and portions of a series of brief articles written for 

 the same magazine by myself. 



The references given at the close of the chapters 

 have been selected with considerable care. It will 

 be found in nearly every case that they give help- 

 ful and more extended discussions of the several 

 topics treated in the preceding chapter. 



WILLIAM A. McKEEVER. 



MANHATTAN, KANSAS. 



