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conducted research shows that these poor people are 

 nearly all constituted of good, sound, human stock. 

 So, if transported under the conditions named, there 

 may be expected to come forth in the second genera- 

 tion a splendid crop of rural boys and girls. 



REFERENCES 



Report of the Commission on Country Life. Introduction by Theo- 

 dore Roosevelt. Sturgis- Walton Company, New York. A brief but 



epoch-making book. The student of rural problems will find it a 



splendid outline guide. 

 Cutting Loose from the City. E. G. Hutchins. Country Life, Jan. 1, 



1911. 



Back to the Farm. J. Smith. Cottier's, Feb. 15, 1911. 

 Value of a Country Education to Every Boy. Craftsman, January, 



1911. 



Why Back to the Farm ? Editorial. Craftsman, February, 1911. 

 The Country-Life Movement. L. H. Bailey. The Macmillan Co. 



Contains a contrast of the back-to-the-land movement and the 



country-life movement. 

 Drift to the City in Relation to the Rural Problem. J. M. Gillette. 



American Journal of Sociology, March, 1911. 

 The New Country Boy. Independent, June 22, 1911. 

 Overworked Children on the Farm and in the School. Dr. Woods 



Hutchinson. Annals American Academy, March, 1909. 

 Why One Hundred Boys ran away from Home. L. E. Jones. Ladies' 



Home Journal, April, 1910. 

 The Country Girl who is coming to the City. Batchelor. Delineator, 



May, 1909. 

 Play and Playground Literature. For most helpful and inexpensive 



literature on this subject address: The Playground Association of 



America, 1 Madison Ave., New York City. 

 Conservation in the Rural Districts. James W. Robertson, D.Sc. 



The Association Press, New York. 

 Education for Country Life. Willet M. Hays. Free Bulletin, U. S. De- 



