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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; 

 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. 



