2/8 FARM DEVELOPMENT 



products. Better roadways in the neighborhood leading 

 to a village, to the church and to the school, increase 

 the value of the land. 



Good roads make life more pleasant on the farm. The 

 business of farming can be done in a more agreeable 

 and less cramped way if there is an easy way of com- 

 munication with others. Intellectually, life is more 

 pleasant, interesting and elevating if the means of com- 

 munication with neighbors and with the outside world 

 are made better; if free transportation of pupils is pro- 

 vided, and if mail can be received daily. Socially, farm 

 life is improved by good roads since they lessen the 

 isolation and make visiting between families more fre- 

 quent; they result in more frequent reciprocal visits 

 with friends in village or city, and aid in building up 

 rural social organization. Churches and co-operative 

 business organizations can be more highly developed, 

 both in rural communities and in villages. Rural de- 

 livery of mail is a twentieth-century improvement, the 

 value of which can hardly be compared to any other 

 public service in which the farmers and the nation are 

 interested, and it is made more practicable by improved 

 roads. 



Good roads and country life education. The most im- 

 portant agricultural problem, and the most important 

 educational problem, now up for solution is the peda- 

 gogical organization of the splendid practical and scien- 

 tific body of knowledge concerning farming and home 

 making being accumulated by experiment stations and 

 departments of agriculture, and the development of 

 schools adapted to carrying this knowledge to all farm 

 youth. Here, as in city life education, three grades of 

 schools are being organized rural schools, agricultural 

 high schools and agricultural colleges parallel to the 

 city primary schools, city high schools and the colleges 

 of the university. The most important ste,p in this, work 



