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demands can never be met except through the application of 

 science to the practical work of the farm. 



The farm home. The life in the farm home is more inti- 

 mately connected with the vocation of the bread winners than 

 is the life in the homes where other vocations are carried on. 

 On the farm every member of tha family has a part in and 

 knows of the daily activities of the business of agriculture. 

 With the progress of scientific agriculture must come prog- 

 ress in the life of the country home. The present genera- 

 tion of home builders must make the country home more 

 sanitary, more convenient, and more beautiful. There must 

 be more adequate sewage disposal, so that filth and waste may 

 not breed disease in the farm home. There must be more 

 modern conveniences in the home, so that the women need 

 not wear out their lives by avoidable drudgery. There must 

 be more art in the country home, better books, better pic- 

 tures, better music, better rural architecture, and a more 

 beautiful countryside through the use of landscape art and 

 the materials of nature so abundantly furnished. 



The country school. Much good and a great deal of 

 adverse criticism has been spoken and written about the coun- 

 try schools. We usually think of the country schools as the 

 one-room institutions planted here and there and everywhere 

 throughout the open country. Whatever these country schools 

 may have been in the past, they, too, must fall in line with 

 the progress of rural life in the twentieth century and serve 

 a larger purpose for the people of the country. Some of the 

 lines of progress for the country schools are the consolidation 

 of the small districts into larger units, and the establishment 



