CONTENTS 



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Strawberry Pickers of Maryland . . Harry H. Bremer . . 157 



Children or Cotton Lewis H. Hine . . . 158 



Bibliography 160 



CHAPTER VII 



MENTAL AND MORAL ASPECTS OF RURAL LIFE 162 



Characteristics of the Farmer . . . James Bryce .... 162 

 The Influence of Farm Life on Child- 

 hood Charles W. Elliot . . 164 



An Appreciation of Rural People . T. N. Carver .... 165 

 The Rural Environment and Great 



Men W. J. Spillman ... 168 



Suggestion and City-Drift . . . Ernest R. Groves . . 172 



The Mind of the Farmer .... Ernest E. Groves . . 175 



The Need of Ideals in Rural Life . Kenyan L. Butterfield . 181 



Bibliography 183 



CHAPTER VIII 



RURAL HEALTH PHYSICAL AND MENTAL 185 



A. RURAL HEALTH PHYSICAL 

 A Sociologist's Health Program for 



the Rural Community . . . . L. L. Bernard . . . 185 

 City is Healthier for Children than 



the Country Thomas D. Wood . . 193 



Rural Sanitation : Definition, Field, 



Principles, Methods, and Costs . . W. S. Rankin, M.D. . . 197 



B. RURAL HEALTH MENTAL 



Feeble-mindedness Defined . . . E. J. Emerick . . . 203 



Fundamental Facts in Regard to 



Feeble-mindedness Va. Board of Charities . 204 



The Hill Folk Danielson and Davenport 206 



The Extent of Feeble-mindedness in 

 Rural and Urban Communities in 



New Hampshire Report of the Children's 



Commission . . . 213 



Feeble-minded Citizens in Pennsyl- 

 vania Dr. W. E. Key . . .214 



Amentia in Rural England . . . A. F. Tredgold . . . 217 



Urban and Rural Insanity . . .U.S. Bureau of Census . 218 



What is Practicable in the Way of 



Prevention of Mental Defect . . W. E. Fernald . . .219 



Bibliography 223 



