LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 



1. A Farm Home Frontispiece 



2. A Farm Brook 2 



3. Elms at the Water's Brink 3 



4. A Pleasant Farmhouse 4 



5. A Quiet Corner of the Farm 5 



6. Variation in Timothy Heads 6 



7. Plowing along the Nile 8 



8. Head of Fox 10 



9. Rattlesnake: Copperhead; Garter Snake ; Water Snake . . 10 



10. The San Jose Scale 11 



11. Orchard and Forest 12 



12. Nature in the City 12 



13. Spinning Flax 16 



14. Plowing with Oxen . . . . . . . . .18 



15. Sowing with Tractor and Drill 18 



16. Making Brooms on the Farm 19 



17. Cyrus H. McCormick 20 



18. Type of Barn a Century Old 21 



19. A Modern Homestead .; . . 23 



20. Barn at Mt. Vernon 24 



21. An Industrial Center 26 



22. Hard Work 27 



23. Blacksmithing 28 



24. The Best Farm Crop . . . ... . . .31 



25. Light Work for Children 1 . . 32 



26. Comparative Values 34 



27. Tablet at Union Station, Washington 35 



28. Farm Pets 37 



29. Organized Play 38 



30. Home Work 39 



31. Boy Scouts at Camp ,41 



32. Rope Splicing 42 



33. The Typhoid Carrier 46 



34. Caught! 47 



35. The Country School .48 



