CONTENTS xi 



CHAPTER XII PAGE 



THE RURAL HOME 313 



A. THE HOME 



Women on the Farms Herbert Quick . . . 313 



An Open Letter to Secretary Houston Mary Doane Shelby . . 319 



Women in Rural Life Sir Horace Plunkett . 323 



The Problem of the Changing Rural 



Home Georgia L. White . . 324 



B. RURAL HOUSING 



Rural Housing Elmer S. Forbes . . .327 



Overcrowding and Defective Housing Harvey Bashore . . . 329 

 Housing Conditions on Farms in New 



York State L. H. Bailey . . . .331 



Bibliography 334 



CHAPTER XIII 



THE COUNTRY SCHOOL 337 



An Epigram T. J. Coates .... 337 



The Status of the Rural School . . Ernest Burnham . . . 337 

 Rehabilitating the Rural School . . L. L. Bernard . . . 340 

 The County as a Unit of Administra- 

 tion A. C. Monahan . . . 345 



The Change from Amateur to Profes- 

 sional Teaching H. W. Foght .... 347 



The Rural High School .... George H. Betts and Otis 



E. Hall 348 



The Spread of the School Manse Idea George E. Vincent . . 351 

 Agriculture and the Curriculum . . Evelyn Dewey . . . 352 

 The Moonlight Schools of Kentucky . Cora Wilson Stewart . 356 

 A National Program for Education . Natl. Edn. Assn. . . . 363 

 The Consolidated School as a Com- 

 munity Center John //. Cook . . . 371 



Bibliography 374 



CHAPTER XIV 

 OTHER EDUCATIONAL AGENCIES 377 



Education Through Farm Demonstra- 

 tion Bradford. Knapp . . . 377 



Home Economics Work Under the 



Smith-Lever Act A. C. True . . . .389 



Boys' and Girls' Contest Clubs . . L. II. li,,ili>y . . . .391 



The Rural Book Hunger . . . . M. S. Dudgeon . . .394 



