During the 1910 Red Cross Christmas Seal sale, the Anti-Tuberculosis Association of Wisconsin, offered the services of a visiting nurse for one month to twelve cities of a limited population, making the highest per capita sale. The Red Cross Seal Committee of Ohio, in 1912, sent a visiting nurse for one month to each of twelve small cities throughout the State as a prize in the seal-selling contest. Interest in visiting nursing was thus stimulated to a degree that several of these towns have since been insisting upon a permanent nurse, and have raised funds necessary for her support. Hospitals, dispensaries and medical attendance are seldom as accessible in the country as in cities. To have the rural nurse a resident in the community, her services for all regardless of any lines of distinction, to have intelligent nursing care for patients in their own homes, and instruction and demonstration given in the principles of hygiene, not only of person but as applied to home surroundings, are advantages which have been appreciated wherever the visiting nurse is established. The best physicians have welcomed her assistance. No stronger testimony to the value of her services is needed than the present demand for public health workers in connection with industrial establishments, department stores, religious and civic institutions and health departments of city, town and county. Women of the finest type are needed for this work and those who have had specialized training in public health activities. Several visiting nursing associations to be utilized as training centers for Red Cross nurses offer good opportunities for students to become familiar with social work of various kinds through lectures, study courses and affiliations with philanthropic societies in the city. Nurses may thus come in contact with milk stations, dispensaries, tuberculosis and charity organization societies, settlements and other social agencies. Nurses eligible for appointment to the Rural Nursing Service, who have not already had experience or training in visiting nursing, after a minimum period of three months with a city nursing association will be placed one month with an association in the country, thus giving them actual experience in rural nursing and its problems before assignment to their post of duty. It is important that the rural nurse be informed upon the various branches of public health nursing and social service, as carried on in cities, in order that she may initiate work along these lines in country places where it is often wholly unorganized. She should be able to recognize contagious diseases and minor ailments among school children. By giving simple health talks in the schools, she is able to utilize one of the most advantageous avenues for influencing the home life of her people.