The Challenge of the Country: A Study of Country Life OpportunityFiske, George Walter
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The Challenge of the Country: A Study of Country Life Opportunity
Fiske, George Walter
Sociology, Rural
Hibbard, B. H., "Farm Tenancy in the United States," pp. 29-39 in
same.[46]
Cance, A. E., "Immigrant Rural Communities," pp. 69-80 in same.[46]
Plunkett, Sir Horace, "The Rural Life Problem in the United States."
chapters 3-4.
II. COUNTRY LIFE OPTIMISM
_Rural Resources and the Country Life Movement_
Bailey, L. H., "Why Boys Leave the Farm" and "Why Persons Take to
Farming," pp. 89-136 in "The Training of Farmers."
Bailey, L. H., "Country and City," chapter 2 in "The Outlook to Nature."
Butterfield, K. L., "The Solution of the Rural Problem," chapter 2 in "The
Country Church and the Rural Problem."
Anderson, W. L., chapters 4, 6, 8, 11 and 12, in "The Country Town."
Carver, T. N., "Shall Rural People Set Their Own Standards?" pp. 370-4 in
"Principles of Rural Economics."
Roads, Charles, "Present Relations of City and Country" and "A Great
Future for Rural Districts," chapters 2 and 7 in "Rural Christendom."
Ogden, H., "Vital Statistics of Rural Life," chapter 1 in "Rural Hygiene."
Plunkett, Sir H., chapter 7 in "The Rural Life Problem of the United
States."
Roosevelt, T., "Rural Life," in "The Outlook" for Aug. 27, 1910.
True, A. C., "The U. S. Dept. of Agriculture," pp. 100-109 in "Country
Life."
Bailey, L. H., "The College of Agriculture and the State," pp. 219-263 in
"The Training of Farmers."
Powell, E. P., "How to Live in the Country."
Washington, B. T., "How Denmark Has Taught Itself Prosperity and
Happiness," in "The World's Work" for June, 1911.
III. THE NEW RURAL CIVILIZATION
_Factors That are Making a New World in the Country_
Kern, O. J., "The New Country Life," chapter 1 in "Among Country Schools."
Roads, Charles, "A Great Future for Country Districts," chapter 7, in
"Rural Christendom."
Anderson, W. L., "New Factors," chapter 13 in "The Country Town."
Carver, T. N., "The Factors of Agricultural Production," chapter 3 in
"Principles of Rural Economics," (also important paragraphs in chapter 2).
Langford, W., "What the Motor Vehicle is Doing for the Farmer," in
"Scientific American," for Jan. 15, 1910.
Van Norman, H. E., "Rural Conveniences," pp. 163-7 in Mar. 1912 issue of
the "Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science."
Dixon, S. G., "The Rural Home," pp. 168-174 in same.
Parker, Harold, "The Good Roads Movement," pp. 51-7 in same.
Hamilton, John, "Influence Exerted by Agricultural Fairs," pp. 200-10 in
same.
Bailey, L. H., "Cyclopedia of American Agriculture," many fine articles in
Volume IV on social conditions.
IV. TRIUMPHS OF SCIENTIFIC AGRICULTURE
_The Oldest of the Arts Becomes a New Profession_
Carver, T. N., "Historical Sketch of Modern Agriculture," chapter 2 in
"Principles of Rural Economics."
Carver, T. N., "The Factors of Agricultural Production," chapter 3 in the
same.
Butterfield, K. L., "The New Farmer," chapter 4 in "Chapters in Rural
Progress."
Bailey, L. H., "The Agricultural Shift," chapter 1 in "The State and the
Farmer."
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