Chapter II: Introduction: Chapter Page

I. The Study of Rural Life 3

II. The Problems of Progress 11

THE OUTLOOK

III. The Expansion of Farm Life 45

IV. The New Farmer 53

V. Culture from the Corn-Lot 66

AGENCIES OF PROGRESS

VI. Education for the Farmer 77

VII. Farmers' Institutes 92

VIII. The Hesperia Movement 104

IX. The Rural School and the Community 121

X. The Grange 136

XI. Opportunities for Farm Women 162

XII. The Country Church and Progress 170

XIII. A Summary of Recent Progress 183

FORWARD STEPS

XIV. The Social Side of the Farm Question 199

XV. The Needs of New England Agriculture 204

XVI. An Untilled Field in American Education 216

XVII. Federation for Rural Progress 233

INTRODUCTION