Chapters in Rural Progress

by Kenyon L. Butterfield

SOCIAL FACTORS IN RURAL PROGRESS

Chapter I

Means of Communication in Rural Districts

1. Importance and status of rural communication.
2. The new movements for better rural communication.
a) Highways.
b) Rural free mail delivery.
c) Rural telephone.
d) Interurban electric railways.

Chapter II

Farmers' Organizations

1. Value of.
2. Difficulties in organizing.
3. Forms that organizations may take.
4. History and work of farmers' organizations in the United States.
5. General deductions from study of farmers' organizations.

Chapter III

Rural Education

1. Distinction between rural and agricultural education.
2. The country school.
a) Its importance, organization, maintenance, instruction, and supervision.
b) The rural school as a social center.
c) The township unit, the consolidated school, the centralized school.
3. High-school privileges for rural pupils.
4. The rural library.
5. Other agencies for rural education.