l, social, and psychological causes.
5. Results of the movements of the farm population.
_a_) Results both good and bad.
_b_) Resume of industrial and social results.

CHAPTER II

Social Condition of the Rural Population

Nativity; color; illiteracy; families; health; temperance; crime;
morality; pauperism; defectives; insanity; etc.

CHAPTER III

The Social Psychology of Rural Life

1. Isolation and its results.
2. The farm home and its environment.
3. Traits of family life.
4. Traits of individual life.

CHAPTER IV

The Social Aspect of Current Agricultural Questions

1. Tenant farming.
2. Large vs. small farms.
3. Farm labor.
4. Irregular incomes.
5. Farm machinery.
6. Specialization in farming.
7. Immigration.

Part II

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.

CHAPTER IV

Means of Agricultural Education

1. Historical.
2. Research in agriculture.
3. Agricultural instruction to resident students.
_a_) Higher education in agriculture.
_b_) Secondary education in agriculture.
_c_) Primary education in agriculture.
4. Extension teaching in agriculture.
5. Miscellaneous agencies for agricultural education.
_a_) Farmers' societies.
_b_) The farm press.
_c_) The county paper.
_d_) Industrial departments of steam railways.

CHAPTER V

The Rural Church

1. Present status.
2. Difficulties in country church work.
3. The awakening in the rural church.
4. The institutional rural church.
5. The Y. M. C.