5.--Why are good roads so essential, socially and industrially, in the
country sections?

6.--When was the "Good Roads Association" formed, and how much has your
state expended for state roads the past twenty years? (Inquire of your
County Surveyor.)

7.--What do the rural sections owe to the steam railroad system of the
country?

8.--What have the trolleys accomplished which the steam roads could not
do?

9.--What changes in rural life are due to the rural free delivery of mail?

10.--Describe what these changes have accomplished in your own home
county.

11.--To what extent has machinery relieved farm labor of its drudgery?

12.--Describe the evolution of the plow and the harrow.

13.--What inventions in farm machinery have had the greatest influence on
rural progress?

14.--What can you say about the increase of intelligence in the country
sections you have known?

15.--What agencies are now at work in the country making popular education
possible?

16.--Have you observed anywhere yet the new social consciousness or class
consciousness among farmers?

17.--To what extent do you think cooperation has gained acceptance in the
country?

18.--In what rural institutions is cooperation still greatly lacking?

19.--What changes have already come in rural institutions?

20.--How is this new rural civilization revealing the will of God, and
what relation has it to the coming of the Kingdom of Heaven?

CHAPTER IV

TRIUMPHS OF SCIENTIFIC AGRICULTURE

CHAPTER IV

TRIUMPHS OF SCIENTIFIC AGRICULTURE

I. _Its Struggle with Rural Conservatism_

Modern efficiency in city and country.
The natural conservatism of farmers.
What is progressive agriculture?
Its development by government patronage.

II. _Some Special Aspects of Scientific Agriculture_

Intensive farming and conservation of fertility.
Achievements of scientific breeding.
Marvels of plant production.
Irrigation and the problem of the desert.
Dry farming possibilities.

III. _Some Results of Scientific Farming_

Agriculture now a profession.
Conservation: a new appeal to patriotism.
Permanency of rural Christendom now possible.

CHAPTER IV

TRIUMPHS OF SCIENTIFIC AGRICULTURE

I. Its Struggle with Rural Conservatism.

_Modern Efficiency not Confined to Cities_

_Efficiency_ is everywhere demanded by the spirit of our ti