uld be done about Sunday baseball in country villages?

15.--What is the special usefulness of the Grange in a rural community?

16.--In what lines of business has cooperation proved successful in the
country? Illustrate from the fruit growing industry.

17.--Why has cooperation proved more successful in the newer sections of
the country than in the East?

18.--What can you say about the success of cooperation in Denmark?

19.--What is the difference between a joint-stock creamery and a purely
cooperative creamery?

20.--In what ways can Christian people illustrate the principles of
brotherhood and cooperation so as to overcome the social deficiencies of
country life?

EDUCATION FOR COUNTRY LIFE

CHAPTER VI

CHAPTER VI

EDUCATION FOR COUNTRY LIFE

_How Efficient Rural Citizenship Is Developed_

I. _Weaknesses in Rural Education_

The urbanized country school.
Inferior school equipment and meager support.
Weakness of the district system.
Other problems of the country school.

II. _Modern Plans for School Improvement_

Arguments for and against consolidation.
Advantages of purely rural centralization.
A thoroughly modern country school.
A rural high school course of study.
Elementary agriculture and school gardens.

III. _Allies of the School in Rural Education_

School Improvement Leagues.
Rural libraries and literature.
Farmers' institutes and government cooperation.
Agricultural colleges and their extension work.

CHAPTER VI

EDUCATION FOR COUNTRY LIFE

HOW EFFICIENT RURAL CITIZENSHIP IS DEVELOPED

I. Weaknesses in Rural Education.

It is easy to blame the one-room schoolhouse for the failures of rural
life. It would be fairer to say the rural schools have not kept pace with
the rising standards of their own communities. There remains a deal of
sentiment about the "little red schoolhouse" of the olden time; yet,
discounted in cash, it fails even to keep the building painted. A recent
survey of social conditions in northern Missouri reports that in thirty
miles of travel on country roads not one unpainted barn or farmhouse was
observed, but every schoolhouse was out of repair.

It is evident, both from this neglect of the property and the meager
appropriation for school support, that the farmer to-day has no special
loyalty to the little red schoolhouse. In fact in