The Challenge of the Country: A Study of Country Life Opportunity, by George Walter Fiske ...Association Press, 1912 - 283 pages |
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... districts in Maine , Vermont , eastern Connecticut and portions of all the older states . The cities ' gains cost the country dear , in abandoned farms , weakened schools and churches and discouraged communities drained of their ...
... districts in Maine , Vermont , eastern Connecticut and portions of all the older states . The cities ' gains cost the country dear , in abandoned farms , weakened schools and churches and discouraged communities drained of their ...
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... districts has been gaining these past two decades . While rural depletion is widespread , rural decadence must be studied not as a general condition at all , but as the abnormal , un- usual state found in special sections , such as ...
... districts has been gaining these past two decades . While rural depletion is widespread , rural decadence must be studied not as a general condition at all , but as the abnormal , un- usual state found in special sections , such as ...
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... districts is toward better social and moral conditions as well as material prosperity , we do not have to look far to find local degeneracy in the isolated places among the hills or in unfertile sections which have been deserted by the ...
... districts is toward better social and moral conditions as well as material prosperity , we do not have to look far to find local degeneracy in the isolated places among the hills or in unfertile sections which have been deserted by the ...
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... districts in Maine , Vermont , eastern Connecticut and portions of all the older states . The cities ' gains cost the country dear , in abandoned farms , weakened schools and churches and discouraged communities drained of their ...
... districts in Maine , Vermont , eastern Connecticut and portions of all the older states . The cities ' gains cost the country dear , in abandoned farms , weakened schools and churches and discouraged communities drained of their ...
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... districts has been gaining these past two decades . While rural depletion is widespread , rural decadence must be studied not as a general condition at all , but as the abnormal , un- usual state found in special sections , such as ...
... districts has been gaining these past two decades . While rural depletion is widespread , rural decadence must be studied not as a general condition at all , but as the abnormal , un- usual state found in special sections , such as ...
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Page 88 - That it shall be the object and duty of said experiment stations to conduct original researches or verify experiments on the physiology of plants and animals; the diseases to which they are severally subject with the remedies for the same...
Page 89 - SEC. 2. That it shall be the object and duty of said experiment stations to conduct original researches or verify experiments on the physiology of plants and animals; the diseases to which they are severally subject, with...
Page 235 - Friends of Drumtochty, it would not be right that we should part in silence and no man say what is in every heart. We have buried the remains of one that served this Glen with a devotion that has known no reserve, and a kindliness that never failed, for more than forty years. I have seen many brave men in my day, but no man in the trenches of Sebastopol carried himself more knightly than William MacLure. You will never have heard from his lips what I may tell you to-day, that my father secured for...
Page 46 - How can the life of the farm family be made less solitary, fuller of opportunity, freer from drudgery, more comfortable, happier, and more attractive?
Page 27 - I believe that the dignity of labor depends not on what you do, but on how you do it; that opportunity comes to a boy on the farm as often as...
Page 47 - Upon the development of country life rests ultimately our ability, by methods of farming requiring the highest intelligence, to continue to feed and clothe the hungry nations; to supply the city with fresh blood, clean bodies, and clear brains that can endure the terrific strain of modern life; we need the development of men in the open country, who will be in the future, as in the past, the stay and strength of the Nation in time of war, and its guiding and controlling spirit in time of peace.
Page 131 - Annals of the Am. Acad. of Pol. and Soc. Sci., March, 1912; p. 189. viduals of all ages, may be permanently quickened and inspired; the play movement thus making surely for greater contentment, cleaner morals, and more intense patriotism and righteousness on the farm lands and in the village populations of our country. Such indeed are the socializing effects of organized and supervised play.
Page 18 - The well-being of a people is like a tree; agriculture is its root, manufacturing and commerce are its branches and its life; if the root is injured, the leaves fall, the branches break away and the tree dies.
Page 256 - ... task. It offers also the pains, the burdens and responsibilities of motherhood. It offers also the obligation and perpetuating in succeeding generations the principles of the productive life made manifest in themselves. It does not offer the insult of a life of pride and vanity. It offers the joys of achievement, of self-expression, not alone in dead marble and canvas, but also in the plastic lives of children to be shaped and moulded into those ideal forms of mind and heart which their dreams...
Page 89 - ... of crops; the capacity of new plants or trees for acclimation; the analysis of soils and water; the chemical composition of manures, natural or artificial, with experiments designed to test their comparative effects on crops of different kinds; the adaptation and value of grasses and forage plants; the composition and digestibility of the different kinds of food for domestic animals; the scientific and economic questions involved in the production of butter and cheese; and such other researches...