INDEX

Abandoned country churches, 126 Absentee landlords, 32-39 Academy,—Old New England, 25 Addams, Jane, 191 Adult Bible Class, 134 Agee, Prof. Alva, 105 Agriculture, teaching of, 167 Amish, 74 Amusement, problem of, 84 Anabaptist, 72 Anderson, Wilbert L., 102 Anti-Saloon League, 183 Apples, marketing of, 175 Augustine, Saint, 82 Austerity, 57 Bailey, L. H., 50 "Bees", 203 Bellona, N. Y., 56 Boll weevil, 143 Bone, R. E., 86 Braddock, Rev. J. S., 58 Breach of contract, 174 Breadwinner, type, 113 Butterfield, Kenyon L., 137 Casselton, N. D., 42 Centralized school, 163 Chaffee, farm, 43 Chester County, Pa., 124 Chesterton, Gilbert K., 115 Christmas play, 203 Church, Budget, 138 Envelope system, 139 Financial system, 130 Records, 172 Clark, John Bates, 80, 111 College athletics, 193 Columbus, Christopher, 112 Community center, 104 Consciousness of kind, 208, 213 Corn Clubs, 206 Country Fair, promoted, 17 Country Life Commission, 171 Cranberry, N. J., church at, 27 Crete, Nebraska, 86 Danish Folk Schools, 52, 169 Delaware, produce exchanges, 154 Demonstration work, 206 Denmark, 51, 147 Desmoulin, 96 Diminishing returns, law of, 88, 110 Donation, system, 27 Dunkers,58, 67 Du Page Church, 106 Eliot, Ex-President of Harvard, 137 Endowment of churches, 136 Exploitation of land, 32-33, 123, 124 Family group, 19 Shrinkage of, 124 Farm laborers, 22 Federation of churches, 135, 209 Foght, Harold W., 97, 160 Fourth of July celebration, 205 Galesburg, Ill., 201 Galpin, Prof. C. J., 94 Giddings, Prof. Franklin H., 208 Gill, Rev. C. O., 195 Gillette, Prof. John M., 188 Gillin, Prof., 57, 58, 67 Greeley, Horace, 108 Group system, 10, 11, 12 Grundtvig, Bishop, 51, 53, 169 Gulick, Dr. Luther H., 197 Haggard, H. Rider, 147 Hanover, N. J., 156 Hays, Willet M., 91 Hernando, Mississippi, 105 Holidays, celebration of, 204 Homestead act, 34 Hood River Valley, Oregon, fruit growers, 176 Hormell, Dr. W. H., 88 Illinois, 126 Survey of, 190 Immigrants, in country districts, 123 Indiana, survey of, 190 Ireland, Christian Brothers, 52 Co-operative organizations, 147-151 Country Life Movement, 80 John Swaney Consolidated School, 165-166 Kentucky, co-operative organizations, 152 Survey of, 190 Lancaster County, Pa., 57 Land values, 34 Leadership, 187 Lewistown, Pa., 198 McNab, Ill., 166 McNutt, Rev. Matthew B., 86, 106 Marginal man, 113 Massachusetts communities, 96 Mennonites, 72 Middle Creek Church, 58 Minimum salary, 161 Missouri, survey of, 190 Money crop, 95 Mormons, 57, 62-78 Morrison, Rev. T. Maxwell, 56 Mountain community, 4 Mountaineers, 6, 8, 16 New England Country Church Asso., 137 New York Central R. R., 177 Oberammergau, 83 Oberlin, John Frederick, 14 Oblong meeting, 71, 172 Ohio, counties less productive, 101 Ottumwa, Iowa, 88 Over churching, 26, 145, 146 Palatinates, 72 Pastor, need of, 13 Passion Play, 83 Penn, William, 72 Penn Yan, N. Y., 40 Pennsylvania Germans, 57, 62-78 Pennsylvania, survey of, 190 Planters, south, 18 Playground, 98 Playground movement, 134, 196 Plunkett, Sir Horace, 51, 147 Polk, Rev. Samuel, 54 Poor, ministry to, 115 Protestantism, 118 Quaker Hill, 70, 94, 155 Quaker meeting, McNab, 168 Quakers, 70, 197, 204 Rankin, David, 41 Recreation, importance of, 139, 194 Retired farmers, 36-38 Retirement from farm, process described, 125 Revivals, 7, 8, 9 Riis, Jacob, 87 Rock Creek, Ill., 156, 164, 205 Ross, Prof. J. B., 2, 21, 29, 32, 184 Rural evangelism, 131 Rural exodus, 87, 97 Rural free delivery, 128 Sag Harbor, L. I., 201 Sage, Mrs. Russell, 201 Schenck, Norman C., 4 School, country, 23, 85, 60, 159 Scientific farming, 48 Scotch-Irish, 30, 57, 62-78 Simmel, 212 Slave-holding churches, 28 Smith, Adam, 5 Smith, John, 112 Socialism, 116 Social service, 110, XVI Spencer, Herbert, 212 Store, country, 22, 94 Sunday Schools, 131, 134 Swaney, John, 86 Tardé, Gabriel, 59 Teachers, training of, 161 Team play, ethical value, 99 Telephone, rural, 128, 190 Temperance movement, 46, 117, 183 Tenant farmers, 35 Tenants' lease, 40 Thompson, R. E., 65 Theological seminaries, 119-120 Trolley, inter-urban, 128 Types, economic, 3 Utility, initial, 108 Marginal, 109 Van Alstyne, Edward, 177 Vote selling, 179 Washington County, Pa., 124 Waterloo, Iowa, community church, 68 Wealth, conservation of, 47 West Nottingham, Md., church at, 54 Winnebago, Ill., 58 Young Men's Christian Association, 134, 194 Young People's Societies, 28