قراءة كتاب The Country-Life Movement in the United States
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The Country-Life Movement in the United States
THE COUNTRY-LIFE MOVEMENT
IN THE UNITED STATES
The Rural Outlook Set
THE OUTLOOK TO NATURE (Revised)
THE NATURE-STUDY IDEA
THE STATE AND THE FARMER
THE COUNTRY-LIFE MOVEMENT
The
Country-Life Movement
in the United States
BY
L. H. BAILEY
New York
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
1911
All rights reserved
Copyright, 1911,
By THE MACMILLAN COMPANY.
Set up and electrotyped. Published March, 1911.
Norwood Press
J. S. Cushing Co.—Berwick & Smith Co.
Norwood, Mass., U.S.A.
TO
Charles W. Garfield
—SEER OF VISIONS, PROPHET OF THE
BETTER COUNTRY LIFE—
I dedicate this budget
of opinions
CONTENTS
Pages 1-3
It is not a back-to-the-land movement, 1 —This book, 2.
Pages 4-13
A transition period, 6 —The Commission on Country Life, 7—The three fundamental recommendations of the Commission, 9—A national conference of country life, 12 —A voluntary movement, 12—The international phase, 13.
SOME INTERRELATIONS OF CITY AND COUNTRY
Pages 14-30
Some contrasts of town folk and country folk, 14—Comparisons of town and country affairs, 16—The two minds, 17—Will the American farmer hold his own? 19—The first two remedies, 21—Movement from city to country as remedy, 23—Sending the surplus population to the country, 25—Back-to-the-village, 26—Can a city man make a living on a farm? 27—What the city may do, 30.
THE DECLINE IN RURAL POPULATION.—ABANDONED FARMS
Pages 31-43
Significance of the decline, 32—The abandoned farms, 37—The new farming, 41.
RECLAMATION IN RELATION TO COUNTRY LIFE; AND THE RESERVE LANDS
Pages 44-54
The interests of society in the work, 45—public@vhost@g@gutenberg@html@files@40197@[email protected]#A_broad_reclamation_movement"