| PLATE |
| I. | Fig. 1. | At least once each day the busy farm father may think of a way to combine his work with the children’s play | Frontispiece |
| | FACING PAGE |
| II. | Fig. 2. | Canadian boys breaking young oxen | 6 |
| III. | Fig. 3. | An attractive Kansas home | 28 |
| IV. | Fig. 4. | A day nursery in the country | 42 |
| V. | Fig. 5. | A rural home in the South | 56 |
| VI. | Fig. 6. | A well-equipped farmhouse | 64 |
| VII. | Fig. 7. | Children playing under the shade trees | 72 |
| VIII. | Figs. 8-9. | Rural church, Plainfield, Illinois | 86 |
| IX. | Fig. 10. | Village church at Ogden, Kansas | 92 |
| X. | Fig. 11. | Corn Sunday in an Illinois church | 96 |
| XI. | Fig. 12. | A country schoolhouse in California | 108 |
| | Fig. 13. | Type of model rural school used in Kansas | 108 |
| XII. | Fig. 14. | Model rural school at Kirksville, Missouri. Normal | 112 |
| XIII. | Fig. 15. | Rear view of the Kirksville school | 114 |
| XIV. | Fig. 16. | Using Babcock tester | 120 |
| XV. | Figs. 17-21. | Consolidated school and those it displaced | 124 |
| XVI. | Fig. 22. | The Cornell rural schoolhouse | 126 |
| XVII. | Fig. 23. | A.Y.M.C.A. play club | 132 |
| XVIII. | Fig. 24. | Y.M.C.A. Convention in Ohio | 138 |
| XIX. | Fig. 25. | Jerry Moore, champion corn raiser | 150 |
| XX. | Fig. 26. | A lonely schoolhouse | 164 |
| XXI. | Fig. 27. | Tennis in the country | 180 |
| | Fig. 28. | Country play festival | 180 |
| XXII. | Fig. 29. | Industrial exhibit in rural school | 192 |
| XXIII. | Fig. 30. | Agricultural and domestic science club | 208 |
| XXIV. | Fig. 31. | School and church in Canada | 212 |
| XXV. | Fig. 32. | Kansas prize winners | 230 |
| XXVI. | Fig. 33. | Girls’ doll display | 238 |
| XXVII. | Fig. 34. | Boys whittling | 252 |
| XXVIII. | Fig. 35. | Study of corn | 256 |
| XXIX. | Fig. 36. | School gardeners | 270 |
| XXX. | Fig. 37. | Country schoolgirls | 290 |
| XXXI. | Fig. 38. | A girls’ class in sewing | 300 |
| XXXII. | Fig. 39. | Girl sowing seed | 312 |
| | Fig. 40. | Boy thinning vegetables | 312 |