@article{Sawtelle:339152,
      recid = {339152},
      author = {Sawtelle, Emily Hoag},
      title = {The Advantages of Farm Life:  A Study by Correspondence  and Interviews with Eight Thousand Farm Women},
      address = {1924-03},
      number = {1485-2024-035},
      pages = {34},
      year = {1924},
      note = {Digest of an Unpublished Manuscript.  Comments on:  The  Work Side; Satisfactions in Good Farming; Partnership on  the Farm; The Work Habit for Farm Children; The Social  Side; The Stage of Modern Organization; Native Social  Advantages in Farm Life; Possibilities Open to Country  Life; Experiments in Rural Organization; The Home Side; The  Physical Setting; The Farm House.},
      abstract = {Excerpts:  The Country Life Commission appointed by  President Roosevelt found many unfavorable conditions  prevalent in the open country, and gave them wide publicity  in its report.  This report is not an indictment of country  life, but a candid statement of some of the handicaps to  the development of the innate power of rural social  institutions. The Commission felt that the country was not  making progress as fast as the cities and towns and made  some pointed recommendations looking toward improvement.   The every day life of the bulk of the people of this  country is not news.  So there would be no point to any  statement of country life at its best if there had not been  previously so generally entertained a conception of country  life that is woefully one-sided.  With the popular  conception in mind and a conviction that it was  misrepresentative, the author set out to visit farm women  in their homes and to report in their own words their  attitude toward farm life.  Others were reached by letters,  some of which were written in refutation of a  misrepresentation of farm life which appeared in the press.   Views of hundreds of these farm women on many phases of  farm life are here presented.  These women are strong,  resourceful, capable and leading personalities in their  communities.  Living full and active lives they see the  best side, and choose to consider the handicaps and the  undesirable features of temporary and minor importance and  to emphasize the possibilities of farm life.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/339152},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.339152},
}