Farm Youth: A Selected List of References to Literature Issued Since January, 1920

Excerpts from the Introduction: This bibliography was prepared by request for the use of the American Country Life Association at the Ninth National Country Life Conference, Washington, D. C., November 10 to 14, 1926. The title Farm Youth which was decided upon in order to correspond with the name assigned to the Conference is somewhat of a misnomer as most of the references are on rural youth, i.e. both the youth in the small agricultural town and in the open country. In the annotations an attempt has been made to indicate whether the publication referred to the farm youth or to the youth of the small town in an agricultural section. In many cases it was impossible to make this distinction as it was not apparent from the publication itself. To have this bibliography issued in time for the meeting, it was necessary to limit the material to the United States and to publications issued since January, 1920. A few exceptions have been made in cases where important earlier publications were called to our attention. It was necessary, with a few exceptions, to limit our examination of publications to those in the Library of the U. S. Department of Agriculture and its Bureau libraries.