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 EXTENSION SERIES No. 9 
 
 Syllabus of Home-County 
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The Bureau of Extension of the University 
 
 of North Carolina 
 
 The University of North Carolina through its Bureau of Extension 
 offers to the people of the State: 
 
 I. GENERAL INFORMATION: 
 
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 Concerning books, readings, essays, study outlines, and subjects — 
 of general interest. Literature will be loaned from the Li- 
 brary upon the payment of transportation charges each 
 way. 
 
 INSTRUCTION BY LECTURES: 
 
 Lectures of a popular or technical nature and addresses for com- 
 mencement or other special occasions will be furnished any 
 community which will pay the traveling expenses of the 
 lecturer. 
 
 CoRRESPONDENCE COURSES: 
 
 For teachers in Arithmetic, Economics, Education, English, Ger- 
 man, Latin, North Carolina History, Rural Economics, 
 Rural Education, Solid Geometry, and United States His- 
 tory. 
 
 GUIDANCE IN DEBATE AND DECLAMATION: 
 Through the High School Debating Union, special bulletins and 
 handbooks, and material loaned from the Library. 
 
 County Economic AND SOCIAL SURVEYS: 
 For use by counties in their effort to improve their economic _ 
 and social condition. 
 
 MUNICIPAL AND LEGISLATIVE REFERENCE AIDS: 
 For use in studying and drafting municipal and State legisla- 
 tion. 
 
 A TEACHERS’ BUREAU: 
 
 To be used as an aid to communities and schools in securing 
 efficient teachers and as a clearing house for information 
 concerning secondary schools and college entrance require- 
 ments. 
 
 For full information, address 
 
 Tue BurEAU oF EXTENSION, 
 Chapel Hill, N. C. 
 
FOREWORD 
 
 Nine-tenths of the power of seeing a thing as it is, turns out to 
 be ones power of seeing tt as it is going to be.—GERALD STAN- 
 LEY Ler. 
 
 1. The County Clubs at The University of North Carolina are 
 volunteer organizations devoted to the study of home-county and 
 mother-state conditions and problems—economic, social and civic. 
 
 The Club members believe that a proper study for North Carolinians 
 is North Carolina. They are bent upon intimate, thoughtful acquaint- 
 ance with the forces, agencies, tendencies, drifts and movements that 
 have made the history we study today, and that are making the history 
 our children will study tomorrow. 
 
 2. Each county is compared with itself during the last census period, 
 in order to learn in what essential particulars it is moving forward, 
 marking time, or lagging to the rearward. 
 
 But also, it is compared with other counties of the State in every 
 phase of the study, in order to show its rank and standing; or so, as 
 far as possible. 
 
 Meanwhile the State as a whole is being set against the big back- 
 ground of world endeavor and achievement. Citizenship needs to be 
 broadly thoughtful, competent, and patriotic everywhere; and also it 
 needs to escape being narrowly parochial and provincial anywhere. 
 
 3. The federation of County Clubs is The North Carolina Club, 
 which devotes one hour each week to defining, discussing and in- 
 terpreting the results of the various individual Club studies. 
 
 4. The headquarters of The North Carolina Club are the seminar 
 room of the Department of Rural Economics and Sociology in the 
 Peabody Building. It is open all day every day, except upon Tuesday, 
 Friday and Saturday afternoons. Here is a clearing-house, a ready 
 reference library, of exact information about North Carolina, in mat- 
 ters economic and social. 
 
 5. This economic and social reference library at the University will 
 be brought into efficiency as rapidly as possible. 
 A purpose of The North Carolina Club is to campaign the organiza- 
 tion of similar Home-Study Clubs in every county and community of 
 the State. The central reference library in the headquarters of the 
 Club at the University is a source of such economic and social infor- 
 
 mation as may not be readily at hand to extra-campus clubs. 
 
 Inquiries by letter will receive prompt attention. If the information 
 wanted about the county or the State has not already been assembled, 
 
4 SYLLABUS OF HomE-CouNntTy CLUB STUDIES 
 
 the utmost endeavor will be at once made to secure it from the various 
 scattered sources of such data. 
 
 The Home-Study Clubs are an effort toward direct and single-mind- 
 ed preparation for intelligent, effective service to the mother-state. 
 
 The North Carolina that was, challenges the pride of her sons and 
 daughters; the North Carolina that is, calls for familiar, loving ac- 
 quaintance; the North Carolina that is to be, depends upon the compe- 
 tent citizenship of her children. 
 
 COUNTRY-LIFE PROBLEMS A MAIN MATTER 
 
 The County Club studies, herein outlined, largely concern our rural 
 problems and their solution; and properly so because country civiliza- 
 tion bulks big in North Carolina. 
 
 I. Our country dwellers outnumber our townspeople more than 
 six to one. Nearly five-sixths of the school children of the State are 
 country children. Nearly four-fifths of all the church members in 
 North Carolina are in the countryside. The white voters in our 
 country precincts outnumber our white voters in the towns and cities 
 nearly six to one. 
 
 Barely more than five hundred thousand people in North Carolina 
 in 1910 lived in cities and towns, or incorporated places of any size 
 whatsoever. But nearly one million seven hundred thousand of our 
 people lived in the open country. 
 
 If democracy concerns the greatest good of the greatest number, 
 country life in North Carolina deserves to occupy the foremost place 
 in the activities of both the church and the State. 
 
 2. But also, agriculture is the biggest business in North Carolina— 
 biggest in the total capital employed, in the wealth annually created, 
 and in the number of people engaged in it. 
 
 The capital invested in agriculture in the census year was nearly 
 two and a half times the amount invested in manufacture of all 
 kinds. The farm wealth created, in crops and animal products, was 
 nearly twice the wealth created by our mills and factories in the pro- 
 cesses of manufacture. While the people engaged in farming out- 
 numbered all other bread-winners and wage-earners nearly exactly 
 two to one. 
 
 Education or legislation that neglects or overlooks the countryside 
 problem in North Carolina sins against the majority of her people, the 
 bulk of her business capital and the chief sources of her well being and 
 welfare. 
 
 3. Our civilization rests at bottom on the wholesomeness, the at- 
 tractiveness, and the completeness, as well as the prosperity, of life in 
 the country, says The Country Life Commission. Upon the develop- 
 ment of country life rests ultimately our ability, by methods of farm- 
 
UNIVERSITY OF NortTH CAROLINA 5 
 
 ing requiring the highest intelligence, to continue to feed and clothe 
 the hungry nations; to supply the city with fresh blood, clean bodies, 
 and clear brains that can endure the terrific strain of modern life. We 
 need the development of men in thé open country, who will be in the 
 future, as in the past, the stay and strength of the nation in time of 
 war, and its guiding and controlling spirit in the time of peace. 
 
 SOURCES OF INFORMATION 
 
 Facts without opinions are useless; opinions without facts are 
 impertinent or mischievous or worse. To be steeped in a ruck of 
 mere opinions 1s a sad and sorry state of existence —THE Homer 
 AND FARMSTEAD. 
 
 In general: direct personal inquiry, special field investigations; the 
 newspapers and newspaper files; old account books, letters, bills and 
 receipts; the records of the courthouse offices, the presentments of the 
 grand juries; the maps, bulletins and reports of the various State 
 departments, commissions, and institutions; the publications of the 
 Federal bureaus and offices—the county soil surveys, the topographical, 
 geological, and postal route maps, the census reports; public and pri- 
 vate libraries; minutes of the various church bodies; programs and 
 publications of the educational, agricultural, industrial and financial 
 organizations of the State; the Club library upon economics and 
 sociology, and the Club files of accumulating data about North Caro- 
 lina. 
 
 Bibliographies of definite source materials at the University are at 
 hand for ready use here in every section of the Home-County studies. 
 
 They are also at the service of extra-campus Home-Study Clubs. 
 Specific information about economic and social conditions and prob- 
 lems in North Carolina can be promptly secured by letter; or will be 
 assembled and transmitted to the enquirer at the earliest possible 
 moment. 
 
 HOW TO USE THE SYLLABUS 
 
 Intimate, familiar acquaintance with one’s Mother-State is a 
 direct appeal to intelligent civic conscience and concern. We will 
 serve our State vetter when we know her better—Tut Home 
 AND FARMSTEAD. 
 
 1. Ask for definite instructions about source materials. 
 2. Note briefly and accurately the bare facts called for. 
 
 3. State definitely the sources of information: direct personal in- 
 vestigation; correspondence—with whom, date; title and page of 
 pamphlets, bulletins, reports, or volumes used, etc. 
 
6 SYLLABUS OF HomE-County CLUB STUDIES 
 
 4. When the county studies have been finished, translate the results 
 into a simple running narrative (1) for publication by sections in the 
 newspapers of the home county, and (2) for publication in bull’ 22 
 form, as a brief text-book for stidy in the county high schools, for 
 use in the teachers’ institutes, for thoughtful reading in the farm 
 homes, for discussion by the ministerial association and for the con 
 sideration of the merchants and bankers of the county. 
 
 5. Every section of the study ought to be marked by a consideration 
 of conditions, causes and consequences, along with a ronstructive pro- 
 gram aimed at the checking of untoward drifts and tendencies, or the 
 hastening of advantageous forward movements. 
 
 6. In particular, the burden of study is: My Home-County— 
 Where it Leads, Where it Lags and the Way Out. 
 
 E. C. Branson. 
 
CONTENTS 
 
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Syllabus of Home-County Club Studies 
 
 I. HISTORICAL BACKGROUND 
 
 The true test of civilization is not in the census, nor the size 
 of cities, nor the crops—No—but the kind of men the country 
 turns out.—EMERSON. 
 
 1. Brief historical sketch of the county. 
 2. Racial strains and influences. 
 
 Noteworthy (1) localities, (2) memorials, (3) achievements, 
 (4) events, (5) personages. 
 
 4. Subjects for theses or discussions: The Scotch-Irish in North 
 Carolina History. The German-Lutherans in North Carolina. The 
 Moravians in North Carolina. The Friends and their Influences. 
 Cotton Culture in North Carolina: Beginning, Development and 
 Importance. The Development of Cotton Manufacture in North 
 Carolina; Tobacco Manufacture; Furniture Manufacture. 
 
 5. Sources of Information (indicated in definite foot notes, as used 
 in the course of these studies). 
 
 II. NATURAL RESOURCES 
 
 The prosperity of a country depends not on the abundance of 
 ats resources nor on the strength of its fortifications nor on the 
 beauty of its public buildings. 
 
 It consists in the number of tts cultivated citizens, its men of 
 education, enlightenment, and character. 
 
 Here 1s to be found its true interest, its chief strength, its 
 veal power.—MartTIn LUTHER. 
 
 1. Location and area, topography and climate, health conditions. 
 
 2. Natural sources of wealth in the county: 
 
 (1) Fisheries—population engaged; capital invested; annual 
 output; conditions and problems; needed legislation. 
 
 (2) Mineral deposits—kinds and localities; active mining in- 
 dustries; population engaged; capital employed; annual 
 output; undeveloped resources. 
 
 (3) Forest area—extent, character and value; annual timber 
 cut; wood-working industries; population engaged; total 
 capital employed, annual output; forestry problems; needed 
 legislation. 
 
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 (4) Water powers—available, used, how used; mills and fac- 
 tories, number and kinds, total population engaged, total 
 capital employed, annual output. 
 
 (5) Soils and seasons—soil areas and characteristics; crop 
 adaptations, farm activities and opportunities; population 
 engaged; capital employed; typical farm system of the 
 county, defects or advantages; total annual farm wealth 
 produced by crops and animal products; per capita wealth 
 of country populations, comparisons; sources of annual 
 farm wealth, in order of importance. 
 
 Subjects for theses or discussions: North Carolina—the Land of 
 Opportunity. Our Unprotected, Undeveloped Fisheries. The For- 
 estry Problems of North Carolina. Our Water Powers and Their 
 Development. The Control and Regulation of Water Powers. 
 Our Undeveloped Farm Areas. The Production and the Retention 
 of Farm Wealth. Our Economic Surplus; its Bulk and Signifi- 
 
 cance. The Economic Classes of North Carolina. 
 
 Sources of information (indicated as in other sections of these 
 studies). 
 
 III. POPULATION STUDIES 
 
 I am saddened when I see our successes as a nation measured 
 by the number of acres under tillage or the bushels of wheat 
 exported; for the real value of a country must be weighed in 
 scales more delicate than the Balance of Trade. 
 
 The garners of Sicily are empty now, but the bees from all 
 climes still fetch honey from the tiny garden plot of Theocritus. 
 On a map of the world you may cover Judea with your thumb, 
 Athens with a finger tip, and neither of them figures in the 
 Prices Current; but they still lord it in the thought and action of 
 every civilized man. 
 
 Did not Dante cover with his hood all that was Italy six hun- 
 hundred years ago? Material success is good, but only as the 
 necessary preliminary of better things. 
 
 The measure of a nation’s true success is the amount it has 
 contributed to the thought, the moral energy, the intellectual 
 happiness, the spiritual hope and consolation of mankind.—JAMES 
 RussELL Lowe... : 
 
 Total population, 1910? Per cent increase? 
 
 Rank? 
 
 White population, I910? Per cent increase? 
 - Rank? 
 
 Negro population, 1910? Per cent increase? 
 
 Rank? 
 
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 Rural population, 1910? Per cent increase? 
 Rank? 
 Urban population, 1910? Per cent increase? 
 Rank? 
 
 If there is a large and growing city in the county, give population 
 figures, per cent of increase and rank as above. 
 
 Rural population to the square mile? Rank? 
 
 Subjects for theses or discussions: Sparsity of Population—ef- 
 fects upon values, upon the movement of populations, public en- 
 terprises, organization and co-operation, law and order, schools 
 and churches. The Isolation of Farm-Life in America—contrasted 
 with other countries; consequences. Rapidly Increasing Popula- 
 tions—causes? effects? Decreasing Populations—causes? effects? 
 “Growing cities like standing armies tend to destroy the regions 
 upon which they subsist”’—-why? instances in North Carolina? 
 “The existence and future prosperity of a city depend upon its 
 being the center of a well-developed food-producing region”’— 
 why? instances? The Policy of Modern City Boards of Trade. 
 North Carolina’s Loss of Native-born Population by Inter-State 
 Migration—the total loss, the causes. Is the Negro Resisting the 
 Lure of City Life and Sticking to the Farm Regions better than 
 the Whites in North Carolina?—where? why? effects? The white 
 population of North Carolina increased 18.7 per cent during the 
 last census period; the negroes, only 11.7 per cent—account for the 
 difference. The Black. Majorities in North Carolina—where? 
 why? Increasing Negro Majorities in North Carolina—where? 
 why? Race Segregation by Law. 
 
 5. Sources of information. 
 
 IV. COUNTRY POPULATIONS 
 
 Most men when they die are dead—dead as Dickens said Mr. 
 Marley was—“< dead as a doornail!’’ f 
 
 Some men are taller when they lie down to die than when 
 they stood up alive. 
 
 They were community-builders; not always in things material; 
 but always, with no exception, in things spiritual—which is better. 
 —THE Home AnD FARMSTEAD. 
 
 Country population: 
 (1) Total poulation of the county, outside of towns contain- 
 ing 2,500 or more inhabitants? 
 
 (2) Total population in the smaller towns and villages? 
 (3) Total dwellers in the open country? 
 
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 (4) Farm population: White Negro 
 Total 
 
 Total land-owners—White 1910 Negro 1910 
 Total 
 
 White 1900 Negro 1900 
 Total 
 
 Increase Increase 
 Increase 
 
 Increase % Increase % 
 
 Increase % 
 Farm owners who tilled the lands they owned—White Ig10 
 
 Negro 1910 Total 
 Farm owners who tilled the lands they owned—White 1900 
 Negro 1900 Total 
 Increase Increase Increase 
 Increase % Increase 7% Increase% 
 
 Rank of the county in ownership-farming ? 
 
 Absentee-landlords—White 1910 Negro 1910 
 
 “otal. 
 
 Total acreage owned? 
 
 Prevailing form of tenant contracts? Describe brief- 
 ly. 
 
 The total landless, homeless population of the county in 1910— 
 White. Negro. Total. Is it in- 
 creasing? Why? 
 
 Subjects for theses or discussions: The More Rapid Growth of 
 Urban Populations—causes? consequences? Village Problems. 
 Advantages and Disadvantages of Country Life. Conditions of 
 Child Labor on the Farm and in the Factory. The Concentration 
 of Farm Land Ownership—instances? causes? consequences? 
 Our Unproductive Farm Areas—the problem? the causes? the 
 remedies? The Rapid Rise in Farm Land Values—causes? con- 
 sequences? remedies? Farm Tenancy—causes?  effects—econo- 
 mic and social? Our Increasing Landless Multitudes—causes ? 
 consequences? remedies? Why the Farm Tenant in the South? 
 Our Supply-Merchant System. The Absentee-Landlord. ‘Tenancy 
 Contracts—forms? advantages or disadvantages? effects? sug- 
 gestions. 
 
 Sources of information. 
 
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 V. WEALTH STUDIES 
 
 When private wealth is rightly related to community weal, when 
 wealth and commonwealth are one, increasing progress will no 
 longer mean increasing poverty; and increasing magnificence, 
 increasing misery. The tooth-and-claw struggle for survival and 
 supremacy in modern Christendom is a shameful denial of the 
 mind and message of the Master—Turt Home anv FarMSTEAD. 
 
 Total taxable wealth of the county? Increase from 1900 
 to I9gIo? Rank? 
 (1) Increase—Why large or small? 
 (2) Per capita wealth of population (based on 1910 tax di- 
 gest) ? 
 (3) Per capita annual increase? 
 
 Total farm wealth of the county (based on the I9Io census) ? 
 Increase during last census period? Rank? 
 (1) Increase—Why large or small? 
 (2) Compare total farm wealth with the total taxable wealth 
 of the county? Conclusions? 
 (3) Per capita wealth of country population? 
 Rank? Compare with (a) the average for the 
 State, (b) the United States, (c) with other southern 
 states? 
 (4) Why large or small? 
 (5) Average per-acre tax value of farm land? 
 Average census value per acre? 
 Compare the two values. 
 Conclusions? 
 (6) Compare this ratio with similar ratios for other counties 
 in the State. Rank of the county. 
 
 Farm property, 1910 census’: 
 (1) Approximate area? 
 
 Land in farms? Increase or decrease since 
 1900? Why? 
 
 (2) Improved land in farms? Increase or decrease 
 since 1900? Why? 
 
 (3) Uncultivated area? Why uncultivated? 
 What are the obstacles? the opportunities ? 
 
 (4) Total value of the farm buildings? Average per 
 farm? Comparisons ? Why large or small? 
 
 (5) Total value of farm implements and machinery? 
 Per cent of increase during census period? 
 Comparison? Rank? Why high or low? 
 Per-acre investment in farm implements? 
 Comparisons ? Rank? Why high or low? 
 
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 (6) Total value of domestic animals? Per-acre value? 
 
 Comparisons? Rank? Why high or low? 
 Negro property ownership: 
 (1) Number of acres owned in 1900? In 1910? 
 Increase %? 
 (2) Total aggregate wealth in 1900? In 1910? 
 (3) Per capita wealth in 1900? In 1910? 
 
 (4) Conclusions? 
 
 Farm mortgage indebtedness: 
 Farms with mortgage debt, 1910, White % Negro % 
 Total % Rank? Significance? 
 
 Subjects for theses or discussions: Our Per Capita Wealth: a 
 study in comparisons. Are Farm Properties Bearing an Un- 
 reasonable Share of the Tax Burden? The Tax Values of Farm 
 Land in North Carolina: a study in contrasts. The General Prop- 
 erty Tax—theory, defects, consequences. The Inequalities and In- 
 iquities of our Tax System. New Zealand’s Graduated Land 
 Tax. Cash Operating Capital in our Farm Regions—the facts, the 
 results. Factors in the Retention of Farm Wealth: the conditions 
 in North Carolina. Farm Mortgage-Indebtedness in North Caro- 
 lina: the total in 1910, the increase, the significance of it. Home 
 and Farm Ownership: the facts, the economic and social effects. 
 Increasing Property Ownership by Negroes: the facts, the causes, 
 the consequences. Elbow-Room in North Carolina for Middle 
 Western Home-Seekers: advantages and opportunities. Labor- 
 Saving Farm Machinery in the South: comparisons, obstacles, 
 increases. Our Investment in Domestic Animals: a study in con- 
 trasts. Our Barn-Yard Banks. Our Annual Fertilizer Bill: the 
 facts, the causes, comparisons. 
 
 Sources of information. 
 
 VI. DOMESTIC ANIMALS ON FARMS AND RANGES, 
 1910 CENSUS 
 
 “And Abel was a keeper of sheep,’—a herdsman, a live-stock 
 farmer, engaged in a business that enriches the soil. And the 
 Lord had respect unto Abel and his offering. 
 
 “ But Cain was a tiller of the ground,’—a grower of crops 
 merely, engaged in a business that impoverishes the soil. 
 
 He forgot that the earth 1s the Lord’s, and the fullness thereof. 
 He was robbing God. And so, unto Cain and his offering He 
 had not respect—Turt Home AND FARMSTEAD. 
 
 Cattle—number? Increase per cent? 
 Rank? Number per 1000 acres of area? ~ Rank? 
 
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 Dairy Cows? Increase per cent? Number 
 per inhabitant? Rank? 
 
 Horses—number ? Increase per cent? 
 
 Horse colts? Increase per cent? 
 
 Mules—number? Increase per cent? 
 
 Mule colts? Increase per cent? 
 
 Cultivated acres per work-animal? Increase per 
 cent? Rank? 
 
 Hogs—number ? Increase per cent? 
 
 Rank? Number per 1000 acres of area? 
 Sheep—number? Increase per ceut? 
 
 Rank? 
 
 Poultry—number ? Increase per cent? 
 
 Rank? 
 
 Bee swarms—number? Increase per cent? 
 
 Dogs—number ? 
 
 Subjects for theses or discussions: ‘The Beef-Cattle Industry in 
 North Carolina—opportunities. Dairy Cows in North Carolina 
 and Wisconsin: a study in contrasts. Horse Power on Southern 
 Farms. Our Ham and Bacon Problem: the facts, the opportu- 
 nities. Dairy and Poultry Products in North Carolina: a com- 
 parison. 
 
 In 1910, we had in North Carolina 737,000 cattle and 484,000 hogs fewer 
 
 than in 1850. During this period, our population multiplied two 
 and a half times over;-but our hogs decreased 26% and our cattle 
 46%—account for the decrease. 
 
 A Dog License-Tax in North Carolina. A Dog Muzzle Law. Our 
 
 Fi) 
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 Disappearing Sheep Industry. 
 Sources of information. 
 
 VII. ANIMAL PRODUCTS, 1910 CENSUS 
 
 Drawing breath in the South and drawing rations from the 
 West makes permanent farm prosperity well nigh impossible, no 
 matter how large our tobacco and cotton crops, or how high the 
 market prices. 
 
 The farmer or the farm community with barns and bins, smoke- 
 houses and cribs full of home-raised food and feed stuffs, is in- 
 variably prosperous, financially trustworthy, and a good credit risk. 
 —TuHE Home anp FARMSTEAD. 
 
 Domestic animals, sold or slaughtered: Calves? 
 Other cattle? Swine? Sheep and goats? Poultry? 
 
 (1) Estimated total lbs. of meat produced (dressed weights) ? 
 
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 (2) ‘Total lbs. of meat needed (counting 152 lbs. per inhabitant, 
 
 per year)? 
 (3) Meat surplus or deficit? Ibs. 
 Rank? 
 Milk—total gal. produced? Production per inhabitant, 
 per day? Comparisons? 
 Butter—total lbs. produced? Production per inhabitant, 
 per day? Comparisons ? 
 (1) Butter needed (counting 48 lbs. per inhabitant, per year) ? 
 Ibs. 
 
 (2) Butter deficit or surplus? Ibs. Comparisons? 
 Eggs—total doz. produced? Production per inhabitant, 
 per week? ; Comparisons? 
 
 (3) Eggs needed (counting 171-2 doz. per inhabitant, per 
 
 year)? 
 
 (2) Egg deficit or surplus? doz. 
 
 Comparisons? 
 Value of live stock products: 
 Dairy products? 
 Poultry products? 
 Honey and wax? 
 Wool? 
 Receipts from sale of slaughtered animals? 
 Value of animals sold? 
 Total? Comparisons? 
 
 Per Capita value of home-raised meat? 
 Estimated total cost of imported meat? 
 
 Animal products—per cent of total farm wealth produced in 1910? 
 Compare with Wisconsin. 
 Conclusions ? 
 
 Subjects for theses or discussions: Live-Stock Industries in North 
 Carolina: importance, obstacles, opportunities. Our Meagre Home- 
 Raised Meat Supply: the facts, the penalties, the remedies. Farm- 
 Tenancy and Live-Stock Industries. Animal Products in our 
 Cotton and Tobacco Counties: facts, causes, remedies. Market- 
 ing Crops on Four Legs Instead of Four Wheels: a study in 
 contrasts. Animal Husbandry and Soil Improvement. Markets 
 and Live-Stock Industries: relations, necessities. Ham and Ba- 
 con in North Carolina: the low cost of production, and the op- 
 portunities. The Parcels Post and the Farmer. Full Smoke- 
 Houses and Permanent Farm Prosperity: contrast North Caro- 
 lina and Iowa. 
 
 Sources of information. 
 
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 VIII. THE PRODUCTION OF CROP-WEALTH, 1910 CENSUS 
 
 i. 
 
 It is almost as true today as it was-a century ago that the 
 average nation’s industrial welfare depends chiefly upon the 
 raising of an abundant crop and its sale at fair prices THE 
 
 NatTION. 
 The gross total? Average per-acre yield? 
 Rank? Comparisons? Conclusions? 
 What per cent of the gross total is produced by cotton alone? 
 By tobacco alone? By food and feed crops 
 
 alone? 
 The per capita food-producing power of the county (counting 
 both food crops and animal products) ? Rank? 
 
 Comparisons? Conclusions? Does the 
 the county raise a sufficiency of food and feed stuffs? 
 Deficit? $ Surplus? $ Check estimates by figures 
 
 of merchants and freight agents. 
 Base estimates upon the following figures: 
 
 (1) The average cost of food per person in the South Atlantic 
 States is around $84 per year. 
 
 (2) A horse needs 1 lb. of grain and 1 lb. of forage per day 
 for each hundredweight; or a thousand pound horse or 
 mule needs around 65 bu. of corn, (or 114. bu. of oats) 
 and 14-5 tons of forage per year; costing say, around 
 $100 per year. 
 
 (3) Count the cost of keep of other domestic animals, as 
 follows: 2 cattle, 6 hogs, or 8 sheep, or 150 poultry=1 
 horse or mule. 
 
 To which type of farm system does your county, as a whole, 
 belong: (1) the One-Crop, Farm-Tenancy, Supply-Merchant Sys- 
 
 tem; (2) the Many-Crop, Ownership-Farming System; (3) the 
 
 Many-Crop, Ownership-Farming, Live-Stock System? Reasons 
 for classifying your county? Advantges? Defects of the system? 
 
 Corn production, I910 census: 
 
 Acreage? Total yield? Average per-acre 
 yield? Rank? 
 
 Per cent of gain or loss in acreage since 1900? 
 
 Percent of gain or loss in average per-acre yield since 1900? 
 
 Per capita production of corn, 1910 census? 
 
 Estimated corn surplus or deficit in 1910? in 1913? 
 
 Base estimate on North Carolina’s per capita corn production in 
 1850 (34 bu.); in 1910 (15 bu.); or in 1913 (24 bu.) Population 
 in 1910—2,206,087 ; in 1913—2,327,42I. 
 
6. 
 
 IO. 
 
 iy. 
 
 I2. 
 
 13. 
 
 UNIVERSITY OF NortH CAROLINA 17 
 
 Wheat production, I9I0 census. 
 
 Acreage? Total yield? Average per-acre 
 yield? Rank? 
 
 Per cent of gain or loss in acreage since 1900? 
 
 Per cent of gain or loss in average per-acre yield since 1900? 
 
 Per capita production of wheat, I9I10 census? 
 
 Estimated wheat surplus or deficit? 
 
 Base estimate on 6 bu. of grain consumed per person per year. 
 
 Oats production, I9IO census. 
 
 Acreage? Total yield? Average per-acre 
 yield? Rank? 
 
 Per cent of gain or loss in acreage since 1900? 
 
 Per cent of gain or loss in average per-acre yield since 1900? 
 
 Hay and forage production, I9I0 census. 
 
 Acreage? Total yield? Average per-acre 
 yield? Rank? 
 
 Per cent gain or loss in acreage since I9QIO? 
 
 Per cent gain or loss in average per-acre yield since 1910? 
 
 Production per work-animal per day? Rank? 
 
 Sweet potatoes and yams, IQIO census. 
 
 Acreage? Total yield? . Average per-acre 
 yield? Rank? 
 
 Per cent of gain or loss in acreage since 1900? 
 
 Per cent gain or loss in average per-acre yield since 1910? 
 
 In the same way treat other food crops if locally important: truck 
 
 crops, sugar cane and sorghum cane, orchard fruits, small fruits, 
 
 grapes, ground-peas, nuts, etc. 
 
 Cotton production, 1910 census. . : 
 
 Acreage? Total yield? Average per-acre 
 yield? Rank? 
 
 Per cent gain or loss in acreage since IQIO? 
 
 Per cent gain or loss in average per-acre yield since 1910? 
 
 Total annual consumption by mills within the county? 
 
 Tobacco production, 1910 census. 
 
 Acreage? Total yield? Average per-acre 
 yield? Rank? 
 
 Per cent gain or loss in acreage since 1900? 
 
 Per cent gain or loss in average per-acre yield since 1900? 
 
 Total annual consumption by factories within the county? 
 
 Themes for theses or discussions: ‘The-Buy-a-Bale Movement. 
 
 The Government Valorization of Cotton. Per-Acre Crop Yields 
 
 and Per Capita Wealth in the Farm Regions of North Carolina— 
 
 a study in contrasts. Food-Producing Power and Wealth-Retain- 
 
 ing Power in the Counties of North Carolina. The One-Crop, 
 
 -Farm-Tenancy, Supply-Merchant System of Farming: instances 
 
18 SYLLABUS OF HomE-CouNtTY CLUB STUDIES 
 
 in North Carolina, economic and social consequences. The Many- 
 Crop, Farm-Owner, Live-Stock System of. Farming: instances, 
 consequences. Signs of Progress in North Carolina Agriculture. 
 
 In 1910, the average acre of cotton land in North Carolina produced 
 $33.01 and the average acre of tobacco land, $62.41. The grain- 
 growing, hay-and-forage counties of Illinois produced from $14.00 
 to $18.00 per acre. But the country population of Illinois, man 
 for man, is worth from four to fifteen times as much as the 
 country population of our cotton and tobacco counties. Account 
 for their greater power to accumulate farm wealth. 
 
 Hon. Clark Howell says: Our one-crop mania is economic insanity 
 give reasons for agreement or disagrerment. 
 
 14. Sources of information. 
 
 IX. ORGANIZATION AND CO-OPERATION 
 
 An organized community can be what it wills to be. An un- 
 organized community is in a state of decadence.—BULLETIN, 
 InLInots AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE. 
 
 Organized effort is one of the greatest factors in Modern 
 Civilization; whether we have in mind educational, social, re- 
 ligious, political, or industrial activities—JoHn LEE Courter. 
 
 Personal initiative and a cultivated co-operative spirit are the 
 very core of this matter-——-Tue Country Lire Commission. 
 
 Membership in one body is a fundamental doctrine of religion. 
 It is no less a fundamental doctrine of economics and sociology— 
 and the church must lead men into it. 
 
 Getting together and pulling together on earth is a preparation 
 for dwelling together in Heaven.—Tur HomMé AND FARMSTEAD. 
 
 I. Organizations (cultural, for individual benefit) : 
 
 Farmers’ clubs, clubs of country boys and girls, organizations for 
 farmwives, agricultural fairs, field trials, school fairs, Sunday 
 school associations, county ministerial association, debating or 
 declamation societies, library clubs and reading circles, singing 
 societies, base ball clubs, or any other organization designed to 
 stimulate individual effort. 
 
 Catalogue such organizations in your county, giving (1) ‘The names 
 and (2) the addresses of leaders. 
 
 Single out the oldest, largest, and most successful; state preaen the 
 causes of strength, popularity and perpetuity. 
 
 Suggest such other organizations as need to exist, and state reasons 
 therefor. . 
 
 2. Co-operative enterprises (for mutual benefit): Fraternal orders, 
 farmers’ unions, and other organizations for co-operative produc- 
 tion, marketing, buying, credits, etc. 
 
 Catalogue such organizations in your county, giving (1) Names and 
 purposes, and (2) the addresses of designated leaders or busi- 
 ness managers. 
 
UNIVERSITY oF NortTH CAROLINA 19 
 
 Single out one conspicuous success; analyze the causes of success; out- 
 
 line achievements and prospects. 
 
 Single out a conspicuous failure; analyze it, and state briefly the causes 
 
 3 
 
 The 
 
 4, 
 
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 of failure. 
 
 Subjects for theses or discussions: Farm Organizations in Amer- 
 ica: an historical sketch. Pedigreed Seed Clubs: purposes, achieve- 
 ments. Pedigreed Live-Stock Clubs. Fruit Growers’ Clubs. Boys’ 
 Pig Clubs: importance, achievements. Boys’ Corn Club Records. 
 Girls’ Garden and Canning Clubs: importance, results. The School 
 Fair: its value, instances. Agricultural Fairs: successes, failures, 
 causes of failures, remedies. The County Ministerial Association : 
 purposes, programs, field of work. Clubs for Country Women: 
 importance, programs, instances of success. 
 
 Principles of Successful Co-operation. The Regeneration of Ire- 
 land. Denmark—the Farmers’ State. The California Fruit Grow- 
 ers’ Exchange. The Eastern Shore of Virginia Produce Exchange. 
 The East Carolina Truck and Fruit Growers’ Association. Co- 
 operative Farmer Enterprises in Catawba County. Farmers’ Mu- 
 tual Insurance Companies. Farmers’ Mutual Telephone Compan- 
 ies. Co-operative Creameries and Butter Factories. Co-operative 
 Warehouses in North Carolina. Co-operative Grain Elevators in 
 the West. Land and Loan Associations in Ohio. The Landschaften 
 in Germany. The Raiffeisen Banks. The Land Banks of France. 
 Sources of information. 
 
 X. RURAL CREDITS 
 
 The first step toward credit—ready, abundant, cash loans, at 
 low rates of interest, and comfortable repayments—is financial 
 trustworthiness.—HENRY WALLACE. 
 
 The second step les in security—ample collateral readily con- 
 vertible into cash at fair prices. 
 
 The third, a sufficient circulating medium. 
 
 Money is one thing; credit another. 
 
 Agencies beyond the farmer can furnish cheap money; the 
 farmer alone can establish the credit he needs——-TuHEr HoME AND 
 FARMSTEAD. 
 
 The business done by the Farmers’ Co-operative Banks of Ger- 
 many in 1910 totaled six billion, six hundred and ninety-one 
 million dollars—Joun E. Laturop, Pearson’s Magazine, Octo- 
 ber, 1913. 
 
 The material basis of farm credit in the county, 1910 census. 
 
 (otal farms property: ox i.e ewe AIR LS $ 
 (Potalecrops: produced S71 224.. ay erie oc 25 ee $ 
 (Potahtatimale products. sawenos sane kn. $ 
 
 Latah. collaterals Ames ead waecee $ 
 
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 2. 
 
 SyLLABUS OF HomE-CouNtTY CLUB STUDIES 
 
 (1) 
 
 (2) 
 
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 Total credit basis estimated at 25% of the 
 COllateral: 25. votes oe weld hoe hes cee ee $ 
 Total credit secured I9I0: 
 
 Private credit (from individual money lenders) $ 
 
 Book credits (open accounts in stores)......... $ 
 
 Banks credits |. ia 2b. 1G tele sles Cee een ee $ 
 Land-mortgage credits (to outside loan agen- 
 
 CIES) oa Sade oan Wide elie ee ohare «ies Ore ee ee $ 
 
 Total credit: secured’... 5-ccc ee ee ee $ 
 Compare collateral with total credits obtained. Con- 
 clusions? Compare book with bank credits. 
 Conclusions? 
 
 Farm mortgage indebtedness, 1910 census: 
 
 (1) 
 
 (2) 
 (3) 
 (4) 
 
 (5) 
 
 (6) 
 (7) 
 
 Number of farms— 
 
 Cultivated by owners: White? Negro? 
 
 Total? 
 
 Mortgaged: White? Negro? 
 
 otal? 
 
 Per cent mortgaged White? Negro? 
 
 Total? 
 
 Rank of the county based upon the total per cent of 
 mortgaged farms? Why high or low? 
 
 Has the number of mortgaged farms increased during 
 census period? Why? 
 
 Compare with the average for North Carolina, 1910 cen- 
 sus, (18.5 per cent). Why above or below the state aver- 
 age? 
 
 Total value of mortgaged lands and buildings? 
 
 Total mortgage indebtedness thereon? 
 
 Per cent of collateral? Rank in North Caro- 
 lina? 
 
 Why high or low? 
 
 Compare with the average for North Carolina, (23.2 %) 
 Why above or below the state average? 
 
 Increase or decrease in farm mortgage indebtedness, 
 
 Since 1900? Significance? 
 Increase or decrease in the borrowing value of farm 
 land? Significance? 
 
 3- Per capita wealth of the country population of the county (based 
 
 (1) 
 
 on the total value of farm properties, I910 census) ? 
 
 Rank in North Carolina? Why high or low? 
 The average for the State was $322. Why above or be- 
 low the state average? 
 
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 (2) Consider this per capita wealth: (1) as indicative of cir- 
 
 Ciiatiie. cast. (2) (asta basis-oftcredit: 
 Is it a meagre or abundant financial basis? 
 
 4. Sources of loans: 
 
 (1) 
 
 (2) 
 
 (3) 
 
 (4) 
 
 (5) 
 (6) 
 
 Banks—Number of state banks? National 
 banks? Total capital stock? Total 
 bank resources? Number of farmers owning 
 stock? Per cent of the total stock-holders? 
 Farmer depositors? Per cent of the total? 
 Farmer deposits? Per cent of the total? 
 Farmer borrowers? Per cent of the total? 
 
 - Total amount loaned to farmers? Per cent 
 
 of total loans? 
 
 Supply-merchants, in open accounts: 
 
 What per cent of the year’s credit business is with farmers? 
 What per cent of these farmers are white land-owners? 
 Negro land-owners? What per cent are white 
 tenants? Negro tenants? 
 
 Average usual time covered by book accounts? 
 
 The kind of security required? 
 
 Secure specimens of crop and chattel liens? 
 
 At what time of the year are these accounts closed up? 
 The total loss in bad accounts The per cent 
 of the year’s credit business? 
 
 Insurance companies. 
 
 Are the insurance companies lending money to farmers in 
 
 your county? The names and addresses of such 
 companies? Security required? Total loaned 
 to date? Rate of interest charged? 
 Commissions charged? Agents’ fees. 
 
 Building and loan associations. 
 
 Number and names of such associations {n your county? 
 Are they lending to farmers? Total amount 
 loaned to date? Interest charged? 
 Commissions charged? 
 Are there any farmers’ mutual credit societies in your 
 county? If so, give a full account of them. 
 Mortgage loan companies: 
 
 Addresses of companies doing business in your county? 
 Addresses of their local agents? ‘Total loans to date? 
 Rate of interest charged? Commissions charg- 
 ed? Agents’ fees? 
 
 5. Purposes of loans: 
 
 (1) 
 
 Improvement and expansion—more land, more and better 
 
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 SyLLABUS OF HomE-CouNtTy CLUB STUDIES : 
 
 tools, implements, labor saving machinery, homes, barns, 
 live stock and the like? 
 
 (2) The purchase of land and the establishment of homes 
 
 ~ and farms by persons newly entering the ranks of owner- 
 
 ship. 
 
 (3) Operating expenses—farm supplies, seeds, fertilizers, food 
 and feed stuffs, clothing and the like. 
 
 (4) The refunding of old debts. 
 
 (5) Indulgence or investment—in automobiles and the like. 
 Estimate as closely as possible the relative importance 
 of these five purposes of credit in your county. 
 
 6. Rates of interest paid: 
 
 6. 
 
 (1) The average difference between cash and time prices in 
 supply-stores. 
 (2) Average rates, for small, short-time personal loans? 
 (3) Average rates, for larger, long-term loans? 
 Is the interest paid in advance annually? Semi- 
 annually? 
 (4) Is a commission charged usually for making the loan? 
 How much? 
 (5) Does the agent or attorney charge for securing the loan? 
 Hiow much? 
 (6) Usual charge for abstracting titles and drawing papers? 
 What are the usual recording fees? 
 (7) Study and report upon the actual yearly rate of interest 
 paid upon: 
 (a) A typical store account. 
 (b) <A typical short-term loan. 
 (c) A typical land-loan. 
 Omit all names and count in all expenses, commissions 
 and fees of all sorts, along with the rate of inter- 
 est charged. 
 
 Subjects for theses or discussions: Land as a Basis of Credit. 
 Cotton as a Credit. Collateral. The Material Basis of Farm Credit 
 in the South. The Relation of the Tenant-Farmers, the Supply- 
 Merchant, and the Fertilizer Manufacturer to Southern Agricul- 
 Lluire; 
 
 In 1910, only 18.5 per cent of the farms of North Carolina were 
 
 mortgaged; while more than half the farms of Wisconsin, Iowa 
 and Missouri were mortgaged—the explanation, the significance? 
 
 In 1913, the average interest rate on mortgage loans in North Caro- 
 
 lina was 6.3%. In Virginia, West Virginia, and Miaryland, it 
 was lower; in South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, and all the 
 
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UNIvVERSIty OF NortTH CAROLINA 23 
 
 other Gulf States it was higher; in the Rocky Mountain, and 
 Pacific Coast States it was far higher—why? 
 
 The same year, the average interest rate on short-term loans in North 
 Carolina was 6.5%. Outside New England and the North At- 
 lantic States, it was the lowest rate in the United States—why ? 
 
 In 1913, eighteen of the leading insurance companies of the United 
 
 States had a farm mortgage business amounting to $414,000,000. 
 North Carolina’s borrowings from these sources amounted to two- 
 tenths of one per cent of this total; or $828,000. Kansas, Ne- 
 braska, Missouri and Iowa farmers secured. 51.8% of it; or 
 $214,452,000—account for the difference. 
 
 The Amortization Plan of Paying Loans. Land Debenture Bonds. 
 The Torrens Land Law—what, why? The Land Bank Bills now 
 before Congress. 
 
 7. Sources of information. 
 
 XI. MARKETS 
 
 e 
 
 Farmers will produce more when they can market more profit- 
 ably, purchase the raw materials of production more econom- 
 ically, and improve their credit facilities. All these things call 
 for organization.—T. N. Carver. 
 
 Organized industry always unloads its burden on the un- 
 organized.—GrorcE W. RUvSsSELL. 
 
 We should begin now to prepare for market facilities at 
 
 home for the increased production of food and feed crops made 
 
 necessary by reduced cotton acreage. Provisions should be made 
 for ascertaining, by localities and counties, just how heavily we 
 are wporting northern and western products—N. C. FARMERS’ 
 Union Apvisory CouNcIL, 
 
 1. Surpluses for sale, outside the county, 1910 census: 
 
 (1) Check (V) the items raised in your county in quantities 
 beyond the need of consumption within the county. 
 
 Corn Peaches Peanuts Sheep on hoof 
 Oats Plums Other nuts Mutton 
 Wheat Pears Vegetables Wool 
 
 Rye Cherries Melons Cattle on hoof 
 Hay, Forage Grapes Flowers, plants Beef 
 
 Cotton Figs Milk Hiogs on hoof 
 Tobacco Irish potatoes Cream Fresh pork 
 Sugar cane Sweet potatoes Butter Hams, bacon 
 Sorghum cane Yams Poultry Firewood 
 Cane syrup Nursery products Eggs Posts, poles 
 
 Apples Berries Colts Naval Stores 
 
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 (2) 
 (3) 
 (4) 
 
 (5) 
 
 (6) 
 
 (7) 
 
 (8) 
 
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 If the list is incomplete for your county, write in the 
 necessary additional items. 
 
 In determining whether or not your county needs outside 
 markets for surpluses, consult chapters VII and VIII. 
 
 For instance, the food and feed needed by man and beast 
 in Scotland county in the census year was around $1,900,- 
 ooo. The food and feed produced in the county was 
 around $700,000. 
 
 Here is a market problem that concerns purchasing—some $1,- 
 200,000 of food and feed alone, along with fertilizers, farm 
 tools and utensils, work-animals and the like. It is the 
 problem of car-load lots, with discounts for cash. 
 
 But also, there is the market problem of selling to the best’ad- 
 vantage some two million dollars worth of cotton—the 
 problem of operating capital, warehousing, minimum in- 
 surance rates and warehouse charges, holding for sat- 
 isfactory prices, if necessary, and borrowing advantag- 
 eously upon the collateral. 
 
 In similar way analyze the buying and selling problem of 
 your county. What surpluses has the county for sale? 
 What does the county need to import? 
 
 List the export products of your county and estimate the 
 annual bulk and value of each (1910 census). ‘The total 
 value of export surpluses? 
 
 What arrangements, conveniences, facilities and conditions 
 are necessary to get these surpluses into the regular 
 channels of trade, (1) in the best condition, (2) most 
 promptly, (3) least expensively, and (4) most profitably 
 to the producer? 
 Are the farmers of the country generally interested in 
 a. Expert picking, handling, grading, packing, uniform 
 standards and brands? 
 
 b. Expert butchering, curing, trimming and sacking meats, 
 packer style? 
 
 c. General market conditions, the Federal Crop reports 
 the market quotations in the daily papers? 
 
 d. Improved public highways? 
 
 e. Country telephones? 
 
 f. Cross-country electric railways? 
 
 g. The parcels post? 
 
 h. Railway facilities and rates, shipments in car-load 
 lots and the like? 
 
 i. Co-operative production and selling? 
 
(9) 
 
 UNIVERSITY OF NortH CAROLINA 25 
 
 To what extent are they active in these directions? Give 
 brief account in detail. 
 
 (10) If not interested, why not? Obstacles? Signs of prog- 
 
 ress? Suggestions. 
 
 2. Surpluses without markets, or with no markets offering satisfac- 
 tory prices. 
 As for instance, the 1914 apple crop in North Carolina. It is 
 (estimated) 7,600,000 bushels, or more than two and a half times 
 the 1913 crop. August prices to producers in the United States 
 averaged 68c per bushel; in Oregon 78c; Arkansas and Colorado 
 8o0c; in North Carolina 50c; in Western North Carolina from 15c 
 to 25c for the orchard run. Why? 
 
 (1) 
 
 (3) 
 
 (4) 
 (5) 
 
 (6) 
 (7) 
 
 ee Ocal 
 (1) 
 
 Instances in your county of farm surpluses wasted or 
 marketed without profits? , Causes? Effects on producers 
 and farm development? Suggested remedies? 
 
 Is there a city board of trade in your county? Is it ac- 
 tively engaged in helping the farmers in its trade terri- 
 tory to solve their market problems? In what way? 
 
 Are there: 
 
 Canning factories? Cotton warehouses? 
 Evaporating plants? Peanut warehouses? 
 Preserve, jam, jelly, or Tobacco warehouses? 
 Pickling factories? Butchering and 
 Creameries? Packing plants? 
 Butter factories? Refrigerating plants? 
 
 Are these enterprises individual? co-operative? or corpo- 
 ration enterprises? 
 
 Which are well established successes? Analyze causes of 
 successes. 
 Which are new enterprises? Outlook? 
 What enterprises of this sort have been failures? Analyze 
 causes of failure. 
 city markets. 
 Is there a free public market in your county? Or in 
 
 some nearby county? How long is the average haul to it? Are 
 the roads good? ‘The disadvantages of bad roads? 
 
 (2) 
 (3) 
 
 (4) 
 
 Does the city provide hitching grounds or sheds? A 
 rest-room for the farmwives? 
 
 Are there city ordinances against the house-to-house ped- 
 dling of farm produce? Why? The farmer’s objec- 
 tions to peddling? 
 
 Does the city market enable the farmers to turn into 
 
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 4. 
 
 SYLLABUS OF HomE-County CLUB STUDIES 
 
 instant ready cash at a fair profit whatever they have to 
 sell? 
 
 (5) Does it lower the cost to consumers, Ea: raising the 
 price received by producers? 
 
 (6) Is there adequate attention to sanitation? 
 
 (7) If the city market is poorly managed (and usually it 
 is), what are the defects? Suggested changes? 
 
 Markets to supply deficits. 
 
 (1) Check (V) the items that are imported into the county: 
 Corn, meal, wheat, flour, oats, hay, potatoes, cane syrup, 
 cabbages, onions, peas, lettuce, butter, canned goods, 
 poultry, eggs, horses and mules, beef, hams, salt-pork 
 sides, seeds, farm machinery, fertilizers and other like 
 items. 
 
 (2) List the items and closely estimate the total amount of 
 each import for the census year (1910) and check up the 
 results by canvassing the supply-merchants and freight 
 agents. 
 
 (3) What is the gross total? 
 
 (4) Do the farmers generally buy these supplies on time 
 from the supply-stores? If so, why the general necessity 
 for book accounts? Compare cash with credit prices; 
 conclusions? 
 
 (5) What attempts have been made in your county at co-oper- 
 ative purchasing of farm supplies? If ‘successful, ana- 
 lyze causes of success. If failures, why? Essentials to 
 success in co-operative buying? Obstacles? Outlook in 
 your county? 
 
 Subjects for theses or discussions: ‘The Self-Sufficing and the 
 Commercial Farmer. Can the Commercial Farmer Afford to 
 Buy What he can Raise? Do Surpluses Create Markets or do 
 Market-Demands Create Surpluses? Home-Raised Food and 
 Feed Stuffs in North Carolina Counties; in the South. Does 
 the Farmer Get a Righteous Share of the Consumer’s Dollar? 
 
 -The Middlemen: Who they are and their Functions. The Use- 
 
 less Middleman: Why he Exists, and How Eliminated. “It 
 costs more to market a crop than to produce it.’ Why? Getting 
 Producers and Consumers Together: why necessary, difficulties, 
 successes. The Farmer’s End of the Market Problem; the Con- 
 sumer’s End. Well Managed Municipal Markets: value to farm- 
 ers and consumers; instances of success. Municipal Packing and 
 Refrigerating Plants: obstacles, successes, failures. Canning 
 Factories: conditions of success; instances. Co-operative Pro- 
 
6. 
 
 UNIVERSITY OF NorTH CAROLINA 2k 
 
 duction and Marketing in Minnesota. The Production and Dis- 
 tribution of Farm -Wealth: relative importance. The Proper 
 Place of Government in the Miarket Problem. Food-Production 
 and Wealth-Retention in North Carolina and the South. The 
 Wealth-Accumulating Power of Food-Producing Regions: North 
 Carolina and Iowa, in contrast. North Carolina Products for 
 North Carolina People. Importing Food and Feed Stuffs into 
 North Carolina; an exhibit by counties? 
 
 Sources of information. 
 
 XII. IMPROVED PUBLIC HIGHWAYS. RAILWAY FACILITIES 
 
 Bees 
 
 2. 
 
 3. 
 
 4. 
 Be 
 
 Improved public roads are directly related to better country 
 homes and schools, to the reach and influence of country 
 churches, to the timely marketing of farm products, and to the 
 business of market centers. They are the arteries of organized 
 community life-—Tur HomMké AND FARMSTEAD. 
 
 A good sand-clay road is not made of sand and clay, but of 
 sand, clay, and sense, thoroughly mixed in right proportions. 
 The commonest need in road building is not more money but 
 more sense. 
 
 ‘The lack of it cost the United States $185,000,000 last year. 
 A king’s ransom wasted by incompetence, in the building of new 
 roads, in the patching of poor roads, and in the neglect of good 
 roads!—Turt HomMré AND FARMSTEAD. 
 
 How many miles of public roads in the county? 
 How many: miles are improved, graded or surfaced? 
 Per. cent of the total? Rank of the county? 
 How many miles are graded only? How many miles 
 are graded and surfaced with sand-clay or top-soil? 
 With macadam or gravel? 
 
 Is the road building of the county done under the direction of an 
 
 expert road engineer? His address? 
 
 Is the work done by the county chain-gang? Or by 
 hired labor? Is the work let out to private con- 
 tractors? 
 
 Revenues for roads, 1913: 
 
 Raised by direct tax levy? Levied by county or 
 
 township ? Rate? 
 
 Raised from the poll tax? Rate per poll? 
 
 Total? 
 
 Total bond issue, to date, for good roads? 
 Expenditures for roads and bridges, 1913: 
 Upon improved public highways? Miles built? 
 Material used for surfacing? Cost? 
 
28 SYLLABUS OF HomE-County CLuB STUDIES . 
 
 Patching and repairing old: roads Cost? 
 Steel bridges: number? Cost? 
 Concrete bridges: number? Cost? 
 Wooden bridges: number? Cost? 
 Culverts, drains: number? Cost? 
 
 Material used? 
 6. The county chain gang, 1913; if employed by the county in road 
 building: 
 Average number of convicts employed? 
 Average number of mules employed? 
 Total amount invested in road machinery? 
 Average cost of convict per day? 
 Average cost of feed per mule per day? 
 Total cost of the chain gang for the year? 
 
 7. lf the county leases the convicts: 
 To what other county? 
 Total number so leased in 1913? 
 Upon what terms? Price per able bodied convict per 
 day or month? 
 Total received for convicts leased in 1913? 
 
 8. Railway facilities: 
 
 List the railways touching or traversing the county. 
 
 Total miles of trackage within the county? 
 
 Are there cross-country electric railway lines? 
 
 How many miles of track within the county? 
 
 The usual market to which farm produce is freighted? 
 
 The usual center from which farm supplies are shipped into 
 the county? 
 
 The nearest stock-yards or packing-plant center for live stock 
 sales? 
 
 Do the facilities for handling live-stock encourage live-stock 
 industries in the county? 
 
 Are the facilities for handling perishable produce ample and 
 satisfactory ? 
 
 What railway companies are advertising your county or section? 
 
 How? Results? 
 
 What railway companies are active in developing your. county 
 or section? -In what way? Result? 
 
 9g. Subjects for theses or discussions: Improved Public Highways: 
 economic and social values. Public Road Engineers: a National 
 necessity. Engineering Problems in Highway Building. Human Na- 
 ture Problems in Highway Building. Wasting Road Revenues, 
 Road-Building Materials in North Carolina. The Sand-Clay or Top- 
 Soil Road and the Macadam Road. The King Drag. Systematic 
 
Io. 
 
 I. 
 
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 UNIVERSITY OF NortTH CAROLINA 29 
 
 Road Inspection and Repair. A State Highway Commission: 
 necessity, functions. A State Highway Fund: reasons for or 
 against. A Federal Highway Fund: reasons for or against. 
 The Use of State Convicts in Public Road Building: reasons 
 for or against. A Bond Issue for Good Roads: reasons for or 
 against. Good Roads in North Carolina; a study in contrasts. 
 The Lack of Railway Facilities: economic and social results? 
 The Railroad’s Share of the Consumer’s Dollar. The Relative 
 Importance of Facilities and Rates. The Relative Importance 
 of Railways and Improved Public Highways. 
 
 Sources of information. 
 
 XI. SCHOOL STUDIES 
 
 The ignorant pearl diver does not wear the pearl he wins; 
 the diamond digger is not ornamented by the jewel he finds; 
 the ignorant toiler in the most luxuriant soil is not filled with 
 the harvest he gathers. 
 
 The choicest productions of the world, whether’ mineral or 
 vegetable, wherever found or wherever gathered, will inevitably 
 by some secret and resistless attraction make their way into the 
 hands of the most intelligent. 
 
 Let whoever will sow the seed or gather the fruit, intelligence 
 consumes the banquet.—Horack Mann. 
 
 Native white illiterates, ten years old and over, in the towns and 
 cities of North Carolina in 1910, were 4.5 per cent; in the 
 rural regions, 13.5 per cent.—1910 Crnsus. 
 
 Lo, the House of Learning is a mighty country-life defense !— 
 Tue Home AND FARMSTEAD. 
 
 Illiteracy of persons 10 years old or over, 1900 and IQIO' census: 
 
 (1) Native whites: 1900, number? Per cent? 
 Native whites: 1910, number? Per cent? 
 Increase or decrease? 
 
 Rank of the county in white illiteracy? Gain 
 or loss? 
 
 (2) Negroes: 1900, number? Percent? 
 
 Negroes: 1910, number? Per cent? 
 
 Increase or decrease? 
 
 Rank of the county in negro illiteracy? Gain 
 or loss? 
 
 School support: 
 (1) Total received from all sources, 1902-03? 
 (2) Total received from all sources, 1912-13? 
 
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 (3) 
 
 (4) 
 
 (5) 
 
 (6) 
 
 (8) 
 
 SyvyLLABUS OF HoME-CouNtTy CLUB STUDIES 
 
 Average per child of school age per day? 
 
 Rank? Why above or below the State av- 
 erage? 
 
 Received from the State, 1912-13? Per cent 
 ef the total county school fund? Rank of the 
 
 county in this particular? 
 Total raised by school tax levies within the county, 1912- 
 
 13? Per cent of the total taxable property? 
 
 Rank? 
 
 Total received from the State Equalizing Fund? 
 
 Rank? Compare with the rank of the 
 
 county in per capita wealth. Conclusions ? 
 
 Total spent for buildings and supplies, 1912-13: Rural 
 
 Schools? Town schools? Compari- 
 
 sons? Conclusions ? 
 
 Total spent for school libraries, 1912-13: Rural schools? 
 Town schools? Comparisons? 
 
 Conclusions ? 
 
 3. School attendance 1912-13: 
 
 (1) 
 
 (2) 
 
 (3) 
 
 White school population? Enrollment ? 
 Per cent of the school population? 
 
 Rank of the county in this particular? 
 Why above or below the State average? 
 
 White average daily attendance? 
 Per cent of the enrollment? 
 Rank of the county? 
 Why above or below the State average? 
 
 Total white school population, town? Country ? 
 Enrollment, town? Country ? 
 Per cent enrolled, town? Country? 
 In daily attendance, town? Country? 
 Per cent of enrollment, town? Country? ~ 
 Do the white children in towns attend school better than 
 in the country? If so, why? 
 Negro school population? Enrollment ? 
 
 Per cent of the school population? 
 Compare with white enrollment per cent? 
 Conclusions ? 
 
 Negro average daily attendance? 
 
 Per cent of the total enrollment? 
 
 Compare with the white attendance per cent? 
 
 Conclusions? 
 
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 (4) Total Negro school population, town? Country? 
 Enrollment, town? Country ? 
 Per cent enrolled, town? Country ? 
 In daily attendance, town? Country ? 
 Per cent of enrollment, town? Country? 
 
 Do the negro children attend school better in the towns, 
 where school terms are longer and opportunities greater, 
 than in the country? Why or why not? 
 
 What are the facts in the Northern and Western cities? 
 
 4. Teachers’ salaries, average per year, IQI2-13: 
 (1) Whites, in town? In the country? 
 Effect of lower salaries in country districts? 
 
 Rank of the county in average town salaries? 
 Country salaries? 
 
 Are these averages above or below the State averages? 
 Why? 
 Per cent gain in average salaries since 1902-03? 
 
 5. school facilities and conditions: 
 
 (1) Average term in days, 1912-13? In 1902-03? 
 White schools, in town? In the country? 
 Why the difference? 
 Negro schools in town? In the country? 
 
 i (2) Total invested in school property, I912-13: 
 
 White schools, in town? Average per child of 
 school age? 
 White schools, in the country? Average per 
 
 child of school age? 
 Are these averages above or below the State averages? 
 
 Why? 
 
 Negro schools, in town? Average per child of 
 school age? 
 
 Negro schools, in the country? Average per 
 
 child of school age? 
 Are these averages above or below State averages? 
 Per cent gain in total school property since 1902-03? 
 
 (3) Number of school districts, 1912-13: 
 White? : Colored? 
 Districts with log school houses: 
 White? Colored? 
 Compare with other counties? - Conclusions? 
 Decrease since 1902-03: 
 White? Colored? 
 
BY: 
 
 6. 
 
 (4) 
 
 (5) 
 
 (6) 
 
 (7) 
 
 (1) 
 
 SYLLABUS OF HomeE-CouNtTYy CLUB STUDIES 
 
 Districts without school houses: 
 
 White? ) Colored? 
 
 Compare with other counties? Conclusions? 
 Decrease since 1902-03: 
 
 White? Colored? 
 
 Rural schools, having two or more teachers: 
 
 White? Colored? 
 
 Per cent of the total, 
 
 White? Colored? 
 
 Rank of the county, only white schools considered? 
 Why above or below the State average? 
 
 Rural school houses, 1912-13: 
 
 With patent desks, White? Per ‘cent 70 
 white schools? Rank? 
 With patent desks, Negro? Per cent of 
 Negro schools? Rank? 
 With benches, White? Per cent of white 
 schools? Rank? 
 With benches, Negro? Per cent of Negro 
 schools? Rank? 
 
 New houses built for whites: number? Total 
 cost? Rank? 
 
 New houses built for negroes: number? Total 
 cost? Rank? 
 
 Compare the average cost of new rural school houses 
 with State averages. Why above or below the State 
 average? ? 
 Scholarship and training of teachers, 1912-13: 
 White teachers, total number? Per cent holding 
 first grade certificates ? Per cent having normal 
 training? Per cent holding college diplomas? 
 Are these per cents above or below the State averages? 
 Why? 
 What per cent of the white teachers of the county were 
 born or reared in other counties? In other 
 States? Mainly, in what other States? 
 What per cent of the white teachers in the county are 
 this year teaching the same school the second year? 
 the third year? longer terms? 
 
 Indications of progress: 
 
 Review carefully the facts, comparisons, and conclusions, 
 noted in the school studies above, and assemble in com- 
 pact paragraphs (1) the gains the county has made since 
 
UNIVERSITY OF NoRTH CAROLINA 33 
 
 1902-03, when compared with itself or with other coun- 
 ties in the State and (2) note frankly the losses, absolute 
 or relative. 
 
 (2) Single out, for appropriate treatment, successes, if any 
 in (1) the consolidation of schools and the transporta- 
 tion of children, (2) the employment of school supervi- 
 sors, or special department teachers, (3) the erection of 
 handsome school buildings, (4) the establishment of coun- 
 try-life schools, (5) the adoption of a county-unit system, 
 (6) school fairs, (7) school debates and athletic events, 
 (8) schools that are centers of organized community 
 life, (9) school clubs, and (10) school gardens or farms. 
 Or successes of any other sort. 
 
 Also (1) noble, noteworthy teachers or institutions of 
 former days, (2) successful private schools, and (3) 
 schools of college rank located in the county. 
 
 1. Rural high schools (white) : 1907-08 IQI2-13 
 (1) Offering four-year courses? Gain % 
 Three-year courses? Gain % 
 Two-year courses? Gain % 
 Total Gain % 
 Rank in the number of such high schools in 1912-13. 
 (2) Rural high school teachers, 1907-08? IQ12-13? 
 Gain % 
 Total high school pupils, 1907-08? 1912-13? 
 Gain % 
 Average term, 1907-08? 1912-13? 
 Gain % 
 (3) Rural high school income: total 1907-08? 
 1912-13? Gain % . 
 From State funds? 1907-08 ? IQI2-13? 
 Per cent of total? Per cent of total? 
 From county and local tax funds? 1907-08 ? 
 IQ12-13? 
 Per cent of total? Per cent of total? 
 
 (4) Number of high school graduates now attending colleges? 
 
 (5) Treat briefly rural high school progress in the county 
 during the five-year period. Is the country keeping pace 
 with the towns in your county in high school develop- 
 ment? If not, why not? 
 
 8. Subjects for theses or discussion: Is Education a Deterrent of 
 Crime? Intelligence and the Production of Wealth. The Dif- 
 
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 SyLLABUS OF HomE-County CLuB STUDIES 
 
 fusion of Intelligence and the Retention of Wealth? Intelligence 
 and Democracy. Intelligence and Co-operative Farm Enterprise. 
 The Florida Plan of County-Unit School Systems. Inferior Coun- 
 try Schools and the Drift Cityward. Illiteracy among native 
 whites in North Carolina in the country averages three times the 
 illiteracy rate in the towns and cities—why? Is the Negro Losing 
 Faith in Spelling Books and Graining Faith in Bank Books; 
 the facts, the causes, the outlook? The Teacher’s Salary; a 
 study in contrasts. The Effect of Lower Salaries in the Country 
 Schools. The Country School of Permanent Influence; necessary 
 conditions of success. The Broken School-Term in North Caro- 
 lina; the effects. Our Grasshopper Plague of Public School 
 Teachers. Frequent Changes of Teachers; causes, consequences. 
 The Socialized Country School; meaning, obstacles, successes. 
 The John Swaney Country School, Illinois. The School, a Cen- 
 ter of Community-Life. The School Fair in Virginia. An Argu- 
 ment in Favor of a Local School Tax; in favor of Consolidated 
 Country Schools. The Public High School—the ‘People’s College. 
 The Page County, lowa, Country Schools. School Improvement 
 Clubs in North Carolina; purposes, achievements. Training Teach- 
 ers for Country Schools. The Danish Folk Schools. The Coun- 
 ty School Superintendent; an Educational Leader. The West Vir- 
 ginia Plan of County Supervision. The Waste of Public Money 
 in Non-Attendance. The Wonderful High School Development in 
 North Carolina. 
 
 Sources of information. 
 
 XIV. PUBLIC HEALTH AND SANITATION 
 
 Give me health and a day and I will make the pomp of emper- 
 ors ridiculous.— EMERSON. 
 
 There are 16,000 preventable or postponable deaths in North 
 Carolina every year! One every half hour, day and night! 
 
 Six thousand deaths from tuberculosis alone! And babies— 
 3,000 of them die every summer, a third or more of them killed 
 by flv-carried diseases.—Ficures FRoM N. C. HeEaLtH BULLETINS. 
 
 The highest percentage of insanity in the United States is 
 among farmers’ wives—due chiefly to overwork, overworry, 
 and the lack of proper amusements and recreationn—HrEnry N. 
 OcveN, in Rural Hygiene. 
 
 Indicate the ways in which your County Health Board and 
 Health officer are actively campaigning against preventable di- 
 seases—malaria, typhoid, tuberculosis, small-pox, and the like. 
 List fully the forms of their activity—say, educative articles 
 in the county paper, addresses on public health and sanitation, 
 
UNIVERSITY OF NortH CAROLINA 35 
 
 circulating the Bulletins of the State Board of Health, co-oper- 
 ating with the school authorities in the medical inspection of 
 school children, health rallies, clean-up events, and so on. 
 
 If active, give the addresses of the leaders. 
 
 If inactive, why? 
 
 What attention has been given in your county to sanitary toilets 
 on home or school grounds, to garbage and sewage disposal, soil 
 and stream pollution, the safety of drinking waters in springs 
 and wells; the protection of drainage areas of city water sys- 
 tems; sanitary dairies and milk supplies, the sanitary butchering 
 and vending of meats, the screening of homes against flies and 
 mosquitoes, the sanitary handling of food stuffs at soda water 
 stands, in ice cream parlors, in shops, in hotel and restaurant 
 kitchens. 
 
 Are dairies and milk depots, butcher pens and shops, baker- 
 ies, restaurants, hotel kitchens and the like inspected competent- 
 ly and regularly? If not, why? 
 
 Are the reports of the inspector published in the city or county 
 papers? 
 
 Are there laws or ordinances covering the sale of impure or 
 adulterated foods, feeds, and drugs in your county? Enacted by 
 what body? Are they enforced? If not, why? 
 
 Commonly, the old-time Health Officer has attended the charity 
 cases, and the sick in the poorhouse, jail, and chain gang. He 
 took charge of small-pox, and similar epidemics, enforced quaran- 
 tine regulations and so on. 
 
 If he is otherwise active in your county, indicate the ways, in 
 detail. What is his salary? What were the total expenditures 
 of the County Health Board for the last year? 
 
 If the old-time system can be improved, suggest the ways. 
 
 The Hookworm campaign in your county: activities, results? 
 
 Is there a City Health Board and Health Officer in your county? 
 If so, report their activities as per the above outline. 
 
 Or have the City and the County Health Board united, and em- 
 ployed an All-Time Health Officer? Give an account of his ac- 
 tivities and successes, if any. Make collateral study of the sanitary 
 campaigns in Nash, Columbus, Robeson and Sampson counties. 
 Are the churches and ministers of your county actively interest- 
 ed in community health conditions and problems? Indicate the 
 most active, and give an account of their activities. 
 
 Is there a County Medical Association? Is it alert and vigorous? 
 If possible, secure the programs for a half-dozen or so of the 
 meetings. 
 
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 SYLLABUS OF HomE-CountTy CLuB SYTuDIES 
 
 Is the subject of Preventable Diseases and Public Sanitation 
 prominent in these programs? Conclusions? 
 
 9. Consult the registrars of vital statistics and secure answers to 
 the following questions for the year ending July 1, I914: 
 
 (1) 
 
 (2) 
 
 (3) 
 (4) 
 (5) 
 (6) 
 (7) 
 (8) 
 
 (9) 
 
 (1) 
 
 Total births? Birth rate? 
 
 Total illegitimate births? Per cent of the 
 total? 
 
 Total deaths? Death rate? 
 
 Number of deaths from preventable diseases? 
 Per. cent, of the. total? 
 
 Total deaths of children, under 5 years of age? 
 Per cent of the total? E 
 
 Compare the birth rates of whites and negroes? 
 Conclusions? 
 
 Compare the town and the country birth rates? 
 Conclusions ? 
 
 Compare the death rates of whites and negroes; also 
 of town and country dwellers. Conclusions? 
 
 Arrange the causes of death in the order of numerical 
 importance. Which of them are preventable? 
 
 What is the per cent of natural increase (excess of births 
 
 over deaths) in your county? Compare with 
 _ the 1910 census figures, showing the population increase 
 of the county from 1909 to 1910? Conclusions? 
 The rank of the county in birth rate? In 
 
 death rate? 
 
 Are these averages above or below the State averages? 
 Why? 
 
 Note: Our new vital statistics law went into effect July 
 
 I, 1913. It will take several years to put it into general 
 and reasonably successful operation. Meanwhile the re- 
 cords and reports will enable students to do barely more 
 than guess at the facts of birth and death in the State; 
 or so, such laws in other states considered. 
 
 The number of physicians in your county: 
 
 White? Negro? Total 
 
 How many belong to any medical association whatsoever? 
 The number of midwives: White? Negro? 
 
 Total? 
 
 The number of undertakers: White? Negro? 
 
 Total? 
 
UNIVERSITY OF NortH CAROLINA 37, 
 
 9g. Subjects for these or discussions: The New Science of Preven- 
 
 Io. 
 
 tative Medicine. The Miracle of Modern Sanitation. Public 
 Health and Sanitation. Disease Carriers—Human and Animal. 
 Needless Deaths in North Carolina. The North Carolina State 
 Health Board, and its Work. Louisiana’s Clean-up Campaign. 
 Sanitary Food Supplies; competent, thorough inspection, and 
 public reports. The Whole-Time County Health Officer. The 
 Community Sanitary Campaigns in Nash, Sampson, Robeson and 
 Columbus Counties. The Hookworm Campaign in North Caro- 
 lina. The Alamance Hookworm Campaign. Our New Vital 
 Statistics Law. 
 
 The Public School and its Relation to Public Health. Things 
 that Every Teacher Ought to Know about the Physical Well- 
 being of children. ‘The Teacher-Citizen-Patriot. The Medical 
 Inspection of School Children, School houses, and School grounds. 
 
 “De, Washburn’s Score-Card. McNider’s School Health-Clubs. 
 
 The English call our civilization, A Patent Medicine Civiliza- 
 tion—is it so? Recreation and Health. Overwork and Worry. 
 The Social Diseases; prevalence and social consequences. The 
 Black Plague and the White Plague; a study in contrasts. The 
 Commonest Cause of Blindness in Children. Midwives; regis- 
 tration, regulation. 
 
 The Church in its Relation to Community Health Problems. 
 The Priest, the Levite, and the Good Samarian. The Preacher- 
 Citizen-Patriot. 
 
 The Negro: a Study in Community Health and Social Hy- 
 giene. 
 
 Things about which everybody needs intelligent information: 
 (1) Emergencies—the things to do at once; (2) The Common 
 Contagious or Infectious Diseases—their germination periods, 
 stages of infection, isolation requirements; (3) Consumption— 
 extent, causes of infection, the tragedy of quacks and nostrums; 
 (4) Typhoid—causes, vaccination; Diphtheria, Lockjaw, Menin- 
 gitis, Hydrophobia, and Modern Serum Treatments; (5) Con- 
 sumption and Cancer—Patent Medicines and Quack Doctors; 
 (6) Alcohol—its Economic and Social Effects. 
 
 Sources of information. 
 
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 SyLLABUS OF HomE-CountTy CLUB STUDIES 
 
 XV. CHURCH AND SUNDAY SCHOOL PROBLEMS 
 
 Nearly seven-eights of all our people are country dwellers. 
 If served and saved, they must be served and saved by the country 
 church. 
 
 The country church is not a phase of church work—not merely 
 a home mission matter; it is nearly nine-tenths of our entire 
 church problem in North Carolina. 
 
 The city is the final challenge to Christianity; but the country 
 church is the recruiting station for thé warfare-——THE FarM AND 
 HOMESTEAD. : 
 
 The life and well-being of the church in the city depends upon 
 the life and well-being of the church in the countryside. 
 
 The cities cannot be relied on to furnish the Christian leaders 
 of the future—Joun R. Mort. 
 
 Five-sixths of the ministers and six-sevenths. of the college pro- 
 fessors of America were born and reared in the country.—J. O. 
 ASHENHURST. 
 
 In most cases the country church is gradually, and im some 
 cases swiftly, losing ground.—WarRREN H. WILSON. 
 
 Over three million white children in the South are outside the 
 Sunday Schools.—R. E. Maciuu. 
 
 Submit this outline of Church and Sunday School studies to the 
 ministers of your county. ‘They will be able to suggest wise 
 amendments, and the addition or omission of certain inquiries. 
 The final summaries cover only gross totals, without any re- 
 ference whatsoever to individual ministers, churches, or deno- 
 minations. The simple, single, sole purpose of these studies is 
 to ascertain the exact status of the country church—the abun- 
 dant harvest fields around every church center, the fewness of 
 the laborers, and our responsibilities to the Lord of the Harvest. 
 
 The ministers of your county can well afford to know as much 
 about the people they serve, as the competent, devoted doctor 
 seeks to know about the patient he waits upon. When they un- 
 derstand your purpose, they will help you with counsel and advice; 
 in many instances they will undertake this church survey them- 
 selves. 
 
 Upon a county map, mark the location of all churches, town 
 and country. (1) Mark white and negro churches differently. 
 (2) Catalogue the churches, giving the name of the minister serv- 
 ing each, and his home post office. A catalogue for each race. 
 (1) The number of churches: White? Negro? 
 Total? 
 
 (2) Churches located in villages, towns, cities—number? In 
 the country? 
 
 (3) Congregations having no church building—number? 
 (4) Churches without pastors—number? 
 
UNIVERSITY OF NortH CAROLINA 39 
 
 (5) Churches that are mission charges—number? 
 (6) Churches that have gone out of existence within the last 
 twenty-five years? Give names, if possible. 
 
 3. Church studies. 
 
 Secure the following information about each church: 
 Cry, Name?  Location?.-. County? Race? 
 
 (2) How old? Does the church own a building? 
 
 (3) Is it a village, town, or city church? or a country church? 
 
 (4) Pastor’s name? Home P. O.? County? 
 
 (5) Does the church own a home for the pastor? How near 
 the church? Does he occupy it at present? 
 
 (6) Does the pastor live in the neighborhood? Or 
 in the county? . Or in another county? 
 
 (7) Is there preaching once a month? Or twice a 
 month? Or oftener? 
 
 (8) Number of members at present? 
 Gain in membership since 1900: 
 By profession of faith? Under 21 years old? 
 By letter from other churches? 
 Loss by death, removal, or otherwise, since 1906? 
 (9) Members who are land and home owners—number? 
 (10) Members who are tenants or renters—number? 
 (11) Value of church property? 
 
 4. Sunday School studies: 
 
 5. 
 
 6. 
 
 5 
 
 (1) Does the church have a Sunday School? The 
 
 . superintendent’s name and P. O.? 
 
 (2) Number of teachers and officers? 
 
 (3) Number of pupils? 
 
 (4) Sor Total 
 
 (5) Does it meet every Sunday? For how many 
 months of the year? 
 
 Union Sunday Schools—note the existence and number of such 
 schools; in what churches they meet; the total number of teach- 
 ers and pupils? Also the Sunday Schools that exist indepen- 
 dently of congregations or churches; where they meet; the num- 
 ber of teachers and pupils. 
 
 Compare total church membership with the total for the county 
 in 1906. (Census of “Religious Bodies). Conclusions? 
 
 When assembled and interpreted, the answers to these inquiries 
 help to determine: 
 
 (1) The number of people in the county who are outside the 
 churches. 
 
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 SyLLABUS OF HomE-CouNntTY CLUB STUDIES 
 
 (2) The number of children of each race, who are outside the 
 Sunday School. 
 
 (3) The sections of the county that are under-churched or 
 over-churched. 
 
 (4) Whether or not the churches, served by absentee pastors 
 with once-a-month sermons, are growing, standing still, 
 or dying. 
 
 (5) Whether or not the churches are reaching the landless, 
 homeless, restless tenants and their families. 
 
 (6) What effect farm tenancy has upon the country church. 
 
 (7) Why the burden of country church support is so heavy 
 upon a few shoulders. And other like important ques- 
 tions. 
 
 Subjects for théses or discussions: ‘The Status of the Country 
 Church. The Country Church and its Relation to the Country- 
 Life Problem. The Country Church and its Relation to Urban 
 Civilization. The Cry for Ordained Men in all the Religious 
 Bodies and the Response. The Need of Consecrated Laymen. 
 
 Our rural churches are on the decline, in numbers, spiritual 
 power and usefulness, says Dr. J. O. Ashenhurst.—Is it so? 
 What are the facts in the country-at-large? The causes? The 
 consequences? 
 
 Sixteen hundred churches of two denominations have gone out 
 of existence in the South; 1700 in Illinois, and around 750 in 
 Missouri, says Dr. Henry Wallace—What are the facts in 
 North Carolina? Where is the country church making progress? 
 Where marking time? Where losing ground, dying or dead? The 
 causes? ‘The consequences? 
 
 The Field for Church Activities at Home. Church members in 
 North Carolina in 1906, numbered 540,674 white, and 283,707 
 negro, or 824,385 all told. Nearly 58 per cent of the total popu- 
 lation, or 1,235,000 people, were outside the Church. Church mem- 
 bership ranged from I8 per cent in one county to 73 per cent in 
 another. In five counties more than three-fourths of the people 
 were outside the church.—Figures based on the 1906 census of 
 Religious Bodies. 
 
 The Field for Sunday School Activities at Home. Sixteen 
 hundred and thirty-three churches in North Carolina in 1906 had 
 no Sunday Schools; and 222,348 children of school age or nearly 
 one-third of them all were outside the Sunday Schools.—Figures 
 based on the 1906 census of Religious Bodies. 
 
 Over three million white children in the South are not in 
 the Sunday Schools, says R. E. Magill—What are the facts in 
 North Carolina? The causes? The consequences? The rem- 
 edies? 
 
UNIVERSITY OF NortTH CAROLINA 41 
 
 The Re-directed Country Church; meaning, necessity, ob- 
 stacles, instances. The Absentee-Preacher, who preaches where he 
 does not live, and lives where he does not preach. The Once-a- 
 Month Sermon. Is the Church Reaching the Tenant Farmer? 
 Farm Tenancy and its Effect upon the Country Church. The 
 Cityward Drift and the Loss of Rural Leadership; causes, con- 
 sequences. Carver’s Religion of Efficiency. Over-Churched 
 Communities in North Carolina; the facts, the consequences. 
 
 The Country Church-Home for the Pastor; the facts in North 
 Carolina, the consequences. The Country Church and its Mes- 
 sage upon Co-operation. The Church and its Message upon Land 
 Monopoly. 
 
 XVI. THE FARM HOME 
 
 Civilization is rooted and grounded in the home-owning, home- 
 loving, home-defending instinct.—Tur HoME AND FARMSTEAD. 
 
 The farm home has resisted the disintegrating influences of 
 modern industrial civilization better than any other home in 
 Christendom.—THE HomME AND FARMSTEAD. 
 
 A great national peril lies in our steadily increasing land- 
 less, homeless multitudes. Nearly eleven million families in the 
 United States, or 54%. of them all, live in rented dwellings. 
 More than one-third of the farmers and three-fifths of the city 
 dwellers in the country-at-large are tenants and renters. 
 
 In North Carolina, in the census year, 1,136,000 of our people 
 were homeless; and 650,000 of them were white people! Two- 
 fifths of our farmers and nearly two-thirds of our city dwellers 
 were renters. 
 
 In Raleigh and Charlotte the families living in their own homes 
 were only 28% of the total; in Asheville, only 31%, and in 
 Wilmington, only 40%. The rest were tenants—from three- 
 fifths to nearly three-fourths of all the families in these cities. 
 
 In general the more densely populated and prosperous a’ com- 
 munity becomes, the fewer are the people who own the homes 
 they live in. In five of our large American cities, more than 
 four-fifths of the families live in rented homes; in New York City 
 as a whole, nearly nine-tenths of them! 
 
 The chances of the landless, homeless man are steadily dwind- 
 ling; and therein lies a peril, both for him and the community 
 
 and country in which he lives.—FicurEs BASED ON THE 1910 
 CENSUS. 
 
 Number of farm dwellings in the county: occupied by white 
 
 families ? Negro families? ‘otaus 
 
 Number owned by the occupants: 
 
 White? Negro? Total? 
 
 Number with (1) telephones? (2) rural mail deliver- 
 
 ies? (3) daily newspapers? (4) weekly pa- 
 
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 12. 
 
 SYLLABUS OF HomkE-County CiLuB STUDIES 
 
 pers? (5) popular magazines? (6) farm jour- 
 nals? (7) library books? (8) water pipe sys- 
 tem for kitchen? (9) for bath tubs? (10) kit- 
 chen sinks with sewage drains? (11) labor-saving laun- 
 dry machinery? (12) sewing machines? (13) 
 toilet rooms? (14) out-houses for toilet purposes? 
 
 (15) sanitary out-houses ? (16) homes with electric or 
 gas lights? (17) pianos and other musical instru- 
 ments ? (18) with games—chess, checkers and the 
 
 like? (19) gasoline engines or other motor power? 
 (20) improved farm utensils? 
 
 Give brief account of some farm home having many or most of 
 these equipments. 
 
 What plays and games are common among the children in and 
 around the homes? On the school grounds? 
 Make a careful, full catalogue of these games and amusements. 
 Is story-telling a common form of amusement? 
 
 Conclusions, on the whole, concerning the comforts, conven-— 
 iences, luxuries and recreations in the farm homes of your 
 county. 
 
 Rise in farm-land values, during the last census period? 
 
 Rank? Why above or below the State average, (141.7 %)? 
 Causes? Effects ? 
 Marriages: 
 1910, White? Negro? Total? 
 1913, White? Negro? Total? 
 Increase Y White? Negrorieron Wotatr 
 Divorces: 
 1910, White? Negro? Total? 
 1913, White? Negro? Total? 
 Increase % White? Negro? Total? 
 Ratio of divorces among farm dwellers to divorces among town 
 dwellers? Why the difference? 
 What events or occasions, regular or occasional, bring the people 
 together? Which is the most important? Why? 
 
 Vacation study: Select a well defined neighborhood or commun- 
 ity center, and make a Country-Home Survey. eS therefor 
 will be furnished upon application. 
 
 Subjects for theses or discussions: ‘The Urbanizing of Country- 
 Life: tendencies, advantages, dangers. Native Country-Life In- 
 terests and Attractions: qualities and values. Speculative In- 
 
UNIVvERSITY OF NortH CAROLINA Ade 
 
 terest in the Farm Home: effects. Social Hunger: Does the Farm- 
 Home Satisfy it? Culture and Agriculture. Recreation and Re- 
 creation. Why the Farm-Home Develops Leadership. The Sta- 
 bility and Strength of the Country Home. Ideals for the Country 
 Home. The Negro under Country and under Ciry Conditions. 
 
 13. Sources of information. 
 
 THE NORTH CAROLINA CLUB ORGANIZES 
 
 The North Carolina Club was organized on Friday evening, Septem- 
 ber 25th, in Gerrard Hall. Prof. EK. C. Branson was elected president 
 of the Club and Mr. Frank P. Graham secretary. A large and inter- 
 ested crowd of students and members of the faculty was present at 
 this meeting. 
 
 The North Carolina Club is the central body of the various county 
 clubs of the University. It is the forum for various definite discussions 
 and fact gatherings as to North Carolina’s economic and social resour- 
 ces and needs. It is a pioneer clib among American universities, work- 
 ing in a field of intense human interest, fingering the mud-sill facts of 
 the life of the people of the State. 
 
 Prof. Branson’s idea of “Know Your Own Home County” is spread- 
 ing rapidly until soon it will have permeated through the entire stu- 
 dent body of the University out into every corner and secticn of the 
 State. 
 
 The steering committee of the club consists of Dr. J. G. de Roulhac 
 Hamilton, professor of history; George Eutsler, Greensboro; J. A. 
 Capps, Bessemer City; L. Bruce Gunter, Wake County; Francis Brad- 
 shaw, Hillsboro. The promotion and publicity committee consists of 
 W. P. Fuller, Florida; $. R. Winters, Granville County; Fred R. 
 Yoder, Catawba County; Hugh Hester, Granville County. 
 
 Thirteen of the county clubs of the University have already organ- 
 ized for this year’s work: Beaufort, Buncombe, Burke, Catawba, 
 Cleveland, Gaston, Granville, Iredell, Johnston, Pender, Rowan, Samp- 
 son, Wayne. Other county clubs will organize within the next few 
 days.—Alumni Review. 
 
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