The gas engine which pumps the water runs the corn sheller or the wood saw.

The rural telephone spreads like a web over the countryside.

Into these houses the carrier brings the daily or semi-weekly paper from the neighboring town, agricultural journals, and some magazines of national circulation; a piano stands in the parlor; and perhaps a college pennant or two hang somewhere, for many farm boys and girls go to college.

In spite of the short terms of the public schools, many manage to get some sort of preparation for college, and in the South more college students come from farm homes than from town or city.

This encouraging picture is true, no less than the other, and the number of such progressive farm homes is fortunately growing larger.
A greater range of products is being cultivated throughout the South, though more cotton and tobacco are being produced than ever before.