Description: Acknowledgments Introduction 1. "I Would Rather Live in the Country": A Child's Place 2. "But What Kind of Work Do the Rest of You Do?": Farm Children as Laborers 3. "We Have Splendid Times at School": Farm Children and Education 4. "Today Is the First School-Day": Farm Youth as Rural Teachers: The Stories of Hermann Benke and Rhoda Emery Photographic Essay. Growing Up in Dodge County, Wisconsin 5. "It Surely Pays to Go to a Circus": Farm Children and Youth at Play 6. "This Case Is a Peculiarly Hard One": Farm Child Welfare and the State 7. "I Wouldn't Live in the City Always for Anything": Growing Up and Making Decisions 8. Epilogue: "We Are at Home With the Land": Remembering Farm Childhood Notes Bibliography Index

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