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 THE MONOGRAPH OF THE COMMUNITY 1 1 3

Characteristics of food, clothing, and shelter. — Morals. — Habits of thrift. — Intemperance. — Indigent members of the community, methods of dealing with. — Charitable institutions. — Societies for mutual aid and improvement.

Analysis of present conditions of the community. — i. Physical description. — Situation, climate, soil, moisture. — Means of access to community. — 2. The population. — Distribution according to age, sex, occupation, and civil status. — 3. Emigration and immigration. — Currents of emigration ; their causes ; their direction ; their results ; do the emigrants return to the com- munity ? — Currents of immigration ; are they, intermittent, periodic, or con- stant ? — 4. Division of property. — Enumeration of holdings classified as to size. — Ease and frequency with which property ownership is transferred from one person to another. — Sales and e.\ecutions. — Property held in common. — 5. Methods of management and operation, i. e., renting, " on shares," cash, etc. — 6. Different crops cultivated by the population. — 7. Instruction in agri- culture. — Experiment stations. — Agricultural conferences, etc. — 8. Local industries, i. c, other than agriculture. — g. Methods of remunerating labor. — Payment in money, in kind, variations in methods due to differing seasons, occupations, etc. — Scarcity or abundance of day labor. — 10. Conditions of the agricultural population with regard to food, clothing, shelter, etc., of the vari- ous classes. — 11. Economic rewards. — Price of agricultural products and of supplies needed by the population ; general economic conditions. — 12. Agri- cultural associations of various kinds ; for production and sale of products, purchase of supplies, etc. — 13. Frugality and provident habits. — Institutions for the promotion of thrift and economy. — 14. Methods and means of carittg for the dependent, defective, and delinquent members of the community. — 15. Religious and ethical status of the population — moral ideals and character- istics. — 16. Relations of each class in the community to the others, i. e., between landowners and tenants, the poor and the wealthy, etc. — General welfare of the community and its probable future.

At first thought this schedule may seem somewhat too ambitious. Its proportions are vast, its divisions are vague ; but with regard to the divisions, it may be noted that in any given instance they will not all be of equal importance. The schedule, with its divisions, might be likened to an escritoire with its numerous drawers and pigeonholes. These various compartments retain their relation to each other and to the whole, yet the user of the desk does not pretend to keep them equally well filled; he places in each only such articles as circumstances and personal convenience may dictate. So with the schedule and its divi- sions, 'i he latter may retain their respective places in the outline without being put to equal use by the investigator. The characteris- tics of the given community and the convenience of the student will largely determine the extent to which a particular division will be used.