MA':' 2 



TRANSACTIONS OF THE 



GONNECTICDT ACADEMY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES 



VOLUME 20. PAGES 241-399 APRIL. 1916 



Rural Economy in New England 



at the Beginning of the 



Nineteenth Century 



BY 



PERCY WELLS BIDWELL, Ph.D. 



Instructor in Economics in Yale University 



NEW HAVEN, CONN 

 1916 



