CONTENTS 



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INTRODUCTION i 



I. GENERAL PRINCIPLES 



The Influence of the Crops upon Business in America, by A. P. Andrew 5 

 The Influence of Farm Machinery on Production and Labor, by H. \V. 



Quaintance 32 



Crop Yields and Prices, and our Future Food Supply, by G. F. Warren . 101 



Some Suggestions for City Persons who desire to Farm, by G. F. Warren 1 30 

 Iowa and Bavaria Crop Yields per Acre and per Man, by E. A. 



Goldenweiser 148 



II. AGRICULTURAL HISTORY 



A. EUROPEAN 



Agriculture in the Middle Ages, by William F. Allen 151 



Inclosures in England in the Sixteenth Century, by Edwin F. Gay . . 163 

 in Farming in Oxfordshire from the Sixteenth Century to the 



Nineteenth, by H. L. Gray t 183 



The Decline of Landowning Farmers in England, by H. C. Taylor . . 204 

 The Epochs of German Agrarian History and Agrarian Policy, by I >i . 



Carl J. Fuchs 



B. AMERICAN 



'isposition of Our Public Lands, by A. B. Hart 254 



Southern Agriculture, 1790-1860, by M. B. Hammond 267 



The Agricultural Development of the West during the Civil W T ar, by 



K. I). Kite 302 



Agricultural Development in the United States, 1900-1910, by J. 1.. 



Coulter 317 



The Movement of Wheat-Growing: A Study of a Leading State, by 



C. W. Thompson 337 



III. LAND TENURE 

 A. OwNKksim- 



aw and Custom of Primogeniture, by George C. Brodru k . . . 352 



md System of France, h iffe Leslie . .410 



Tin- Land System of Hel^ium and Holland. by Kmile de l.avi-leyc . . 433 



:m^s in Denmark, by H. i '^gard . . . 478 

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