INDI-.X 



973 



Labor, productivity of agricultural, as 

 affected by machinery, 43 ; agricul- 

 tural, 547; English agricultural, 558 



Labor income, of farmer 576, 585 



Labor saving by machinery, 44, 5 1 



Land grants, to states, 261 ; to rail- 

 roads, 262 



Land reform in England, proposals 

 for, 400 



Land tenure, 352 ; in France, 410 ; in 

 ^ium and Holland, 433 



Landowning farmers in England, 

 204 



Landschaften, 958 



Laveleye, mile de, 433 



Leslie, T. E. Cliffe, 410 



Machinery, influence of, 32 ; history 

 of, 33 ; influence of, on general 

 welfare of independent farm oper- 

 ators, 82 



M. Vey, Frank L., 666 



Manorial system in Germany, 225, 



239 



Manure, use of, in Flanders, 435 

 Marketing, of farm products, 764; 

 studies in egg-, 783 ; of farm prod- 

 ucts in France, 851; of butter in 

 Charcntc, 851 ; of butter in Allicr, 

 856; of butter in Normandy, 858 ; 

 of Danish butter in England, 865; 

 of peaches in Lyons, 874; of gages 

 from Agcn, 88 1 ; of vegetables in 

 London, 883; of onions and fruit 

 in London, 887; of onions in 

 ^S8; of potatoes in 

 Chester, 890 



cts, mediaeval produce, 827 

 Middle Ages, agriculture in, 151 

 Minnesota, wheat production in, 

 338 



Mortgage indebtedness in the I 

 States, 938 



Negro farmers, per cent of in South- 

 ern States, 528. 532 



Omaha platform of Populist Party, 670 

 Organization, rural, 764 

 Ownership of land, 352 



Parcel post, 570 



Patrons of Husbandry, 646 



People's Party, 667 ; financial 

 of, 634 



Phosphate rock, exportation of, 127 



Pierson, Charles W 



Plow, early use of, in America, 34; 

 Daniel Webster's, 35 



Plowing in medieval agriculture 



Policy, national, with respect to agri- 

 culture, 898 



Pope, J. E., 936 



Population, shifting of, 60; increase of 

 agricultural, during Civil War,3i2 



Populist movement, the, 666 

 ill." 655 



Pre-emption acts, 258 



is, 101 ; in England 

 from 1 797 to 1 833, 205 ; in medi- 

 eval times, 162; of farm products 

 in United States from 1885 to 1895. 

 719; cold storage of eggs, numbers 



so 2 



352; arguments in 

 mcstic aspects 



J93 



Profits of farmii 



large farms, 596; relati-m f crop 

 yields to, 600 ; on diversified farms, 

 616 -it farmers. 640; of 



landlords 



