INDEX 



441 



Farm crop insects and diseases, 18 

 crops, factors of uncertainty, 17 

 employment, irregular, 105 

 expenses, 88 

 family size, 46, 47 

 house conveniences, 91 

 household labor on the decline, 



103 



income, 89, 434 

 Journal, 281 



labor exchange, national, 105 

 Federal government and, 



105 



immigration and, 109 

 problems in England, 96 

 question, several aspects of, 



96 



supply of, 194 

 wage in England, 96 

 wages of, on the increase 



100 



laborer, life of, 110 

 land, future ownership of, 13 

 of United States and Canada, 



419 



rise in selling price of, 27 

 large, views of, 48 

 lease tenure, 62 

 machinery, American, in Siberia, 



124 



annual depreciation on, 252 

 labor-saving, 108 

 purchase of, 117 

 management, office of, 321 

 mortgages increasing, 69 

 organizations, federation of, 287 

 owners, age of, 64 

 paper, best type of, 279 

 point of view of, 279 

 the specialized, 282 

 two policies in editing, 284 

 worst type of, 280 

 papers, other types of, 281 

 prices, trend of, chart, 226 

 problem in the United States, 



40 

 produce, perishable, shipping by 



parcel post, 142 

 product receipts, 88 

 products, cost of production and 



price, 233 

 marketing of, 145 

 standardizing and advertis- 

 ing of, 43 

 property, value of, for years 



1850-1910, 3 



tenancy, declaration on, 81 

 in Canada, per cent, 81 



Farm tenancy, in Missouri, 65 

 in Wisconsin, 65 

 Wallace, H., on, 81 

 wages, statistics, 101 

 work, by women, decline since 



1871, 101 

 in Germany, 38 

 of foreign birth, 102 

 Farms, average size of in United 



States, 51 



operated by tenants increase 

 faster than those operated by 

 owners, 4 

 per cent mortgaged, 79 



operated by tenants, 80 

 size of, 67 

 small, in France, 33 

 two rehabilitated, 433 

 Farmer, American, other occupations 



of, 107 



and railroad, the, 191 

 and the terminal market, 347 

 direct State aid for, 312 

 economic condition of, chapter 



on, 83 

 German, living conditions of, 37 



customs of, 36 

 in business, 311 

 other attractions for, 92 

 prosperous Icelandic, in North 



Dakota, 93 

 State aid for the, 312 

 Farmers and the I. W. W., 100 

 better business for, 7 

 Chinese and Japanese, 254, 428 

 cooperation among, largest ex- 

 ample of, 165-168 

 number and supply of, 104 

 of Alabama, 44 

 of forty centuries, 428 

 political organizations of, 301 



economic background 



of, 302 



shifting of, 81 

 Farmers' capital, 88 



cooperative insurance companies, 



205 



trucks, 200 



economic income too low, 92 

 Educational and Cooperative 



Union of America, 311 

 elevator movement, immediate 



effect of, 359 

 weakness of, 359 

 elevators copy "regulars," 359 



in Canada, 359 



grain elevators in United States, 

 301 



