INDEX 



447 



Raisins, California, distribution, 147 

 Real estate exchanges, 73 

 Reaper, first successful (1831), 116 

 model of 1847, 121 

 model of 1858, 121 

 modern self-binder and, 122 

 References (see Literature) 

 Refrigeration in Moscow, 219 

 Refsell, V. N., Farmers' Elevator 



Movement, 363 

 Rent contract of tenants, 61 

 Report of Bureau of Corporations on 



Lumber Industry, 14 

 Industrial Commission, 14 

 Resources, natural, exploitation and 



conservation of, 7 

 Retailing,Nystromoneconomicsof,150 



system, an ideal, 150 

 Rhodes, J. F., Taxation Problems, 408 

 Road construction, 322 

 Roads, good, 198 



valuable to farmer, 201 

 Roberts, I. P., Fertility of Land, 435 

 Rogers, T., Agricultural Prices in 



England, 244 

 Roosevelt Country Life Commission, 



Report on Farming, 7-10 

 Roosevelt, President, Reforms in 



Grain Trade, 356 

 Rubinow, I. M., Russian Wheat and 



Flour, 422 

 Rural credit in Europe, studied by 



United States, 176 

 credits, publications on, 185, 186 

 districts of England, low wages 



in, 97 



motor express, 199 

 population, decrease of, for 



decade 1900-1910, 114 

 of Middle West, loss in, 



shown, 107 



Russell and Hastings, Agricultural 

 Bacteriology, 436 



Sager, Hiram, American Grain Mer- 

 chant, 357, 358 



Saskatchewan Cooperative Elevator 

 Company, 168 



Scholtz, W. C., of Idaho, 132 



Seasonal production of foods, 214 



Sedgwick, Prof. Wm. T., quoted on 

 cold storage, 221 



Service, selling is a, 149 



Shade, Charles, quoted, 84 



Share croppers, 6i4 

 renters, 64 



Silk culture, 312 



Simons, A. M., on capitalism and 

 agriculture, 55 



Single tax, 393 



applied to city and farm 



land, 396, 397 

 argument for, 394-396 

 definition of, 393 

 incidence of, 393 

 question at issue, 396 

 Size of farms, 67 



Slaughtering, division of labor of, 375 

 Small holdings, an objection to, 36 

 Smith, C. L., Dakota Farmer, 25 

 Social or individual viewpoint con- 

 sidered, 45 

 Soil and the man, 432 



destruction question, 432 

 exhaustion and wheat, 429 



cause of decline of nations, 



431 

 fertility, 430 



losses in, 254 

 Soils, bureau of, 320 

 Speculation and price fluctuations, 



352 



and public interest, 273-275 

 chapter on, 262 

 definitions of, 265 

 its evils, 273 

 its services, 268 

 publi cations on, 276, 277 

 two kinds of, 267 

 Speculator, food, three functions of, 



270 



second function of the, 269 

 Speculators and " the Charter of New 



England 1620," 277 

 Spillman, W. J., quoted, 46, 56 

 Stabilizing prices, 392 

 Standardizing and advertising of 



products, 43 

 State aid for the farmer, chapter 



on, 312 



in sugar beet culture, 312 

 publications on, 327, 328 

 department of agriculture and 



the police power, 315 

 market director, functions of, 134 

 State marketing activities, 131 

 States relation service, 320 

 Stelzle, Charles, quoted, 53 

 Stockyard, Chicago (1861), 372 



fifty years later, 372 

 Strawberry marketing, 162 



Taft, President, on rural credit, 176 

 Tarbell, I. M., Tariff in Our Times, 407 

 Tariff, Gallatin's memorial on, 403 

 labor and capital, 403 

 Le Grand Powers on, 408 

 protective,, and profits, 404 



