INDEX 



Abandoned farms, 88 

 Absenteeism, 377 

 Abstinence and capital, 208 

 Agricultural as distinguished from 



a manufacturing and commercial 



policy, 1 19 



Agricultural disorganization, 96 

 Agricultural history, the main periods 



of American, 63 

 Agricultural machinery, 87 

 Agricultural societies, 82 

 Agriculture, why losing ground, 10; 



dependence of, upon land, 122 

 Allodial tenure, 77 

 Apples, price of, 330 

 Ashley, W. J., 43 note 

 Atwater, W. O., 161 



Bacon, home cured, price of, 330 



Bailey, L. H., 63 note, 108 note 



Bakewell, 59 



Beef, price of, 330 



Bogart, E. L., 88 note, 91 note, 94 note 



Bradley, 58 



Brace, Philip A., 65 



Butter, price of, 330 



Capital, meaning of, 204; relation of 

 abstinence to, 208 ; in what sense 

 productive, 209; how increased, 210 



Carlyle, Thomas, 42 



Carnegie Institution, 224 note 



Cattle, 90; English breeds of, 57 



Cattle ranching, 101 



Cattle trail, Texas, 102 



Church, the country, 343 

 Churches, financial support of, 353 

 Civilization, reaction of pastoral life 



upon, 33 



Clover and turnips, 53 

 Coke of Holkham, 56 

 Colling brothers, 60 

 Colonization, relation of, to national 



greatness, 129 

 Commons, 67 

 Communal farming, 36 

 Communities, village, 35 

 Competing and noncompeting crops, 



237 



Congestion of city life, 27 



Consumers' goods, 204 



Cooperation, 274, 278 



Corn, price of, 330 



Corn growing, 100 



Cotton industry, the rise of, 78 ; reor- 

 ganization of, 1 06 



Credit, agricultural, 107, 275 



Curtler, W. H. R., 56 note 



Dairying, 91, 104 



Davenport, Eugene, 183-184, 201 



Degeneracy, 363 



Denmark, example of, 357 



Diffloth, Paul, 58 



Diminishing returns, law of, 118 



Diversification of crops, 236 



Domestic character of agriculture, 18 



Domestication of animals, origin of, 



3i 

 Dry farming, 147 



383 



