PRINCIPLES OF RURAL ECONOMICS 



Economic goods, meaning of, 202 

 Economic methods of getting a liv- 

 ing, 3 ; classification of, 4 

 Economics, subject matter of, I 

 Economizing land, importance of, 



130 



Economy of labor or of land, 188 

 Eggs, price of, 330 

 Environment, changing man's, 6 

 Exchange, organization of, 213 

 Expansion, period of westward, 92 

 Expansion of farm area, 94 

 Extractive industries, 9 



Family building, 337 

 Farm buildings, 269 

 Farm implements, 82 

 Farms, abandoned, 88 



Gentlemen farmers, 56 

 Getting a living, ways of, xxiv 

 Getting a living from other men, 1 1 

 Government, purpose of, 3 

 Grange, the, 369 

 Guizot, 373 



Haarlem Lake, drainage of, 141 

 Hammond, M. B., 86 note, 108 note 

 Hart, A. B., 74 note 

 Hawley, F. B., 321 note 

 Hay, price of, 330 

 Hereford cattle, 61 

 Hilgard, E. W., 151 

 Hunting and fishing stage, 9 

 Hunting stage not universal, 29 



Immorality as dissipated energy, 187 



Inclosures in England, 46 



Income, agricultural, 289 ; adequate, 



of farming class, 339 

 Independence of farmer, 14 

 Indians, our debt to the, 64 

 Industries, fundamental, 5 



Intensive cultivation, 167 ; why it is 

 not always economical of labor, 176 



Intensive farming, transition from ex- 

 tensive to, no 



Interest, law of, 305 



Interests, unification of rural, 362 



Irrigation, 142 



Isolation of farm life, 27 



Kemmerer, E. W., 280 note 



Labor supply, 68 



Land, how obtained by colonists, 64 ; 



how surveyed, 65 

 Land speculation, 66 

 Land system, of Virginia, 64 ; of New 



England, 66; of middle colonies, 



67 



Landlord as leader, 378 

 Large-scale farming, 239, 242 

 Law, economic purpose of, 3 

 Lawes, Sir John, 182 

 Levasseur, E., 92 note 

 Life, reaction of business upon, 20 

 Live stock, in colonies, 71, 88; im- 

 provements in, 82, 83 ; reaction 

 upon farmer, 266 

 Longhorn cattle, 59 



Machinery, agricultural, 87, 99 

 Maine, Sir Henry Sumner, 37 note 

 Manager as economizer, 224 

 Manor, description of a, 41 ; origin 



of, 44 ; decay of, 45 

 Manorial system, 41; inflexibility of, 



45 



Man's dominion over nature, 7 

 Markets, dependence of manufac- 

 turers upon, 1 20 

 Markets and fairs, 287 

 Marshall, Alfred, 242 

 Mead, Elwood, 144 note, 145 

 Medium-scale farming, 241 



