INDEX 



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, 51 



Land grants, to states, 261 ; to rail- 

 roads, 262 



Land reform in England, proposals 

 for, 400 



Land tenure, 352 ; in France, 410 ; in 

 Belgium 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 



McVey, 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 

 Qiarente, 85 1 ; of butter in Allier, 

 856; of butter in Normandy, 858 ; 

 of Danish butter in England, 865 ; 

 of peaches in Lyons, 874; of gages 

 from Agen, 881 ; of vegetables in 

 London, 883 ; of onions and fruit 

 in London, 887 ; of onions in Man- 

 chester, 888; of potatoes in Man- 

 chester, 890 

 Markets, mediaeval produce, 827 

 Middle Ages, agriculture in, 151 

 Minnesota, wheat production in, 

 338 



Mortgage indebtedness in the United 

 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 views 

 of, 634 



Phosphate rock, exportation of, 127 



Pierson, Charles W., 645 



Plow, early use of, in America, 34; 

 Daniel Webster's, 3^ 



Plowing in medieval agriculture, 1 58 



Policy, national, with respect to agri- 

 culture, 898 



Pope, J. E., 936 



Population, shifting of, 60; increase of 

 agricultural, during Civil War, 3 1 2 



Populist movement, the, 666 



" Potter Bill," 655 



Pre-emption acts, 258 



Prices, crop yields, 101 ; in England 

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

 eval times, 1 62 ; of farm products 

 in United States from 1 885 to 1 895. 

 719; cold storage of eggs, numbers 

 taken in and out, 802 



Primogeniture, 352 ; arguments in 

 favor of, 382 ; domestic aspects 



of, 393 

 Profits of farming, 1 30, 636 ; on very 

 large farms, 596; relation of crop 

 yields to, 600 ; on diversified farms, 

 6f6; of tenant farmers, 640; of 

 landlords, 643 



