974 



READINGS IN RURAL ECONOMICS 



Public lands (United States), 254; 

 periods in the history of, 258 



Quaintance, H. W., 32 

 Quality of farm products as affected 

 by machinery, 5 1 



Railroads, government ownership of, 



advocated by Populists, 689 

 Railway mileage in United States, 715 

 Reaper, 36 



Roman law of inheritance, 354 

 Rural economy, cultural value of, 2 

 Rural wealth and urban wealth com- 

 pared, 705 



St. Louis convention, 669 



Size of farms", 580 ; as affected by 

 machinery, 63 ; as affected by 

 slavery, 289 



Slave labor, in cotton production, 

 272 ; and soil exhaustion, 285 ; as 

 affecting size of farms, 289 



Slaves, cost of maintenance, 282 



Small-holdings in Denmark, 478 



Soil fertility, maintenance of, in cot- 

 ton production, 276; of Ireland 

 and Flanders compared, 434 



Southern agriculture (United States), 

 267 



Speculation, distinguished from gam- 

 bling, 828; mediaeval, distinguished 

 from modern, 829 



Spillman, W. J., 630 



Squire, the English, 370 



State bounties, 914 

 Syndicates, agricultural, in France, 

 764 



Taussig, F. W., 919 



Taylor, H. C, 204 



Tenancy, in the United States, 487 ; 

 in North Atlantic states, 498 ; in 

 North Central states, 508 ; in 

 Southern States, 523 ; in Western 

 States, 536; in Europe as com- 

 pared with the United States. 491 ; 

 percentage of, 513, 523, 526, 543 



Thompson, C. W., 337, 769, 783 



Thomson, E. H., 636 



Threshing machines, first use of, in 

 America, 37 



Timber-culture act, 260 



Transportation, relation of agriculture 

 to, 714 



Usher, A. P., 827 



Value of farm crops, 1 5 

 Villication, 231 



Wages, effect of machinery on, 73 

 Warren, G. F., loi, 130, 575 

 Wheat growing, movement of, 337 

 Wilson, G. L., 851, 856, 874, 881, 



888, 890 

 Wolff, Henry W., 764 

 Wool growing in medieval England, 



153 



Yeoman farming, 183, 208 



