INDEX 



Ability, variations in, 103-113; to 



control men, 1 10 ; to explain, 108 ; 



managerial, 160. 

 Accounting method, 408-421. 

 Accounts, farm crop, 416; live stock, 



418-420. 

 Acquiring land, means of, 215-237. 

 Agricultural depression in England, 



effect on landownership, 312, 313; 



of 1875, 317. 

 Agricultural economics, denned, 5-7. 

 Agricultural holdings act, 340-344. 

 Agricultural imports classified, 72-74. 

 Anderson, James, 310, 326. 



Bakewell, Robert, 308. 



Banks, 178. 



Barclay, Captain, 246. 



Bonuses for hired laborers, 175. 



Branson, E. C, 387. 



Business institutions, 395. 



Business men, grasp of economic forces, 



406. 

 Buying, neighborhood, 393. 



Caird, Sir James, 75, 310. 



Capacity, 79; defined, 116, 117; 

 grades, choice of, 126, 127; illus- 

 trated, 1 1 8-1 23; of cows, 97, 98; 

 of machinery, 95, 96. 



Capital, 93; and crop selection, 52; 

 value, 206. See also Equipment. 



Capitalization of land rentals, 205, 

 206. 



Carver, T. N., viii, 139. 



Cash tenancy, 257 ; reasons for pre- 

 ferring, 301-304; regulation of, 302, 

 303; in England, 323-351- 



Census, U. S., 387, 388. 



Cheese, federation of producers, in 

 Wisconsin, 364. 



Choice of crops, 43-53; as affected by 

 rent, 51 ; under changing conditions, 

 50. 



Choice of live stock, 60. 



Choosing a farm, 127-130. 



Clubs, farmer, 393. 



Colored tenants, 263.'' 



Commercial agriculture, 22, 23 ; advan- 

 tages, 27-29; disadvantages, 26, 27. 



Commission, country life, 381, 384, 

 385 ; milk, 367 ; price, 366, 376, 378, 



379- 



Community, action, 38; business, 392. 



Compensation for unexhausted improve- 

 ments, 335-344- 



Competing crops, 44-47 ; relative terri- 

 tory available for, 48-50. 



Competition between live stock and 

 crops, 58. 



Cooperation, no, 363, 364. 



Cooperative credit, 179. 



Copyhold tenures, 305. 



Com, 44; competition with cotton, 48; 

 competition with sugar beets, 49; 

 markets, 57 ; price, 429. 



Cost, and price, 38-42 ; farm products, 

 366-3^9; of labor and crop selection, 



52- 



Costs, disagreements regarding, 368; 

 joint, 369; specific, 372; specific 

 vs. comparison of profits, 373 ; varia- 

 tion in, 39, 367. 



Cotton, 40, 44 ; belt, tenancy in, 267 ; 

 competition with corn, 48; farms, 

 size of, 155, 156. 



Country life, 242, 380-404; movement, 



384- 



Credit, 226; cooperative, 179; systems, 

 effect of, 183, 184 ; systems in foreign 

 countries, 181-183; sources of, 178- 

 185. 



Crop accounts, 416-418. 



Crop competition, general principles, 

 44-5o. 



Crop selection, and character of fanner, 

 52; and cost of labor, 52; and supplies 

 of capital, 52 ; soil basis, 52. 



Croppers, 298-300. 



Crops, cheaper marketing through live 

 stock, 55 ; choice of, 43-53 ; com- 

 petitive, 44; competition with live 

 stock, 58; feedable, sold, 56; fer- 

 tilizer value of, 54-56; method of 



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