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INTRODUCTION: The Aim and Scope of Agricultural Economics . . i 



I. THE EMERGENCE OF THE PROBLEM OF AGRICULTURAL 

 ECONOMICS 



INTRODUCTION 17 



A. SAVAGE BEGINNINGS 



1. The Domestication of Animals. Nicholas Joly .... 20 



2. The Beginnings of Plant Cultivation. A. P. de Candolle . 23 



B. THE PASTORAL STAGE 



3. The Flocks and Herds of Palestine. Genesis 27 



4. Early Pastoral Life in Northern Europe. William Cunning- 

 ham 28 



C. AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE ANCIENT NATIONS 



5. Greek Husbandry. Percy Gardner and F. Byron J evens ... 29 



6. Contemporary Accounts of Roman Farming 



a) Marcus Porcius Cato 31 



6) Marcus Terentius Varro 32 



D. THE MIDDLE AGES 



7. Discouragement of Agriculture in Europe after the Fall of 



the Roman Empire. Adam Smith 35 



8. Manorial Husbandry. Rowland E. Prothero ..... 38 



9. Organization of the Manor. W. J. Ashley 44 



10. The Self-sufficing Character of the Manor. W. J. Ashley and 



R. E. Prothero 49 



E. THE AGRARIAN REVOLUTION 



11. The Decline of Feudalism and the Improvement of Agricul- 

 ture. Rowland E. Prothero 52 



12. Enclosure and Better Farming. Arnold Toynbee .... 53 



F. AMERICA RECAPITULATING THE HISTORY OF AGRICULTURE 



13. Colonial Farming. Benjamin Perky Poore 56 



14. The Self-sufficing Agriculture of a Generation Ago. Rodney 

 Welch . . 63 



15. Pastoral Life on the Agricultural Frontier. Ray Stannard 

 Baker 66 



