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labor, 355; in using man labor, 351; 



measured by accounts, chap, vii; of 



animals, 355, 377, 379J of labor, 351; 



reduced by ill health, 257; result of 



specialization, 328; tests of, 395-96. 

 Eggs, method of handling, 577. 

 Entrepreneurship, 4, 13, 313 ff.; and 



co-operation, 371. 

 Enterprise: choice of, 311, 316, 329, 



332, 398 ff.; organization of, 360-73. 

 Erosion, soil, 174. 

 Exchanges, organized, 490. 

 Exhaustion of soil, 172, 191. 



Family, unit of production, 360, 370. 



Farm: bureau, 262; family organiza- 

 tion of, 360; industrial organization 

 of, 362; layout of, 349; management, 

 chap, vi; size of, 336, 343~49- 



Farmer: a Jack-of-all-trades, 364; edu- 

 cation of, 249; needs experience, 247; 

 needs organization, 261-64, 362-70; 

 negro, 237, 255, 260; socialistic atti- 

 tude of, 5. 



Farming, dry, 146-54. 



Fence- inspection law, 297. 



Feudal agriculture, 35-52. 



Fertility, factors of, 158-72; loss of, see 

 Exhaustion of Soil; Erosion, etc. 



Fertilizer: economy in buying, 359; in- 

 spection law, 296; use of, 338 ff. 



Frontiers of agriculture, 126, 130, 146 ff. 



Frosts, date of, 130, 133-34- 



Future trading, 494, 504; cotton futures 

 act, 506. 



Germany, agricultural policy, 7; rural- 

 credit institutions, 764. 



Grading: farm products, 491, 496; live 

 stock, 519; official cotton standards, 

 512. 



Grazing, 27-30, 66, 177, 202. 



Government activities, 142, 252, 553, 

 558, 759 ff., 772-95, 818. 



Government regulation, 296, 297, 496, 

 506, 512, 603, 679, 709, 849. 



Health, rural, 118, 257. 

 Hedging, 502. 



Housing, rural, 118; of farm help, 842, 

 844. 



Immigrants, in agriculture, 223-37, 626, 

 818, 820, 852, 853, 876. 



Inspection: of grain, 491 (see also Grad- 

 ing); of fence, 297; of fertilizer, 296. 



Insurance: companies and mortgage 

 loans, 731; r61e of, 309. 



Interest, chap, xiii; gross vs. net, 693; 

 legal rate, 709; rates of, 685 ff., 733, 

 743; variation in, 700, 707, 708. 



Irrigation, 138-46. 



Inventory, 380, 381, 392-93. 



Japanese in agriculture: as laborers, 

 234,843; as renters, 626; as proprie- 

 tors, 876. 



Jobbers, 467, 528, 534. 



Labor: as factor in production, 210 ff.; 

 division and specialization, 211; effi- 

 ciency of, 211-12, 246, 247, 257, 260; 

 efficient use of, 351; immigrant, 

 223 ff. (see also Immigrants in Agri- 

 culture); management of, 258, 839- 

 48, 852-54; of women, 242, 854; of 

 children, 856; standards of efficiency, 

 396; supply of, 212, 218, 219, 223, 

 228, 799, 804, 816-22. 



Labor problems, chap, xvi; child labor, 

 856; dangerous work, 849; employ- 

 ment agencies, 851-54; growth of, 

 838; hours of labor, 839-40; intem- 

 perance, 848; treatment of laborers, 

 841-48, 860; strikes, 860; unions, of 

 farm workers, 804, 860; women's 

 labor, 854. 



Land: area of, 129; title, registration 

 of, 698; uses of, 177, 179, 199, 329 ff.; 

 value of, 633 ff . See also Soil. 



policy, and taxation, 679; in Eng- 

 land, 681; in Texas, 681; of United 

 States, its results, 674; same criti- 

 cized, 676. 



Layout of farm, 349. 



Live stock: co-operative selling of, 545; 

 depreciation of, 304; marketing, 519; 

 records, 377, 379, 387-88. 



Location, choice of, for farm enterprise, 

 328 ff. 



Machinery: cost of, 299; depreciation 

 of, 300; related to efficiency, 271; 

 source of farm indebtedness, 718, 721, 

 741; use of, 276, 279; wise selection 

 of, 268; vs. hand methods, 248. 



Margin of cultivation, 126, 130, 134, 

 146; extensive and intensive, 182,336. 



Marginal: climate, 134; laborer, 798, 

 801; land, 618, 620, 623 ff.; saving, 

 692; utility, 422. 



