INDEX 



895 



Market: auction, 514; cornering the, 

 481; for live stock, 519; mechanism 

 of, 485-88; methods and problems, 

 chap, ix; produce, 524 ff.; produce 

 exchanges, 490; reaching, by express, 

 543; reaching, by parcel post, 540. 



Markets: federal office of, 558; national 

 organization of, 561; public, 545; 

 state system of (California), 553. 



Middleman: dissatisfaction with, 534; 

 methods of, 524 ff., 530; need of, 535, 

 537- 



Mortgage: brokers, 723; offerings of, 728. 



Mortgages: crop liens, 746; increase of, 

 713; object of borrowing, 719; report 

 on (1890), 716. 



Negroes in agriculture, 237 ff., 255, 260. 

 Nitrogen: atmospheric, 205; in soil, 

 160; problem, 169, 173. 



Organization: of farm, 310; business 

 forms of, 314, 360 ff.; co-operative, 

 366, 368; ideal, 312. 



Organizer, function of, 313. 



Ownership, a stimulus to efficiency, 260. 



Price: as organizing force, 18; of land, 

 633, 636, 638. 



Population, rural, 218-23; profits, chap, 

 xvii; and progress, 869; connected 

 with risk, 876-79; from different 

 crops, 398 ff.; in Chester County, 

 Pa., 885; in corn belt, 882; large in 

 agriculture, 890; on New York farms, 

 879; related to size of farm, 346; 

 small in agriculture, 887; sources of, 

 4, 867 ff., 870, 873; vs. wages, 867. 



Prices: and market mechanism, 485-86; 

 control of, 474, 479, 481, 503, 608; 

 depressed by oversupply, 437, 450; 

 high, cause of, 440, 469; influenced 

 by storage of goods, 608, 612; in- 

 fluenced by substitution, 470; influ- 

 enced by transportation costs, 567; 

 monopoly, 436; speculative, 504, 608; 

 steadied by exchange dealing, 494, 

 496; theory of, 415, 421, 427. 



Profit sharing, 259; proportion of fac- 

 tors of production, 336, 338. 



Rainfall, 137 (map), 149, 155. 



Refrigeration and transportation, 582. 

 See also Cold Storage. 



Receivers, wholesale, 526. 



Regulation, government. See Govern- 

 ment Regulation. 



Rent, chap, xi; and speculation, 634; 

 as affected by the renter, 622, 626; 

 economic vs. contract, 626; theory of, 

 615 ff- 



Renting contract, 626; in Iowa, 627; 

 in Mississippi, 630; in Texas, 631. 



Retailer, work of, 467, 530. 



Returns, diminishing. See Diminishing 

 Returns. 



Risk: covered by insurance, 309; re- 

 lated to profits, 867, 875, 876, 878. 



Rural credits, chap, xiv; bank credit, 

 264,723,756; cattle bank, 747; com- 

 modity paper, 759 ff.; co-operative, 

 769; drainage bonds, 737; extent in 

 United States, 720; Federal Farm 

 Loan act, 789; government aid, 755, 

 772, 775; historical aspect, 712 ff.; 

 implement dealer, 741; in Germany, 

 764; in Massachusetts, 776; in Mis- 

 souri, 784; in Oklahoma, 780; life 

 insurance company loans, 731; mort- 

 gages, 729; mortgage brokers, 723; 

 rate sheet, 757; store credit, 722, 745. 



Scientific management, 313. 



Self-sufficing agriculture, 49, 56-66. 



Share tenants, 628, 630. 



Size of farm, 336, 343-49; how deter- 

 mined, 337; relation to profits, 346. 



Socialistic attitude of farmers, 5. 



Soil, erosion of, 174; exhaustion of, 172, 

 191; fertility of, 158-72. 



Specialization: advantages of, 328; in 

 marketing, 529. 



Speculation, effect of, on prices, 504, 

 608. 



Standards: of efficiency, 396; of living, 

 81, 88, 122, 124, 800. 



Storage^ 491, 612; effect of, on prices, 

 567; in transit, 595. 



cold: period of, 605; regulation of, 

 603; speculation, 608. 



Store credit, 722, 745. 



Substitution, a factor in price making, 

 470. 



Supply: and transportation rates, 568, 

 574, 576; in relation to value, 417, 

 419-20, 427, 437, 450; market fea- 

 tures of, 447; of capital, 265, 307, 

 684, 691; of labor, 212, 218-42, 799, 

 804, 816-22; of land, chap, iii; per 

 capita (of farm products), 443. 



Tenancy, farm, chap, xii; a menace, 

 671; in Texas, 68 1; no danger from, 



