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INDEX 



Marketing, 30; direct sale, 352-355; 

 farm products, 353-365; sale to and 

 through middlemen, 355, 356; the 

 farmers' problem, 20-30, 352. 



Markets, primary, 57. 



Marshall, William, 311, 327. 



Method, of study, 405-433 ; accounting, 

 408-421; experimental, 431-433; 

 geographical, 424-426 ; historical, 

 421-424; statistical, 426-431. 



Middleman, fair charges for services of, 

 360; the farmer and, 357-365. 



Mill, J. S., 27. 



Miscellaneous work, 62. 



Money as reason for working, 13. 



Monopoly, 32. 



Moral standards, 130. 



Mortgage, 390. 



Motives, 13-19. 



Movement, tenancy to ownership, 266. 



Municipality, new types of, 403. 



National farm loan associations, 183. 

 Negro, tenants, 257, 260, 263, 266; 



slaves, 262. 

 Neighborhood, 391. 



Neighbors, no, 391; character of, 130. 

 New agriculture, the, in England, 306- 



308; effect of on ownership and 



tenancy, 324, 326. 

 New crops, stimulating introduction of, 



76-78. 

 Noxious weeds, 275. 



Oat markets, 57. 



Organization, theory of, 40; farm, 43- 



167. 

 Ownership of rented land, 267-269. 



Partnership property, 293. 



Patriotism as motive for working, 16. 



People, character of, 87; classes of in 

 agriculture, 102. 



Physical productivity, 84. 



Piece work wages, 176. 



Plan, adherence to, in. 



Planning, rural, 403. 



Plot, experiment, 423. 



Plunkett, Sir Horace, 380. 



Policy, national, 75. 



Pope, Essay on Man, quotation, 14. 



Population, agricultural, 102 ; census of, 

 387; growth of, 91, 92, 96, 113-115; 

 movement to city, effect upon land- 

 ownership, 222, 223. 



Precipitation, 86. 



Preemption system, 217. 



Prices defined, 35 ; fair, 375 ; fixing, 

 366-379; of corn, 429; of hogs, 429. 



Prices, and crop selection, 50 ; causes of 

 change, 51 ; effect on choice by con- 

 sumer, 378; feed, 431; relative, 48. 



Pride as motive for working, 14. 



Primary markets, 57. 



Productivity, 80, 84 ; per man, 99. 



Profit, 46; basis of comparing, 46; per 

 acre, 47, 417; per dollar of expendi- 

 ture, 417; per hour of man labor, 

 46; sharing, 175; Walker's theory 

 of, 193; comparing by farmers, 378; 

 forces determining, 193-203; rela- 

 tive, 417 ; total farm, as basis of price 

 fixing, 371. 



Progress, effect of on distribution of 

 wealth, 201, 202. 



Property, 94. 



Proportions of factors of production, 

 132-151- 



Quality of new land, 91. 



Rainfall, 86. 



Receipts, 414. 



Religion, 17. 



Rent, amount to be paid, 279; and 



profits, 190-203 ; conclusions drawn 



from theory of, 198, 199 ; fluctuations 



of, 51 ; time of paying, 282 ; and land 



values, 204-208. 

 Research, cooperative, 387 ; methods of, 



405-433- 

 Ricardo, David, 116, 190; theory of 



rent, 192. 

 Risk, 43, 1 88. 

 Roads, country, 385. 

 Rogers, J. E. T., 103. 

 Roosevelt, President, 381-383. 

 Rural, investigations, 384; hope, 381; 



routes, 402. 



Sanitary conditions, 129. 



Savings, 225. 



Scarcity, 31, 32. 



School problems, 394, 395. 



Scully estate, 268. 



Self-control, 108, 109. 



Self-sufficing, agriculture, 20-23 ; nation, 



76. 

 Selling, neighborhood, 393. 



