PREFACE 



This little book appears in fulfilment of the promise made a year 

 ago that there would be a class-book to accompany Agricultural 

 Economics. In fact, these questions and exercises should be regarded 

 as an integral part of the earlier volume for all purposes of teaching 

 and study. They should be bound together except for the undue 

 size which would result and the possibility that some instructors 

 might desire to use this class-book in connection with other materials. 

 For this latter reason the writer has aimed to make the questions 

 sufficiently general in character to be of value to classes using other 

 textbooks than his own and especially to instructors or classes in 

 marketing, rural credits, and similar special topics. While the ques- 

 tions bear in the main upon the particular matter presented in the 

 companion volume, specific references have been avoided in nearly 

 all cases. 



The writer disclaims any pretense of offering a bibliography of 

 agricultural economics. The lists of "additional references" appended 

 to the various chapters are merely what their name implies references 

 added to those already suggested in the footnotes of the various 

 selections. Some of these represent valuable material which has 

 appeared since the publication of the earlier volume; others are works 

 which for one reason or another were not used in the compilation of 

 the source book, but which seem to the writer to be of value for further 

 reading on special topics or in the preparation of term papers. 



Likewise, the lists of special topics do not aim at completeness, 

 but are intended, by a few concrete suggestions, to stimulate the 

 student to discover suitable subjects of his own. 



Besides the use which the writer has already made of this material, 

 a part of the questions have been used at the University of Illinois by 

 Dr. Charles L. Stewart, from whom numerous helpful suggestions have 

 been received. Criticisms and suggestions from all who may use the 

 book are cordially invited, in order that the book may be revised, at 

 no distant date, in the light of a broader classroom experience. 



E. G. N. 



Fayetteville, Arkansas 

 July 2, 1917 



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