INDEX. 



655 



DAIRY SCHOOLS ; compensation of gradu- 

 ates, 53. 



— Course of study in, 53, 546. 



— Methods of, 52, 546. 



Death; what evolutionists mean by it, 23. 

 Debt; the cause of most deviations from 

 honesty, 247. .. , , 



— Unless to run a long time not relieved by 



free coinage, 375. 

 Debtors; formerly sold as slaves, no. 



— Must frankly look their condition in the 



face, 109. 

 Deferred payments ; standard of, 367. 

 Demonetization, of silver, 622. 

 Department of Agriculture; Bulletins, and 



how to get them, 50, 561-566. 

 Depreciation of silver, 360. 

 Diagrams, statistical, caution in regard to 



use of, 612. 614, 615. 

 Direct Legislation ; arguments for, 413. 



— Common in U. S. in local affairs, 413. 

 — Educational value of, 419. 



— If wise would require all the time of- the 



people, 417. 



— Initiative and referendum, 415. 

 ^ In Switzerland, 420. 



— In municipal aflfairs, 416, 420. 



— Likely to be conservative, 420. 



— Necessary limitations of, 418, 419. 



— Not desirable that it advance too rapidly, 



415- 



— Not yet a real question of the day, 418. 



— Obstacles to its progress, 414. 



— Rapidly gaining support, 415. 



— Some proper subjects of, 418. 



— Very expensive, 418. 



Discontent ; causes of, do not operate uni- 

 formly, 122. 



— Of the weaker and indebted, 121. 



— Part of man's nature, 124. 

 Discontent of the Farmer, 120. 



— Causes of, 121, 122. 



— remedies for, 126. 



— Result of proposed remedies, 128. 

 Discriminations; railroad, 167. 



Distress ; result of changes occurring more 



rapidly than man can adjust himself to 



them, 19. 

 Documents; state and national agricultural; 



how to obtain them, 72, 561-566. 

 Drainage; importance of, !>;. 

 Dried Fruits; early methods of handling and 



marketing in California, 471. 



ECONOMIC ANTAGONISM should not 



produce enmity, 384. 

 Economics, problems of; rest upon ethical 



problems, 124. 

 Economic Science; assumes competition, 



100. 



— Does not deal with altruism, loi. 

 Economics; some knowledge of is essen- 

 tial to successful farming, 38. 



— What it is, 37. 

 Econemist, index tables of, 639. 

 Economists; high character of, 303. 



— Modern, mostly free traders, 303. 



— Reasoning of in regard to tariff, 303. 

 Education, Agricultural ; commercial view 



of it, 44. 



— The broader view of it, 44. 

 Education of the farmers' children, 93. 

 Education, the farmers; what is and what 



is not meant by it, 32. 



— The higher agricultural ; demands the full 



strength of the student, 46. 

 Elections ; use of money in, 117. 



Elections, who supply money for, n8. 

 Employees, the Farmers', 94. 



— socially the farmers' equals, 95. 

 Environment, influence of, 18. 

 Exchanges, modern ; inextricably inter- 

 woven, lOI. 



— Speculative ; how conducted, 178. 



— What they actually are, 102. 



— What they would be with an ideal race, 



102. 

 Existence, struggle for, loi. 



— How modified, loi. 

 Expenditures, Public; in U. S., 298. 



— Possible economies in, 189. 

 Experimental farms can never yield a net in- 

 come, 47- 



Experimenting an art, 48. 

 Experiment Stations, Agricultural; Hatch 

 Act for establishment of, 543. 



— Extremely valuable work of, 48, 49. 



— Means limited, 49. 



— National appropriation for. 48. 



— Necessity arose from impossibility of good 



farming by students, 47. 



— The, 46. 



— Value not fully recognized, 48. 



— Work seldom appreciated by neighboring 



farmers, 47. 

 Experiments in digestion ; value of, 48. 

 Export Bounty, as a question of the day, 313. 



— Certain results of, 317. 



— Cost of to U. S. if given as proposed, 318. 



— Definition of, 313. 



— European experience in, 315, 316, 319, 320. 



— Justice of, as claimed by its advocates, 313. 



— No part of policy of protection, 315. 



— Not endorsed by any economist, 315. 



— Not endorsed by any national organiza- 



tion, 313. 



— Relation of, to question of protection and 



free trade, 314. 



— Results of, as claimed by its advocates, 



314- 



— Sufficient objection to, 316. 

 Evolutionists; not understood by farmers, 



20. 

 Evolution, of the farmer, 18. 



— Of species, 18, 567- 



— Possible result of, 127. 



— What it means, 127. 



FAMILIES, Shiftless; in process of ex- 

 tinction, 32. 

 Farm, adaptability for home, 82. 



— As a source of income, 84. 



— Considerations determining value of, 82. 



— Fertile; means one which will produce 



crops at profit, 84. 



— Is a factory, 87. 



Farm Life; lacks social intercourse, 96, 

 Farm, most common abuses of, 84. 



— Practice, local; usually well understood by 



farmers, 32. 



— Practice; to be learned only on the farm, 



32- 



— Products, danger of accepting large ad- 



vances on, 231. 



— The products of; largely determined by 



location with reference to markets, 88. 



— Products, profits of; most profit in Hie 



crops requiring most brain work, 88. 



— Products, value of as security, 230, 231. 



— Robbing the soil of, 85. 



— Sources of fertility abundant, 85. 



— The storehouse of vigor, 25. 



— Value affected bv character of communitv, 



83. 



