Agricultural EconomicsJ.B. Lippincott, 1921 - 448 pages |
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... food supply is primarily a question of agriculture . In brief , agriculture is an industry which is fundamental in the political economy of our Republic . It is vital , therefore , that the problems in this field vii.
... food supply is primarily a question of agriculture . In brief , agriculture is an industry which is fundamental in the political economy of our Republic . It is vital , therefore , that the problems in this field vii.
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... INDUSTRY 365 XXIV . TAXATION PROBLEMS ; SINGLE TAX ; PROTECTIVE TARIFF . 393 XXV . FOREIGN COMPETITION 409 XXVI . FOOD SUPPLY PROBLEM . 425 INDEX .. 437 AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS CHAPTER I AGRICULTURE , MANUFACTURING , COMMERCE The ix.
... INDUSTRY 365 XXIV . TAXATION PROBLEMS ; SINGLE TAX ; PROTECTIVE TARIFF . 393 XXV . FOREIGN COMPETITION 409 XXVI . FOOD SUPPLY PROBLEM . 425 INDEX .. 437 AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS CHAPTER I AGRICULTURE , MANUFACTURING , COMMERCE The ix.
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... Industries . For many years of our history agriculture was the leading industry . Agri- culture came first as to the amount of capital invested , first as to the value of the output , and first as to the number of persons employed ...
... Industries . For many years of our history agriculture was the leading industry . Agri- culture came first as to the amount of capital invested , first as to the value of the output , and first as to the number of persons employed ...
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... ITHACA , N. T. III Value of Product Manufacturing Agriculture 1850 1860 1870 1880 1890 1900 1910 FIG . 1. Agriculture - rank as an industry . NUMBER OF PERSONS ENGAGED 3 states the Census Report ,. 2 AGRICULTURE , " MANUFACTURING , ...
... ITHACA , N. T. III Value of Product Manufacturing Agriculture 1850 1860 1870 1880 1890 1900 1910 FIG . 1. Agriculture - rank as an industry . NUMBER OF PERSONS ENGAGED 3 states the Census Report ,. 2 AGRICULTURE , " MANUFACTURING , ...
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... industry , so far as can be measured by statistics as to the number of farms , farm land , and improved land , more than kept pace with the population . " But it has failed to do so since . " The population increased 116.3 per cent ...
... industry , so far as can be measured by statistics as to the number of farms , farm land , and improved land , more than kept pace with the population . " But it has failed to do so since . " The population increased 116.3 per cent ...
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Page 379 - Section 1 provides that every contract combination in the form of a trust or otherwise, or conspiracy, in restraint of trade or commerce among the several States, or with foreign nations, is hereby declared to be illegal.
Page 33 - Give a man the secure possession of a bleak rock, and he will turn it into a garden ; give him * Arthur Young's Trtnelt m francl, ml. ip 88. « Ibid. p. 61. a nine years lease of a garden, and he will convert it into a desert.
Page 31 - The mobs of great cities add just so much to the support of pure government as sores do to the strength of the human body.
Page 399 - To all the arguments which are brought to evince the impracticability of success in manufacturing establishments in the United States, it might have been a sufficient answer to have referred to the experience of what has been already done. It is certain that several important branches have grown up and flourished with a rapidity which surprises, affording an encouraging assurance of success in future attempts: of these, it may not be improper to enumerate the most considerable.
Page 117 - Thus my father had among his slaves, carpenters, coopers, sawyers, blacksmiths, tanners, curriers, shoemakers, spinners, weavers and knitters, and even a distiller. His woods furnished timber and plank for the carpenters and coopers, and charcoal for the blacksmith ; his cattle, killed for his own consumption and for sale, supplied skins for the tanners, curriers and shoemakers, and his sheep gave wool and his fields produced cotton and flax for the weavers and spinners, and his orchards fruit for...
Page 404 - ... and in some countries, unfortunately, by violence and bloodshed. But the government, by protective duties, arrays itself on the side of the manufacturing system, and, by thus augmenting its wealth and power, soon terminates in its favor the struggle between man and money — between capital and labor.
Page 33 - An activity has been here, that has swept away all difficulties before it, and has clothed the very rocks with verdure. It would be a disgrace to common sense to ask the cause; the enjoyment of property must have done it. Give a man the secure possession of a bleak rock, and he will turn it into a garden ; give him a nine years...
Page 405 - ... to enable their own workmen to undersell and supplant all competitors in the countries to which these commodities are sent. Hence the undertakers of a new manufacture have to contend not only with the natural disadvantages of a new undertaking, but with the gratuities and remunerations which other governments bestow. To be enabled to contend...
Page 404 - No prejudice is felt by the Secretary of the Treasury against manufacturers. His opposition is to the protective system, and not to classes or individuals. He doubts not that the manufacturers are sincerely persuaded that the system which is a source of so much profit to them is beneficial also to the country. He entertains a contrary opinion, and claims for the opponents of the system a settled conviction of its injurious effects.
Page 405 - But the greatest obstacle of all to the successful prosecution of a new branch of industry in a country in which it was before unknown consists, as far as the instances apply, in the bounties, premiums, and other aids which are granted in a variety of cases by the nations in which the establishments to be imitated are previously introduced.