Agricultural EconomicsJ.B. Lippincott, 1921 - 448 pages |
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... owner , and is therefore getting the benefit of the $ 15,000,000,000 increases in farm land value . And the farmer ... owners " ( Fig . 1 ) . Number of Persons Engaged . There has been a gradual in- crease in the number of persons ...
... owner , and is therefore getting the benefit of the $ 15,000,000,000 increases in farm land value . And the farmer ... owners " ( Fig . 1 ) . Number of Persons Engaged . There has been a gradual in- crease in the number of persons ...
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... owners . This value , by the very nature of standing timber , the holder neither created nor substantially ... owner of both timber and land . " " These three holdings have enough standing timber to build an ordinary five- or ...
... owners . This value , by the very nature of standing timber , the holder neither created nor substantially ... owner of both timber and land . " " These three holdings have enough standing timber to build an ordinary five- or ...
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... owner . The criticism is also heard with increasing frequency that the farmer is one - third farmer and two - thirds speculator . This criti- cism is based on the fact that a part of the farmers aim to make their profits and do make ...
... owner . The criticism is also heard with increasing frequency that the farmer is one - third farmer and two - thirds speculator . This criti- cism is based on the fact that a part of the farmers aim to make their profits and do make ...
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... owners to be worth about $ 20.00 an acre . Allowing the agent the commission of $ 1.50 an acre ( a $ 960 com- mission ) , Mr. Smith should have paid $ 21.50 an acre . Instead of that , he paid $ 31.50 , or $ 10.00 an acre too much , a ...
... owners to be worth about $ 20.00 an acre . Allowing the agent the commission of $ 1.50 an acre ( a $ 960 com- mission ) , Mr. Smith should have paid $ 21.50 an acre . Instead of that , he paid $ 31.50 , or $ 10.00 an acre too much , a ...
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... owner is in debt or wants to sell , he does not strenuously hold up the price . From the best sources of information accessible , the committee are of the opinion that the prices at which farm lands in the older states could have been ...
... owner is in debt or wants to sell , he does not strenuously hold up the price . From the best sources of information accessible , the committee are of the opinion that the prices at which farm lands in the older states could have been ...
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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.