Agricultural EconomicsJ.B. Lippincott Company, 1921 - 448 pages |
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... show total farm property , for instance , of forty billion dollars . But of this forty , twenty - eight is land ... shows that America , like some European countries , is now primarily a manufacturing country . Value of Exports ...
... show total farm property , for instance , of forty billion dollars . But of this forty , twenty - eight is land ... shows that America , like some European countries , is now primarily a manufacturing country . Value of Exports ...
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... agricultural exports remain about the same from year to year , or increase very slightly , the imports of agri- ܣ܂ 6 Farm Value in Hundred Millions of Dollars . cultural products show a steady and rapid growth . Considering.
... agricultural exports remain about the same from year to year , or increase very slightly , the imports of agri- ܣ܂ 6 Farm Value in Hundred Millions of Dollars . cultural products show a steady and rapid growth . Considering.
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James Ernest Boyle. cultural products show a steady and rapid growth . Considering both our imports and exports of agricultural products we find that our net exports are only about $ 300,000,000 a year . The big agricultural exports are ...
James Ernest Boyle. cultural products show a steady and rapid growth . Considering both our imports and exports of agricultural products we find that our net exports are only about $ 300,000,000 a year . The big agricultural exports are ...
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... to the number of persons engaged in each . 5. Compare the great industries as to the amount of capital invested . The same for the value of the product . 2 June 25 1913 . 6. Show the past and present rank of agricultural exports.
... to the number of persons engaged in each . 5. Compare the great industries as to the amount of capital invested . The same for the value of the product . 2 June 25 1913 . 6. Show the past and present rank of agricultural exports.
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... Show significance of these figures ( Fig . 5 ) . 9. Show at what periods of our history we have followed the doctrines of " exploitation " and " conservation " respectively . Explain these terms . 10. According to Sir Horace Plunkett ...
... Show significance of these figures ( Fig . 5 ) . 9. Show at what periods of our history we have followed the doctrines of " exploitation " and " conservation " respectively . Explain these terms . 10. According to Sir Horace Plunkett ...
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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 316 - Agriculture, the general design and duties of which shall be to acquire and to diffuse among the people of the United States useful information on subjects connected with agriculture, in the most general and comprehensive sense of that word and to procure, propagate, and distribute among the people new and valuable seeds and plants.
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 325 - That in order to secure the benefits of the appropriation for any purpose specified in this Act the State board shall prepare plans showing the kinds of vocational education for which it is proposed that the appropriation shall be used ; the kinds of schools and equipment ; courses of study ; methods of instruction; qualifications of teachers; and, in the case of agricultural subjects the qualifications of supervisors or directors; plans for the training of teachers; and, in the case of agricultural...
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 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...