Agricultural EconomicsJ.B. Lippincott Company, 1921 - 448 pages |
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... operation which must also be taken into consideration . The question is a most serious one , as England and Ireland and other countries have already found out . But the discussion of this prob- lem must be postponed to the chapter ...
... operation which must also be taken into consideration . The question is a most serious one , as England and Ireland and other countries have already found out . But the discussion of this prob- lem must be postponed to the chapter ...
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... operations in modern times , the manufacture of beet sugar - the supply of the European markets with flax and hemp , by the husbandry of small farmers - the abundance of legumes , fruits , poultry , in the usual diet even of the lowest ...
... operations in modern times , the manufacture of beet sugar - the supply of the European markets with flax and hemp , by the husbandry of small farmers - the abundance of legumes , fruits , poultry , in the usual diet even of the lowest ...
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... operations are made clear , and that an idea is obtained of the reasons which make necessary their peculiar methods . " It must be borne in mind from the first that Germany is a country , not of farms , or even small farms , but of ...
... operations are made clear , and that an idea is obtained of the reasons which make necessary their peculiar methods . " It must be borne in mind from the first that Germany is a country , not of farms , or even small farms , but of ...
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... operation is much greater per unit of product than on large farms of similar type . The larger the farm the larger ... operating a comparatively large farm than by putting his money into a small farm which he can buy outright ...
... operation is much greater per unit of product than on large farms of similar type . The larger the farm the larger ... operating a comparatively large farm than by putting his money into a small farm which he can buy outright ...
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... operating farm land . It is able to command labor on its farms at eighty cents per day . And the laborers board themselves ! " 4 The final report of the Commission on Industrial Relations summed up its findings on the Land Question in ...
... operating farm land . It is able to command labor on its farms at eighty cents per day . And the laborers board themselves ! " 4 The final report of the Commission on Industrial Relations summed up its findings on the Land Question in ...
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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...