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<title> Principles Of Rural Economics
<author> Thomas Nixon Carver
<publisher> Ginn and company, 1911
<subjects> Agriture
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Présentation de l'éditeur
Clover and turnips, 53; Great rural enterprises, 53; Parallel development in other industries, 54; Agricultural improvement; Jethro Tull, 55; Turnip Townshend, 55; Coke of Holkham, 56; Gentlemen farmers, 56; Arthur Young, 57 ;T he breeding of live stock; English breeds of cattle, 57 ;B akewell and theL onghorns, 59; The Colling brothers andS horthorn cattle, 60; Benjamin Tompkins and the Herefords, 61; The Thoroughbred, 61 ;D raft horses, 62. III. BEGINNINGS OF AMERICAN AGRICULTURE. The main periods, 63; What we owe to the I ndians, 64; How the colonists got land, 64; The land system of Virginia, 64; How the land was surveyed, 65; Land speculation, 66; The land system of New England, 66; Commons, 67 ;L and system of the middle colonies, 67 ;T he labor supply, 68 ;I ndentured servants, 69 ;N egro slaves, 69 ;E arly experiments, 70; Live stock, 71 ;R ural life during the colonial era, 72. IV. THE ERA OF NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT, i. From 7776 to 1833. The Conquest of the Great Forest. The shifting of the frontier, 74 ;T he publicland policy, 74; Transition from a financial to a social policy, 74; The rectangular system of surveying, 75; Allodial tenure, 77; The rise of the cotton industry, 78; Effect on slavery, 79; The mule, 81; Westward migration, 81; Farm implements, 82 ;A gricultural societies, 82 ;I mprovements in live stock; the horse, 82; Sheep, 83; Hogs and the pork-packing industry, 83. 2. The Period ofT ransformation. Magnitude of the change, 84; Causes of the transformation, 86; The prairies, 86; Agricultural machinery, 87 ;L ive stock, horses, 88; Hogs, 88; Abandoned farms, 88; Sheep and cattle, 90; Dairying, 91. 3. The Period of Westward Expansion. Progress in theN orth unchecked by the Civil War, 93 ;E xpansion of farm area, 94 ;A gricultural disorganization, 96; Agricultural discontent, 97 ;R ailroads, 98; Machinery, 99; The roller process, 99; Corn
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