Yearbook of AgricultureU.S. Government Printing Office, 1940 - Agriculture |
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acreage acres Administration agencies Agricultural Adjustment Agricultural Adjustment Act Agricultural Adjustment Administration agricultural products American areas associations average basis changes Colonies commercial commodities consumers consumption cooperative corn Corn Belt costs cotton crop insurance dairy decline demand dollars domestic economic effect expanded expenditures exports Farm Credit Administration farm families farm income farm population farm products Farm Security Administration farmers Federal Federal Farm Board foreign Government grades grain grazing illus important improved increased industrial interest labor less livestock living loans ment methods million acres nonfarm operations organizations ownership payments percent period plants practices problem public ownership purchasing power railroads range range lands rates region regulation result rural sharecroppers social soil conservation South standards supplies surplus tariff tenants timber tion tobacco trade United urban wheat
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Page 168 - American development has exhibited not merely advance along a single line, but a return to primitive conditions on a continually advancing frontier line, and a new development for that area. American social development has been continually beginning over again on the frontier.
Page 260 - You come to us and tell us that the great cities are in favor of the gold standard ; we reply 20 that the great cities rest upon our broad and fertile prairies. Burn down your cities and leave our farms and your cities will spring up again as if by magic; but destroy our farms and the grass will grow in the streets of every city in the country.
Page 243 - Agriculture to acquire and preserve in his Department all information concerning agriculture which he can obtain by means of books and correspondence, and by practical and scientific experiments, (accurate records of which experiments shall be kept in his office,) by the collection of statistics, and by any other appropriate means within his power...
Page 113 - ... the proportion which the aggregate of the other classes of citizens bears in any state to that of its husbandmen, is the proportion of its unsound to its healthy parts, and is a good-enough barometer whereby to measure its degree of corruption.
Page 205 - I shall be happily mistaken if they are not found to be a very troublesome species of property ere many years have passed over our heads...
Page 120 - It can hardly be believed how many facts naturally flow from the philosophical theory of the indefinite perfectibility of man, or how strong an influence it exercises even on men who, living entirely for the purposes of action and not of thought, seem to conform their actions to it, without knowing anything about it.
Page 549 - ... programs; (2) the value at parity prices of the production from the allotted acreages of the various commodities for the year with respect to which the payment is made; (3) the average acreage planted to the various commodities during the...
Page 126 - The new town then assumes the name of its founder : a storekeeper builds a little framed store, and sends for a few cases of goods ; and then a tavern .starts up, which becomes the residence of a doctor and a lawyer, and the boarding-house of the storekeeper, as well as the resort of the weary traveler: soon follow a blacksmith and other handicraftsmen in useful succession : a schoolmaster, who is also the minister of religion, becomes an important accession to this rising community.
Page 126 - The new town then assumes the name of its founder: — a store-keeper builds a little framed store, and sends for a few cases of goods; and then a tavern starts up; which becomes the residence of a doctor and a lawyer, and the boarding-house of the store-keeper, as well as the resort of the weary traveller: soon follow a blacksmith and other handicraftsmen in useful succession...
Page 121 - I accost an American sailor, and inquire why the ships of his country are built so as to last but for a short time ; he answers without hesitation, that the art of navigation is every day making such rapid progress, that the finest vessel would become almost useless if it lasted beyond a few years.