Elements of Rural EconomicsGinn, 1924 - 266 sider |
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advantage agricultural amount animals bargain become better borrow bushels buyers buying and selling called cash cattle cent colonial competition consumers coöperative society corn corporation cost cotton crop cultivation diminishing returns dollar economic England equipment expensive fact factor of production factors Farm Land Bank farmer Federal Farm Land forty acres give Grade growing hired important improvement income increase indentured servants individual industry interest joint-stock kind labor power large numbers lenders live stock mainly manorial system marketing ment methods mortgages nation neighborhood organization owner period piece of land plow possible PROBLEM FOR DISCUSSION profits prosperity purchase reason rent rural share social soil sold standardized sumers supply tenant things three-field system tillage tion tivated twine binder units of labor units of product violence wages waste wheat yield
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Side 95 - Two men I honour, and no third. First, the toil-worn Craftsman that with earth-made Implement laboriously conquers the Earth, and makes her man's. Venerable to me is the hard Hand; crooked, coarse; wherein notwithstanding lies a cunning virtue, indefeasibly royal, as of the Sceptre of this Planet. Venerable too is the rugged face, all weather-tanned, besoiled, with its rude intelligence; for it is the face of a Man living manlike.
Side 95 - A second man I honour, and still more highly: Him who is seen toiling for the spiritually indispensable; not daily bread, but the bread of Life.
Side 89 - Iron sharpeneth iron ; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend.
Side 99 - Man, this is one of the most extraordinary, that he shall go on from day to day, from week to week, from month to month.
Side 141 - Bank, with its indorsement, any note, draft, bill of exchange, debenture, or other such obligation the proceeds of which have been advanced "or used in the first instance for any agricultural purpose...
Side 95 - If the poor and humble toil that we have Food, must not the high and glorious toil for him in return, that he have Light, have Guidance, Freedom, Immortality? — These two, in all their degrees, I honor: all else is chaff and dust, which let the wind blow whither it listeth.
Side 95 - Brother! For us was thy back so bent, for us were thy straight limbs and fingers so deformed; thou wert our Conscript, on whom the lot fell, and fighting our battles wert so marred.
Side 141 - To make loans or advances direct to any cooperative association organized under the laws of any State and composed of persons engaged in producing, or producing and marketing, staple agricultural products, or livestock, if the notes or other such obligations representing such loans are secured by warehouse receipts, and/or shipping documents covering such products, and/or mortgages on livestock...
Side 221 - If I may use a homely illustration, I will take the common house cat, whose diminutive size makes her a safe inmate of our household in spite of her playful disposition and her liking for animal food. If, without the slightest change of character or disposition, she were suddenly enlarged to the dimensions of a tiger, we should at least want her to be muzzled and to have her claws trimmed, whereas if she were to assume the dimensions of a mastodon, I doubt if any of us would want to live in the same...
Side 67 - Babylonia. Hay was mown with a scythe and raked and pitched by hand. Corn was planted and covered by hand and cultivated with a hoe. By 1866 every one of these operations was done by machinery driven by horse power, except in the more backward sections of the country.