The Farmer's Last Frontier: Agriculture, 1860-1897M.E. Sharpe, 1977 - 434 pages Part of a series of detailed reference manuals on American economic history, this volume traces the development and expansion of agriculture across the USA during the last half of the 19th century. |
Contents
NATURE AND THE FARMER | 1 |
Distribution of the Important Zonal Groups of Soils in the U S | 12 |
AGRICULTURAL SETTLEMENT IN NEW AREAS | 26 |
DISPOSING OF THE PUBLIC DOMAIN | 51 |
Railroad Land Grants | 64 |
Greater and Lesser Land Monopolists | 71 |
51 | 98 |
SOUTHERN CROPS AND SPECIAL PROBLEMS | 101 |
Wheat Data 18661898 | 192 |
THE LIVESTOCK FRONTIER AND THE GREATPLAINS FARMER | 197 |
FINANCE AND MARKETING PROBLEMS OF THE RANGE | 221 |
The Transportation Problem | 227 |
Cattle Rates from the Northern Plains to Chicago in 1884 | 228 |
Fences | 238 |
SPECIALIZED AGRICULTURE AND EASTERN ADJUSTMENTS | 245 |
Value of Truck and Small Fruits Sold in East 1879 1889 1899 | 260 |
58 | 110 |
Cotton Data 18661898 | 113 |
67 | 118 |
THE PROGRESS OF FARM MECHANIZATION | 125 |
Prices of Typical Machines 18601900 | 140 |
BETWEEN PAGES 146147 | 146 |
A NineteenthCentury Silo | 146 |
THE EXPANSION OF PRAIRIE AGRICULTURE | 148 |
76 | 158 |
The Six Leading Wheat States and Percentages by Decades | 163 |
SPECIAL PROBLEMS OF PRAIRIE FARMERS | 173 |
BETWEEN PAGES 178179 | 178 |
A Massachusetts Road of the 1890s before Improvement | 178 |
GOVERNMENTAL ACTIVITY IN AGRICULTURE | 268 |
THE AGRARIAN UPRISING | 291 |
Purchasing Power of Four Different Crops at December 1 Prices | 293 |
Rail and Water Rates on Wheat Chicago to New York 18681900 | 299 |
FARMERS COOPERATIVE MOVEMENTS | 329 |
Farmers Stores | 337 |
Miscellaneous Enterprises | 344 |
Relative Proportion of the Population Engaged in Agriculture | 351 |
Persons Gainfully Employed in the West 1870 1890 1900 | 358 |
Average Wage Rates of Outdoor Labor of Men on Farms | 364 |
THE LITERATURE OF THE SUBJECT | 379 |
APPENDIX | 415 |
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