Farm Construction as a Use of Farm Labor in the United States, 1850–1910

Martin L. Primack

The Journal of Economic History, 1965, vol. 25, issue 1, 114-125

Abstract: The construction and improvement of farm buildings in the United States during the latter half of the nineteenth century was a task of farmcapital formation exceeded only by the effort to clear the land itself. As uses of the farmer's time and capital, the erection of the first crude shelters and the steady additions to the dwelling and to other farm buildings are of major interest and importance in the analysis of American agricultural development. The statistics available to measure this work are adequate to command attention; like all statistics of this period, they must, of course, be employed with caution.

Date: 1965
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