American Journal of Agricultural Economics

1919 - 2019

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Volume 21, issue 4, 1939

A Century of Agricultural Statistics pp. 697-706

Henry C. Taylor

A Close-up View of the Development of Agricultural Statistics from 1900 to 1920 pp. 707-717

Nat C. Murray

Why the Government Entered the Field of Crop Reporting and Forecasting pp. 718-734

Walter H. Ebling

Development of Agricultural Statistics in the Bureau of the Census pp. 735-760

Murray R. Benedict

Progress of Agricultural Statistics in the World pp. 761-787

E. S. and W. S. Woytinsky

Agricultural Price Statistics in the United States and Abroad pp. 788-798

F. A. Pearson and G. E. Brandow

Developments in Crop and Livestock Reporting since 1920 pp. 799-827

Joseph A. Becker and C. L. Harlan

Estimating Local Market Prices and Farm Labor since 1920 pp. 828-837

Roger F. Hale

Future Improvement in Agricultural Statistics pp. 838-845

Charles F. Sarle

Design of Sampling Experiments in the Social Sciences pp. 846-855

George W. Snedecor

An Experiment in the Design of Agricultural Surveys pp. 856-863

Raymond J. Jessen

Measures Needed to Achieve Conservation and Efficient Production pp. 864-870

Walter W. Wilcox

Permanent Aspects of Supply and Price Adjustment in Agriculture pp. 871-880

J. K. Galbraith

Suggestions for a National Program of Rural Rehabilitation and Relief pp. 881-896

James G. Maddox

These Are Our Lives, Federal Writers' Project. Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press. 1939. Pp. xx, 421. $2.00 pp. 898

C. Arnold Anderson

Rural Families on Relief, Carle C. Zimmerman & Nathan L. Whetten. Washington, D. C. 1938. WPA, Division of Social Research Monograph XVII. Pp. xxiv+161 pp. 898-900

C. Arnold Anderson

Montana Farm Foreclosures, R. R. Renne, Montana Agricultural Experiment Station Bulletin 368, 1939, 58 pp pp. 900-901

L. A. Moorhouse

Composition and Characteristics of the Agricultural Population in California, George M. Peterson, California Agri. Exp. Station, Bulletin 630, 1939, 48 pp pp. 902-903

Conrad Taeuber

Hunger and History, E. Parmalee Prentice. New York, Harper and Brothers, 269 pp. $3.00 pp. 903-905

O. E. Baker

The Wholesale Marketing of Fresh Fruits and Vegetables in Baltimore, Robert G. Deupree, Baltimore, The Johns-Hopkins Press, 1939, pp. 125, $1.25 pp. 905-906

Frank Robotka

Financing Government, Harold M. Groves. New York, Henry Holt and Company, 1939, 777 pp., $3.75 pp. 907-908

M. P. Catherwood

Volume 21, issue 3_Part_I, 1939

Demand Schedules—"Normal" and "Instantaneous" pp. 555-569

R. L. Mighell and R. H. Allen

Theory of the Firm and Farm Management Research pp. 570-586

Theodore Schultz

Differentiation in Marketing Farm Products pp. 587-594

L. J. Norton

Wholesale Butter Prices and Premiums pp. 595-605

Paul E. Quintus

The Theory and Measurement of Demand pp. 606-613

Gerhard Tintner

Japan's Agricultural Crisis pp. 614-631

W. Ladejinsky

The Equilibrium Method of Tariff Analysis Applied to Egyptian Uppers Cotton pp. 632-650

C. F. Wells

Comparison of Small and Large Farmers under Proration Schemes pp. 651-655

H. E. Erdman

Investment Policy for Farm Purchasers pp. 655-661

Conrad H. Hammar

Economic Aspects of Hybrid Corn—Further Considered pp. 661-665

R. L. Mighell

The Municipal Milk Plant of Wellington, New Zealand pp. 665-668

William Kling

Intensity and Land Rent—A Rejoinder pp. 668-670

Conrad H. Hammar

Economics of Peasant Farming, by Doreen Warriner. London, Oxford University Press, 1939. Pp. 200. $4.25 pp. 673-675

John A. Hopkins

Economic Adaptation to a Changing World Market, by Carl Major Wright, Copenhagen: Ejnar Munksgaard, 1939. 305 pp. 8s. 6d. net pp. 676-678

J. P. Cavin

The Sugar Economy of Puerto Rico, by Arthur D. Gayer, Paul T. Homan and Earle K. James. New York, Columbia University Press, 1938. Pp. xviii+326, $3.75 pp. 678-682

S. L. Descartes

Analysis of Interregional Competition in Agriculture, by Sherman E. Johnson, Frank T. Hady, and others, Washington, D. C., Bureau of Agricultural Economics (mimeographed), 74 pp. 1939 pp. 682-684

E. S. Lynch

Year Book of Agricultural Cooperation, 1939, Edited by the Horace Plunkett Foundation, London, P. S. King & Son, 1939, 558 pp., 15s pp. 684-685

Joseph G. Knapp

Cooperation at Home and Abroad, by C. R. Fay, London, P. S. King & Son, Vol. I, 1936, 447 pp. Vol. II, 1939, 540 pp., 15s pp. 684

Joseph G. Knapp

Agricultural Marketing in India, by B. B. Mukherjee. Calcutta: Thacker, Spink & Col, Ltd. 1937, 259 pages, Rs. 4/8 pp. 685-686

Donald M. Rubel

Barriers to Internal Trade in Farm Products, by George R. Taylor, Edgar L. Burtis, and Frederick V. Waugh. Special Rept. to Secretary of Agriculture, U.S.D.A., 1939 pp. 686-688

Charles M. Elkinton

Social Problems in Agriculture: Record of the Permanent Agricultural Committee of the International Labor Office. London, P. S. King & Son, Ltd., 1938, pp. 162, $1.00 pp. 688-689

William T. Ham

Seven Lean Years, by T. J. Woofter, Jr., and Ellen Winston. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press. 1939. Pp. vii, 187, $1.50 pp. 689-690

H. E. Erdman

Irving G. Davis 1885–1939 pp. 694-695

F.V.W.

Arthur W. Medlar 1876–1939 pp. 695-696

H.C.F.

Volume 21, issue 2, 1939

Economic Criteria for Classifying Nonurban Land According to Probable Best Use pp. 419-434

David Weeks and H. R. Josephson

Germany's Bid for Agricultural Self Sufficiency pp. 435-461

Benjamin Higgins

Evolution of a Plan for Intra-Association Shifting of the Capital Obligations among Members pp. 462-469

H. E. Erdman and Weston W. Taylor

Status of Agricultural Trade Unions in Holland pp. 470-478

Sidney C. Sufrin

Economic Aspects of Hybrid Corn pp. 479-488

A. A. Dowell and O. B. Jesness

Intensity and Land Rent—A Reply pp. 489-494

David L. MacFarlane

Some Economic Aspects of University Patents pp. 494-498

William H. Nicholls

Type of Farming Research Again pp. 498-500

C. L. Holmes

Relation between Corn and Wheat Futures pp. 500-502

Malcolm Clough

Agricultural Adjustment and Marketing pp. 503-507

Henry E. Larzelere

Recent Farm Loan and Real Estate Experiences of Five Leading Life Insurance Companies pp. 507-511

J. H. Dickerson

Value and Capital, by J. R. Hicks. Oxford and New York, Oxford University Press, 1939. Pp. xi+331. $4.25 pp. 513-515

Albert Gailord Hart

Industrial Price Policies and Economic Progress, by Edwin G. Nourse, and Horace B. Drury. Washington, D. C.: The Brookings Institution. 1938. Pp. xi+314. $2.50 pp. 515-517

Sam. H. Thompson

Consumers and the Market, by Margaret G. Reid. New York: F. S. Crofts & Co., 1938, pp. xvi+584, $3.75 and Food Buying and Our Markets (new edition). Day Monroe, Hazel Kyrk and Ursula B. Stone. New York: M. Barrows and Co., 1938, pp. x+430, $3.00 pp. 517-520

J. M. Cassels

Income and Consumption, by Roland S. Vaile and Helen G. Canoyer. New York. Henry Holt and Company. 1938. Pp. xv+394. $2.25 pp. 520-521

H. E. Erdman

American Regionalism, by Howard W. Odum and Harry Estill Moore. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1938, pp. x+693, $5.00 pp. 521-524

Leonard A. Salter

Economic Nationalism and the Farmer, by Arthur C. Bunce. Ames, Iowa: Collegiate Press, Inc., 1938, pp. x+232, $1.50 pp. 524-527

Harald S. Patton

Entwicklung der Selbstversorgung Deutschlands mit Landwirtschaftlichen Erzeugnissen (Progress in Germany's self-sufficiency in agricultural products) by Hans v. d. Decken, Institute for Business Research, Berlin. Berichte ueber Landwirtschaft, Neue Folge, Sonderheft 138, Berlin pp. 527-529

H. H. Stippler

The German Fat Plan and Its Economc Setting, by Karl Brandt. Stanford University, California: Food Research Institute. 1938. Pp. xiii, 344. $3.00 pp. 529-531

Warren C. Waite

Trends in Size and Production of the Aggregate Farm Enterprise, 1909–36, by Raymond G. Bressler, Jr. and John A. Hopkins, Works Progress Administration, National Research Project, Report No. A-6, Philadelphia, Pa. and Trends in Employment in Agriculture, 1909+36, by Eldon E. Shaw and John A. Hopkins, Works Progress Administration, National Research Project, Report No. A-8, Philadelphia, Pa pp. 531-534

Roland R. Renne

Research Methods on Farm Use of Tractors, by N. Jasny. New York: Columbia University Press, 1938, pp. xxvi+273. Columbia University Studies in the History of American Agriculture, No. 5. $3.75 pp. 534-535

George A. Pond

Farm Practices and Their Effects on Farm Earnings, Illinois Bulletin No. 444, by M. L. Mosher and H. C. M. Case pp. 535-538

Wylie D. Goodsell

Argentine Meat and the British Market, by Simon G. Hanson. Stanford University Press, 1938, 294 pp., $3.50 pp. 538-540

C. L. Harlan

The Changing Relative Importance of the Central Livestock Market, by Edward A. Duddy and David A. Revzan. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1938, pp. 122, $1.00 pp. 540-541

A. C. Hoffman

Farm Credit in Canada, by W. T. Easterbrook. [Toronto] University of Toronto Press, 1938, 260 pp., $2.50 pp. 541-543

Fred L. Garlock

Union Internationale pour l'Étude Scientifique des Problèmes de la Population, Congrés International de la Population, Paris, 1937. Paris: Hermann et Cie, 1938. 8 volumes pp. 543-544

C. Arnold Anderson

Readjustments of Agricultural Tenure in Ireland, by Elizabeth R. Hooker, Chapel Hill, N. C.: University of North Carolina Press, 1938. Pp. 245, $4.00 pp. 544-546

Caroline B. Sherman

The Orange Industry: An Economic Study, by J. M. Thompson. Bulletin 622; California Agricultural Experiment Station, June 1938 and Maintenance of Substantial Equity in the Pooling of Lemons, by H. R. Wellman and M. D. Street. Bulletin 619, California Agricultural Experiment Station, May, 1938 pp. 546-547

Roy A. Ballinger

Volume 21, issue 1, 1939

Contributions of Agricultural Economics to Farming pp. 1-7

Carl E. Ladd

Contribution of Agricultural Economics to the General Welfare pp. 8-21

H. R. Tolley

Contribution of Agricultural Economics to the General Welfare: Discussion by H. C. M. Case pp. 21-25

H. C. M. Case

Contribution of Agricultural Economics to the General Welfare: Discussion by John D. Black pp. 25-30

John D. Black

Effects of the AAA Program Upon Regional Specialization in Agriculture pp. 31-43

H. B. Rowe

Effects of the AAA Program Upon Regional Specialization in Agriculture: Discussion by W. W. Wilcox pp. 43-45

W. W. Wilcox

Effect of the AAA on Farm Organization and Operation pp. 46-54

P. E. Johnston

Effect of the AAA on Farm Organization and Operation: Discussion by R. J. Saville pp. 55-56

R. J. Saville

Public Control of Land Use in Europe pp. 57-71

Karl Brandt

Public Control of Land Use in Europe: Discussion by M. M. Kelso pp. 71-73

M. M. Kelso

Public Control of Land Use in the United States pp. 74-85

George S. Wehrwein

Public Control of Land Use in the United States: Discussion by F. F. Elliott pp. 85-88

F. F. Elliott

How Fast Should Cooperatives Grow? pp. 89-95

H. E. Babcock

How Fast Should Cooperatives Grow: Discussion by Marvin A. Schaars pp. 95-97

Marvin A. Schaars

Adapting Farm Management Research to New Opportunities pp. 98-106

Sherman E. Johnson

Soil Productivity Related to Farm Organization and Income pp. 107-113

Guy W. Miller

Type of Farming Modifications Needed in the Great Plains pp. 114-120

E. A. Starch

Type of Farming Modifications Needed in the Great Plains: Discussion by E. C. Johnson pp. 120-122

E. C. Johnson

Federal Purchase and Administration of Submarginal Land in the Great Plains pp. 123-131

L. C. Gray

Measuring Changes in the Demand for Farm Products pp. 132-142

F. L. Thomsen

Measuring Changes in the Demand for Farm Products: Discussion by L. J. Norton pp. 142-144

L. J. Norton

Consumers' Incomes and Demand for Certain Perishable Farm Products pp. 145-154

M. P. Rasmussen

Consumers' Incomes and Demand for Certain Perishable Farm Products: Discussion by R. K. Froker pp. 154-155

R. K. Froker

Long-Time Price Changes and Farm Operation pp. 156-164

Stanley W. Warren

Technological Developments Affecting Farm Organization pp. 165-177

J. A. Hopkins

Public Assistance to Low-Income Farmers in the North pp. 178-187

R. C. Smith

Public Assistance to Low-Income Farmers of the South pp. 188-194

T. Roy Reid

Types of Livestock Markets and the Price Structure pp. 195-214

R. C. Ashby

Types of Livestock Markets and the Price Structure: Discussion by I. W. Arthur pp. 214-218

I. W. Arthur

Livestock Marketing Methods and Livestock Prices pp. 219-227

Preston Richards

Legal Responsibilities of Farm Managers and Clients pp. 228-234

True D. Morse

Economic Research Needed by Professional Farm Managers pp. 235-237

Ersel Walley

Base Periods for Farm Price Studies pp. 238-242

O. C. Stine

The Case for the 1910–14 Base pp. 243-246

F. A. Pearson and K. R. Bennett

A Base in the 1920–29 Period for Farm Price Studies pp. 247-252

E. L. Butz

The Base Period for Parity Prices pp. 253-257

L. H. Bean and P. H. Bollinger

Land Values and Government Agricultural Policy pp. 258-261

Conrad H. Hammar

Monetary Policy in Relation to Land Values pp. 262-264

Louis H. Bean

Land Values and Farm Credit Policy pp. 265-267

A. B. Lewis

Land Values and Commercial Bank Policy pp. 268-272

A. G. Brown

Land Rents and Land Values in Italy pp. 273-275

C. L. Stewart

Tax Reverted Lands in the Lake States pp. 276-279

E. J. Ellingson

Land Use Problems in Minnesota pp. 280-286

Roy M. Gilcreast

Land Use Problems in Michigan pp. 287-290

F. P. Struhsaker

Ways of Reducing Costs of Distributing Milk in New York pp. 291-298

Leland Spencer

Reducing Cost of Distributing Milk in California pp. 299-308

J. M. Tinley

Reducing Cost of Distributing Milk in Maine pp. 309-314

George F. Dow

"Education in Farm Finance" in Farm Management Extension Work pp. 315-320

C. R. Arnold

Economic Information in Farm Management Extension pp. 321-325

V. R. Wertz

Farm Records and Accounts in Farm Management Extension Work pp. 326-331

Herbert A. Berg

Farm Management Facts in Building Area and State Programs pp. 332-336

J. H. McLeod

Graphic Method in Price Analysis pp. 337-345

E. J. Working

Graphic Methods Used in Presenting Agricultural Economics Information pp. 346-353

R. G. Hainsworth

Developments Arising out of Trial Census in 1938 pp. 354-355

Z. R. Pettet

Development of Partial and Sample Census Methods pp. 356-364

Charles F. Sarle

Results of Four Methods of Sampling Individual Farms pp. 365-374

Irvin Holmes

The Complementary and Competitive Character of Agriculture in Latin America and the United States pp. 375-379

L. A. Wheeler

British Empire Trade Agreements in Relation to Trade in Farm Products between Canada and the United States pp. 380-386

J. E. Lattimer

British Empire Trade Agreements in Relation to Trade in Farm Products between Canada and the United States: A Discussion by Asher Hobson pp. 386-387

Asher Hobson

Servicing Federal Land Bank Loans through National Farm Loan Associations pp. 388-396

M. S. Kennedy

State and Local Barriers to Interstate Commerce in the United States. by Frederick E. Melder. University of Maine Studies, No. 43, 1937, pp. xiv+ 181, $.75 pp. 417-418

B. H. Hibbard