ABSTRACT

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.

chapter I|23 pages

Nature and the Farmer

chapter II|25 pages

Agricultural Settlement in New Areas

chapter III|25 pages

Disposing of the Public Domain

chapter IV|25 pages

Land and Labor in the New South

chapter V|24 pages

Southern Crops and Special Problems

chapter VI|23 pages

The Progress of Farm Mechanization

chapter VII|25 pages

The Expansion of Prairie Agriculture

chapter VIII|24 pages

Special Problems of Prairie Farmers

chapter XII|23 pages

Governmental Activity in Agriculture

chapter XIII|38 pages

The Agrarian Uprising

chapter XIV|20 pages

Farmers’ Cooperative Movements

chapter XV|30 pages

The Farmer and the Nation

chapter XVI|36 pages

The Literature of the Subject