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An investigation of farm land credit
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1915)
The problem of rural credit in the United States is growing rapidly in importance. Within the last few years it has attracted the attention of farmers, financiers, legislators, and city dwellers. Several commissions have ...
Investigations of rural conditions in Boone County, Missouri, as related to the county farm adviser
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1916)
The agricultural development of the past five years has established in thirty-three states of the union outside of the southern states "County Agricultural Agents" or "Farm Advisers" whose duty it is to live in the county in which they work...
Study in efficiency of farm machinery in its relation to farm labor
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1912)
the supervision of the U. S. Department of Agriculture, during April, May and June of 1911 on farms in Saline County, Missouri. The farms in this county are practically level and free from stumps and stones. The formulas and the explanations of the same which...
A study of types of farming in the U.S. by the farm management survey method
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1919)
of Agricultural science. This study was made from the 1910 Census. The object sought in this investigation in farm management is to secure the elementary facts which must be utilized in organizing and conducting the business of the farm in such a way as to give...
The efficiency of the farm diary in accounting investigations
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1914)
certain extent and in a modified form by farmers over the country, but it has been used very little, if any, as a means of securing data for investigational purposes, except in a small way by the U.S. Department of Agriculture at Washington. The diary has...
Work stock management
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1913)
The object of this investigation is to arrive at some conclusion or determine, if possible, the most satisfactory means or methods of management of the work stock or work animals on the farms in actual operation.
The distribution of farm labor
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1917)
It is important that a farmer know the labor requirements in the productions of the various crops and in the production of the various classes of livestock, and that he know what influence a combination of crops and stock ...
Methods of renting land in Missouri, with some common forms of lease
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1916)
The rapid growth of tenancy in this country during the past few decades makes this subject one of the leading agricultural problems of the day. This growth is a natural one. When a country is new, land can be obtained very cheaply, or even from...
Distribution of labor and its relation to farm management
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1912)
Department of Agriculture, and has been carried on since, through cooperation with them. The original purpose was to obtain data on the cost of production, but the new and more productive field for studying the labor problem of the farmer, was broken into...