1960-1969 Dissertations (MU)
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Factors influencing use of credit in American agriculture (including comparisons with India)
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1961)"Since credit is one of the most important ways of gaining control of agricultural resources, an understanding of the factors affecting its use is essential to the economic development of any country. Funds can be provided ... -
An analysis of the agricultural base and potential in State Economic Area 2b in northeast Missouri
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1965)Important changes have occurred since 1950 in the agriculture of the State Economic Area 2b, a sixteen county area in northeast Missouri. The changes have been induced by broad movements in economic and technological forces ... -
Milk supply response in Greater Kansas City marketing area
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1964)The growth of the dairy industry has been an important factor in the agricultural development of the United States. Missouri has shared in this development. The sale of dairy products has contributed nine to thirteen percent ... -
An analysis of record systems for farm management
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1968)This study was designed to provide information as to the efficiency of EDP farm record systems in meeting the record requirements of large multiple-enterprise farming operations. Because of the many questions raised about ... -
A study of the relationship between selected educational experiences of vocational agriculture students and their enrolling in a College of Agriculture
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1967)PURPOSE: The principal purpose of this study was to determine whether or not selected educational experiences of students from certain vocational agriculture departments tended to be significantly related to the students’ ... -
A managerial-economics analysis of selected Midwestern Class I motor common carriers of refrigerated commodities
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1966)At least 60 per cent of the food consumed in this country requires temperature control in the distribution process. Although regulated motor carriers transport important quantities of perishable products, the organisational ... -
English literature and modern Bengali short fiction : a study in influences
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1969)Modern short fiction is defined as a genre which deals, by means of a process of oblique questioning, with the concerns of "submerged population groups." Because answers to these questions are not necessarily supplied by ... -
An analysis of livestock marketing patterns in Missouri
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1960)"Missouri is fortunate in its strategic location near the heart of the grain belt east of the Great plains cattle producing areas and on the western fringe of concentrated centers of population. A combination of favorable ... -
Potential of India as a net exporter of cotton and cotton textile goods
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1965)Among agricultural commodities, cotton and cotton textile goods are second only to tea in the contribution to India’s export earnings. This study was designed to explore the possibility of augmenting the supply of cotton ... -
A study of the structures of Shakespeare's three parts of Henry VI
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1965)"The purpose of this study is, therefore, to isolate and describe Shakespeare’s achievement in each of the Henry VI plays. The emphasis throughout will be upon the Shakespearean structure, the "new organ of thought" resulting ... -
Frost and Thoreau : a study in affinities
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1968)Although a few critics have posited Henry David Thoreau as a conscious influence on Robert Frost, the purpose of this study is to demonstrate a significant set of affinities in the thought and attitudes of the two men. For ... -
Indexes of the influence of weather on corn yields in Missouri
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1964)Aggregate measures of outputs and inputs are published periodically by the Bureau of Census, U.S. Department of Commerce, to help in understanding the changing economic situation. Two types of variation, systematic and ... -
An analysis of interregional variation in general hospital expenses
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1969)The dynamics of the medical care industry cannot escape the interest of the economist. Within the past one hundred years, the primary production unit in the industry, the hospital, has advanced from a practitioner’s workshop ... -
A study of the early Tudor comedies
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1965)"After centuries of theatrical entertainment that consisted of miracle plays, mysteries, folk plays, festival plays, interludes, pageants, moralities, banns, tilts, disguisings, entertainments, masks, and mummings, there ... -
Irrigation practices and costs in southeastern Missouri - 1959
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1961)Field crop irrigation is a relatively new production technique in Missouri. Prior to this investigation, only United information was available concerning costs and returns. The research reported here was assigned to determine ... -
The development and evaluation of a method of estimating Missouri country farm income from secondary data
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1962)"Specific objectives: There are discrepancies in farm income between counties in a given state. The extent and nature of these discrepancies are concealed when income is aggregated into a single figure for the state. The ... -
Scale and utilization economics in feeding cattle under three feeding systems : a feasibility study
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1967)"Since the end of World War II the cattle feeding industry in the United States has been characterized by three major, and to a certain degree, related developments: 1. A marked expansion in numbers. In the two decades ... -
The speaker in the major poems of William Cowper
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1968)"The fate of William Cowper as poet may very well turn out to be analogous to what threatened to be the fate of Samuel Johnson: the history of the man will become more important than his literary achievement. Of course the ... -
The Missouri Department of Community Affairs : a politico-administrative analysis
(University of Missouri--Columbia., 1968)The State of Missouri established, in 1967, a high- level administrative department to deal with urban problems, one of only seven such agencies on the departmental level in state administrative structures in the United ... -
An analysis of an alternative marketing system for cotton involving delayed ginning through various storage techniques
(University of Missouri--Columbia., 1964)For technical reasons, cotton gins normally operate at constant rates, and vary hours of operation to accommodate available volume. In this sense, time becomes an input and, in the case of cotton gins, a cost reducing input ...