(1) Elements of Land Economics (2) Introduction to Agricultural Economics (3) Elements of Rural Economics (4) Farm Accounts (5) A Short System of Farm Costing (6) Farm Accounting

Abstract

MEN of science, in the first instance dubbed “Improvers,” have been continuously at work for at least a century and a half investigating such problems as those involved in animal- and plant-husbandry, manuring, and the mechanics of agriculture. Systematic study of the other, or economic, side of the industry has been undertaken only within the last decade. Research work under this head may-imply the compilation of elaborate cost-accounts, comparison of various methods of farming, investigation into the pros and cons of large or small-holdings or the distribution of various forms of land-tenure, inquiry into the profits accruing to each class of person engaged in the industry, study of marketing systems, and so on. Into each of these fields individual workers have gone before, but that all-important factor, continuity of effort, has, until recently, been lacking. It is, for example, possible to recover the most elaborate records of the working of particular manors more than six hundred years ago; in the seventeenth century Henry Best minutely investigated what we should now describe as the “economy” of North-country farming; a hundred years ago, full statements of farm accounts kept in Norfolk and other arable counties were published.

(1) Elements of Land Economics.

By Dr. Richard T. Ely Edward W. Morehouse. Pp. xviii + 363. (New York: The Macmillan Co., 1924.) 17s. net.

(2) Introduction to Agricultural Economics.

By Dr. Lewis Cecil Gray. (Social Science Text-Books.) Pp. xii + 556. (New York: The Macmillan Co., 1924.) 12s. net.

(3) Elements of Rural Economics.

By Prof. Thomas Nixon Carver. Pp. v + 266. (Boston and London: Ginn and Co., 1924.) 7s. net.

(4) Farm Accounts.

By C. S. Orwin. (Cambridge Farm Institute Series.) Second edition, revised. Pp. vi + 140. (Cambridge: At the University Press, 1924.) 5s. net.

(5) A Short System of Farm Costing.

By H. R. J. Holmes. Pp. 107. (London: Oxford University Press, 1924.) 6s. 6d. net.

(6) Farm Accounting.

By Prof. E. L. Currier Prof. N. J. Lennes Prof. A. S. Merrill. Pp. ix + 287. (New York: The Macmillan Co., 1924.) 7s. net.