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THE scope of this treatise is perhaps more accurately indicated by its alternative title: it is primarily a text-book of economics, the concrete illustrations being taken preferably from objects and practices familiar to agriculturists. The book is accordingly addressed to this class of the community, though it may be doubted whether the ordinary farmer, at all events in this country, will be competent to make much practical use of the principles expounded. The position of farming, especially in the older civilised States, has perhaps undergone more change during the last thirty years than that of any other great industry, since it is practically within this period that the cultivator has had to learn to face the competition, not merely of his own countrymen, but of the whole world. It is therefore all the more necessary that he should be thoroughly acquainted with the modern conditions under which he has to work; in this respect, the remarks on the importance, as a factor in prices, of the increased facilities for marketing the enormous quantities of grain and other farm products raised in the United States, are very much to the point.
Rural Wealth and Welfare: Economic Principles illustrated and applied in Farm Life.
By Geo. T. Fairchild (New York: The Macmillan Company, 1900; London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd.)
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Rural Wealth and Welfare: Economic Principles illustrated and applied in Farm Life . Nature 62, 245 (1900). https://doi.org/10.1038/062245b0
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