Abstract
IN the early agricultural systems the production and processing of food, drink and clothing was carried out within the farmer's family. It is a feature of a developed agriculture that the cultivator finds full-time occupation on the land, handing over his product to form the starting point of associated industries of ever-increasing extent and complexity. The United States offers an extensive field for the study of the economic and technical problems which these agricultural industries present; for in that country the manufacturing and processing industries based on agricultural raw materials account for no less than 15 per cent of the total industrial output and employ nearly a million people.
The Agricultural Industries
By Prof. Deane W. Malott Boyce F. Martin. Pp. viii + 483. (New York and London: McGraw-Hill Book Co., Inc., 1939.) 26s.
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The Agricultural Industries. Nature 146, 504–505 (1940). https://doi.org/10.1038/146504b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/146504b0
