Agricultural Prices
by Henry A. Wallace
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About this eBook
- Author
- Wallace, Henry A. (Henry Agard), 1888-1965
- Title
- Agricultural prices
- Original Publication
- Des Moines, Ia.: Wallace Publishing Company, 1920.
- Credits
- Richard Tonsing and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- HB: Social sciences: Economic theory, Demography
- Subject
- Agriculture -- Statistics
- Category
- Text
- Project Gutenberg
- eBook-No. 76047
- Release Date
- May 9, 2025
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.Agricultural Prices
- 2.PREFACE
- 3.TABLE OF CONTENTS — OUR PRESENT PRICE-REGISTERING SYSTEM [1] — THREE PRICE-MAKING FORCES — CRITICISM OF OUR PRICE-MAKING SYSTEM — SUPPLY AND DEMAND — CAN “PRICE” MAKE “SUPPLY AND DEMAND”? — COST OF PRODUCTION — RATIO METHOD OF DETERMINING COST OF PRODUCING HOGS — SUPPLY AND DEMAND VERSUS COST OF PRODUCTION — CATTLE PRICES AND THE RATIO METHOD — PACKER PRICES AND THE RATIO METHOD — MILK PRICE DETERMINATION — COST OF PRODUCING CROPS — CONSUMERS’ RATIOS — TABLE 1. — TABLE 2. — TECHNIQUE OF THE RATIO METHOD — LIMITATIONS OF THE RATIO METHOD — RETAIL AND WHOLESALE PRICES — PORK EXPORTS THE BAROMETER OF CORN BELT PROSPERITY — CORN BELT LAND VALUES IN RELATION TO COST OF PRODUCING CORN — PRICE STABILITY AND SOIL FERTILITY — MEASURING TOTAL CROP PRODUCTION
- 4.Part II — MATHEMATICAL STUDY OF SUPPLY AND DEMAND IN THE HOG MARKET — BANK CLEARINGS OF THE UNITED STATES OUTSIDE NEW YORK CITY. — RECEIPTS OF HOGS AT CHICAGO IN MILLIONS OF POUNDS. — PREDICTING THE FUTURE OF HOG PRICES — PRICE OF HEAVY HOGS PER HUNDREDWEIGHT, AS PREDICTED FROM HOG RECEIPTS AND BANK CLEARINGS OUTSIDE OF NEW YORK CITY. — LIMITATIONS OF THE MATHEMATICAL METHOD — CONCLUSIONS BASED ON RATIOS AND MATHEMATICS OF SUPPLY AND DEMAND — APPENDIX — SUGGESTIONS CONCERNING THE TABLES IN THE APPENDIX — PRICES DURING 1862–1878. — Index to Tables in Appendix
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