University of Agricultural Sciences, Bangalore

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Foreword / Claude R. Wickard, Henry A. Wallace -- 1940 yearbook committee -- Farmers in a changing world -- summary / Gove Hambidge -- Farmer's changing world / F.F. Elliot -- Old ideals versus new ideas in farm life / Paul H. Johnstone -- American agriculture -- the first 300 years / Everett E. Edwards -- Agriculture in the world war period / A.B. Genung -- Development of agricultural policy since the end of the world war / Chester C. Davis -- Agricultural surpluses and nutritional deficits / J.P. Cavin, Hazel K. Stiebeling, Marius Farioletti -- Farmer's stake in greater industrial production / Louis H. Bean -- City man's stake in the land / Arthur P. Chew -- Agriculture today: an appraisal of the agricultural problem / O.V. Wells -- Our major agricultural land use problems and suggested lines of action / L.C. Gray -- Challenge of conservation Bushrod W. Allin, Ellery A. Foster -- Our soil can be saved / H.H. Bennett -- New range outlook / W.R. Chapline, F.G. Renner, Raymond Price -- Forest-resource conservation / R.E. Marsh, William H. Gibbons -- Farm-management problems in an era of change / Sherman E. Johnson -- Influence of technical progress on agricultural production / R.S. Kifer, B.H. Hurt, Albert Thornbrough -- Place of forests in the farm economy / Burt P. Kirkland -- Acreage allotments, marketing quotas, and commodity loans as means of agricultural adjustment / J.B. Hutson -- Meaning of foreign trade for agriculture / Arthur P. Chew -- Reciprocal trade agreements -- a new method of tariff making / L.A. Wheeler -- Methods of increasing agricultural exports / H.B. Boyd -- Industrial market for farm products W.B. Van Arsdel -- Reducing the costs of food distribution / A.C. Hoffman, F.V. Waugh -- Marketing-agreement programs as a means of agricultural adjustment / B.A. Holt, D.M. Rubel -- Thirty million customers for the surplus / Milo Perkins -- Barriers to internal trade in farm products / E.L. Burtis, F.V. Waugh -- Standardization and inspection of farm products / C.W. Kitchen -- Cooperative marketing by farmers / E.A. Stokdyk -- Growth of farm-city cooperative associations / Sidney N. Gubin -- Transportation problem of agriculture / Ralph L. Dewey, James C. Nelson -- Agricultural credit / E.C. Johnson -- Crop insurance / William H. Rowe, Leroy K. Smith -- Rural taxation / Eric Englund -- Rural electrification / Robert T. Beall -- New conditions demand new opportunities / Raymond C. Smith -- Rural people / O.E. Baker, Conrad Taueber -- Patterns of living of farm families / Day Monroe -- Overcrowded farms / W.W. Alexander -- Farm tenancy / Paul V. Maris -- Farm labor in an era of change / William T. Ham -- Beyond economics / M.L. Wilson -- Trends in national farm organizations / DeWitt C. Wing -- Cultural anthropology and modern agriculture / Robert Redfield, W. Lloyd Warner -- Democracy in agriculture -- why and how? / Rensis Likert -- Cultural setting of American agricultural problems / Ralph Turner -- Education for rural life / Edwin R. Embree -- Contribution of sociology to agriculture / Carl C. Taylor -- Philosophy of life for the American farmer (and others) / William Ernest Hocking -- Public information and the preservation of democracy / Alfred D. Stedman -- Science and agricultural policy / T. Swann Harding -- Schools of philosophy for farmers / Carl Tausch -- Old and new in agricultural organization / Milton Eisenhower, Roy I. Kimmel -- Cooperative land use planning -- a new development in democracy / Ellery A. Foster, Harold A. Vogel -- Some essentials of a good agricultural policy / H.R. Tolley -- Brief chronology of American agricultural history / Dorothy C. Goodwin, Paul H. Johnstone.