Project Gutenberg 2025-05-09 Public domain in the USA. 301 Wallace, Henry A. (Henry Agard) 1888 1965 Wallace, Henry Agard 20006762 Agricultural prices $aDes Moines, Ia. :$bWallace Publishing Company, $c1920. Richard Tonsing and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) "Agricultural Prices" by Henry A. Wallace is a scientific publication written in the early 20th century. The book focuses on the economic factors affecting the prices of agricultural products, targeting farmers, students, agricultural agents, and leaders of farm organizations. Its central topic is an exploration of the forces that determine farm prices—primarily cost of production, supply and demand, and strategic market considerations—with an aim to foster a better, more mathematically informed understanding of price trends and how to interpret or influence them. The opening of "Agricultural Prices" introduces Wallace’s purpose: to bridge the gap between theoretical economics and practical farm management regarding agricultural pricing. Wallace begins with a preface that lays out the book’s audience and intent, emphasizing the need for farmers and farm leaders to understand pricing mechanisms and statistical economics. He explains the intricacies of how prices are registered, particularly through the futures market on the Chicago Board of Trade, outlining both the perceived gambling nature of speculation and its actual role as risk insurance. The early chapters detail the interplay of cost of production, supply and demand, and strategy in agricultural price formation, and they introduce the "ratio method" as a way to determine fair prices for products like hogs based on historical data. This analytical approach, combined with historical examples, sets the stage for a detailed, mathematical study of agricultural price trends throughout the rest of the book. (This is an automatically generated summary.) https://archive.org/details/agriculturalpric02wall 20170219133848wallace 1920 US Reading ease score: 78.2 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. en Prices Farm produce Agriculture -- Statistics HB Text Category: Science - Earth/Agricultural/Farming Category: Economics 2178268 2025-07-30T06:28:00.799871 text/html 2205244 2025-05-09T20:08:59 text/html 4613578 2025-07-30T06:28:56.514142 application/epub+zip 4631913 2025-07-30T06:28:11.146825 application/epub+zip 361193 2025-07-30T06:28:05.571878 application/epub+zip 5046096 2025-07-30T06:29:09.671015 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 5228578 2025-07-30T06:28:50.170658 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 1156804 2025-07-30T06:27:42.342929 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 1136924 2025-05-09T20:08:59 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 16692 2025-07-30T06:29:10.010995 application/rdf+xml 7657 2025-07-30T06:28:06.449803 image/jpeg 1694 2025-07-30T06:28:06.014821 image/jpeg 4810656 2025-07-30T06:28:01.018879 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia