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OUTLINE OF INTRODUCTION
AMERICAN AGRICULTURAL CENSUSES
The importance of America as a leading country of capitalism. A model. Ahead of the others. Most freedom, etc.
Agricultural evolution. The significance, importance and
complexity of the question.
American agricultural statistics. Decennial censuses.
Similar material.
Himmer as a collection of bourgeois views. Inthis respect his short article is worth volumes.
The gist of his attitude: “family-labour” farms (or farmers)
or capitalist farms. Main propositions. “Decline of Capitalism”?
VARIANTS OF PLAN
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3 main divisions and  subdivisions.
3 sections and 2 subdivisions (9 divisions)
Cf. p. 4 of the extracts from the 1 9 0 0 edition: in
1900 there were 5 divisions,* which is more reasonable.
Population density.
Per cent of urban population.
Population increase.
* See p. 427.—Ed.

MATERIAL ON THE CAPITALIST ECONOMY
Settlement (homesteads).
Growing number of farms.
Increase in improved area.
Intensiveness of agriculture.
capital fertilisers.
Hired labour.
Crops (agricultural).
Yields.
Average farm acreage and its changes by divisions in time.
Percentage distribution of total value of farms and value
of agricultural implements & machines.
Sale-purchase of feedstuffs and livestock products.
Negroes in the South and their flight to the cities. Immigrants and their urge to move to the cities.
Hired labour in agriculture.
Expenditures for wages.
Occupation statistics.
Owners versus tenants in general in the South.
Mortgaged farms. Increase.
Number of farms owning horses and changes.
Number of farms (by groups) and changes.
Acreage of improved land (idem) and changes.
Dairy cattle (and its concentration). . . .
Plantations in the South.
Overall picture of industry and agriculture in their class
structure and development.
Threemethodsofgrouping. N.B.)
(1900). . . .
Latifundia and decrease in their acreage.
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The main thing: three sections and
A) 2 divisions of the North (New England & Middle
Atlantic). . . .
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Add: the prices of industrial products
B) The South—“decline of capitalism”.
C) Summaries of acreage groups.
D) Comparison of three types of groupings.
settlement.
latifundia.
Owners versus tenants.
Overall picture of agriculture and industry.
III
1. Introduction. The importance of the question.
Material. “Himmer”.
2. General essay 3(&2) main sections (general
characteristic)
resp. 3-5 §§ (homestead) West
Transition from homestead to (industrial) North settled areas
(slave-holding) South (1 division)
(1 division)
3. Average farm acreage (1850-1910)
4. Acreage groups.
5. Ibid. Percentage distribution of total value and
value of machinery.
6. Groups by income.
7.
 ” ” principal source of income (“specialities”)
8. Comparison of the 3 groupings.
9. Expropriation of the small farmers.
summaries for the United States groupings mortgaged owners and tenants
farms.
ownership of horses
10. Hired labour in agriculture.
11. Considerable decrease in the acreage of the latifundia.
12. Overall picture.
Further (after 13 §§) roughly:
14. Expropriation of small farmers
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