Diminishing Returns in Agriculture / / F. Lester Patton.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press eBook-Package Archive 1898-1999
• VerfasserIn: Patton, F. Lester,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [1968]; ©1968
• Year of Publication: 1968
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in History, Economics, and Public Law ; 284
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (100 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Preface --; Table of Contents --; Chapter I. The Problem of Diminishing Returns in Agriculture --; Chapter II. The Tests of Diminishing Returns --; Chapter III. Diminishing Physical Returns in the Sources of Power for Agricultural Operations --; Chapter IV. Diminishing Physical Returns in the Application of Fertilizers, Seed and Cultivation to the Soil --; Chapter V. Diminishing Physical Returns in Food Transformation by Farm Animals --; Chapter VI. Anticlinal Profits in Agricultural Enterprise --; Chapter VII. The Problem of Secular Diminishing Returns in Agricultural Development --; Chapter VIII. Summary and Conclusions --; Bibliography --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780231880886; 9783110442489
• DOI: 10.7312/patt90866
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: F. Lester Patton.

An essay on the results of certain agricultural experiments on the problem of securing a more precise formulation of the conventional law of diminishing returns. Specifically examines the factors responsible for the rise and fall of returns in agricultural enterprise and statistics of the past history of agricultural productivity.