Guide to Garnet Wolsey Forster, Outline of Agricultural Economics, undated

Collection Number MSS 134

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Abstract:

This book contains 40 typed pages related to agricultural economics and agricultural production. The first 19 pages consist of 18 lecture outlines on such topics as the fundamental principles of organization, the economic characteristics of agricultural production, and the wages of agricultural labor. The next three pages discuss the theory of the least cost combination. The final 28 pages consist of an essay entitled "Production in Agriculture."

G. W. (Garnet Wolsey) Forster (1887 - 1961) founded the Department of Agricultural Economics at North Carolina State College of Agriculture and Engineering (later North Carolina State University) in 1923 and served as its head until 1950. He earned his bachelor's degree from Cornell University in 1914, his master's degree from the University of Wisconsin in 1917, and his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin in 1923. Before coming to N.C. State, Forster was a professor of Agriculture and Economics at the University of Kentucky from 1919 to 1920, assistant chief of Farm Management and Farm Economics, United States Department of Agriculture from 1920 until 1921, and acting chief of the same department from 1922 to 1923. In 1957, he received the "Distinguished Fellow" award from the American Farm Economics Association for being one of the ten outstanding farm economists in the United States.

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Descriptive Summary

Repository

North Carolina State University Libraries, Special Collections Research Center

Creator

Forster, G. W. (Garnet Wolsey), 1887 - 1961

Title

Outline of Agricultural Economics, undated/ by Garnet Wolsey Foster

Call Number

MSS 134

Extent

40 pages

Location

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Language of Material

English

Information for Users

Restrictions to Access

This collection is open for research; access requires at least 24 hours advance notice; access requires at least 24 hours advance notice.
Acquisitions Information

Transferred from C. B. King (D. H. Hill Library Collection Development and Organization), 1981 February 20
Preferred Citation

Garnet Wolsey Forster, Outline of Agricultural Economics, MSS 134, Special Collections Research Center, North Carolina State University Libraries, Raleigh, NC
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Scope and Content Note


This book contains 40 typed pages related to agricultural economics and agricultural production. The first 19 pages consist of 18 lecture outlines on such topics as the fundamental principles of organization, the economic characteristics of agricultural production, and the wages of agricultural labor. The next three pages discuss the theory of the least cost combination. The final 28 pages consist of an essay entitled "Production in Agriculture."

Online Catalog Terms

  • Agriculture--Economic aspects.

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