Production in Agriculture.

%xmlchars; ]> mss00134 Guide to Garnet Wolsey Forster, Outline of Agricultural Economics, undated Processed by: Special Collections Staff;machine-readable finding aid created by: Dawne E. Howard North Carolina State University Libraries, Special Collections Research Center 2005 Machine-readable finding aid derived from xml authoring program Finding aid written in English. Guide to Garnet Wolsey Forster, Outline of Agricultural Economics, undated MSS 134 North Carolina State University Libraries Special Collections Research Center Contact Information: &ncsuaddr; Processed bySpecial Collections Staff Encoded byDawne E. Howard, September 2005 Descriptive Summary North Carolina State University Libraries, Special Collections Research Center Forster, G. W. (Garnet Wolsey), 1887 - 1961 Outline of Agricultural Economics, undated/ by Garnet Wolsey Foster MSS 134 40 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. For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the Special Collections Research Center Reference Staff. English Information for Users Restrictions to Access

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

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

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. Related Material Garnet Wolsey Forster Biographical File, UA 50.3 Detailed Description of Collection 4MSS 134Outline of Agricultural Economics, undated