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IV. Distance as a factor in rate making, 279. — 1. Rates increase with distance, 282. — 2. Modifications of the distance principle, 288. — V. Natural advantages of location, 291. — 1. Natural advantages due to lower costs, 294. — 2. Natural advantages due to distance, 303. — 3. Group rates, 307. — 4. Natural advantages due to competition, 314. — VI. Competition as a factor in rate making, 317. — 1. Competition between carriers subject to and those not subject to the act to regulate commerce, 319. — 2. Competition between carriers subject to the act, 323. — 3. Competition between places or sections, 329.

Contrast between the North Atlantic and the North Central States, 105. — Relation between value of land and per cent of tenancy, 107. — Low value of land and low rate of tenancy in New England, 108. — Relation of type of agriculture to tenancy, 109. — Percentage of selected crops grown by tenants in different states, 110. — Dairy farming and tenancy, 111. — Live stock and tenancy, 112. — Fruit growing and tenancy, 112. — General decrease in tenancy during the past decade, 115. — Occasion for the decrease, 117. — Table showing tenancy for North Atlantic States for 1880 to 1910, 117.

The tenancy problem one of many phases, 710. — Characterization of the North Central States, 712. — Relation of tenancy to value of land, by states, 714. — The same by groups of counties, 717. — Influenced by size of farms, 719. — By type of farming, 720. — Tenancy and the corn belt, 723. — Extensive and intensive farming, 724. — Summary, 728.

Journal Article The British Report Upon Real Wages in America and England Get access Wesley C. Mitchell Wesley C. Mitchell University of California Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Volume 26, Issue 1, November 1911, Pages 160–163, https://doi.org/10.2307/1884530 Published: 01 November 1911

Farmers' Mutual Fire Insurance in Minnesota Get access Victor Nelson Valoren Victor Nelson Valoren University of Nebraska Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Volume 25, Issue 2, February 1911, Pages 387–396, https://doi.org/10.2307/1884955 Published: 01 February 1911

The check-off system now in general use by the United Mine Workers, 730. — Why the operators have granted it: a precedent in the existing check-off for supplies, and in the presence of the check-weigh-man, 731. — History of the check-off system for union dues, 734. — Its main features, 735. — The unions' "card day" done away with, 737. — Effect of the check-off in strengthening the union, 738. — It acts to bring about virtually, tho not formally, the closed shop, 739.

Journal Article The Wisconsin Income Tax Get access Kossuth Kent Kennan Kossuth Kent Kennan Madison, Wis. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Volume 26, Issue 1, November 1911, Pages 169–178, https://doi.org/10.2307/1884532 Published: 01 November 1911

Journal Article The Trustworthiness of the Bureau of Labor's Index Number of Wages Get access Wesley C. Mitchell Wesley C. Mitchell University of California Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Volume 25, Issue 3, May 1911, Pages 613–620, https://doi.org/10.2307/1883618 Published: 01 May 1911

The Position of Income Bonds, as Illustrated by those of the Central of Georgia Railway Get access Arthur S. Dewing Arthur S. Dewing Harvard University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Volume 25, Issue 2, February 1911, Pages 396–405, https://doi.org/10.2307/1884956 Published: 01 February 1911

The course of speculative activity since 1890, 186. — Movement of particular issues, 187. — Speculative activity of railway bonds, 189. — Pooling contracts, 194. — Speculation by "insiders", 195. — Abrupt changes of dividend, 197. — Secrecy in accounting, 198. — The Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton, 201. — Speculation by outsiders, 204. — The Southern Pacific pool of 1902, 204. — The Louisville and Nashville pool of 1903, 206. — The Reading and Boston and Maine episode of 1893, 208. — The Pearson-Farquhar syndicate, 1910, 209. — Publicity as a remedy, 210. — Regulation of capital issues, 212. — Taxation of transfers, 213. — The outlook for the future, 214.