02837cam a22003493u 4500 76047 UtSlPG 20260610134747.0 m cr n 260607r20251920utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d 20006762 UtSlPG en iso639-1 HB Wallace, Henry A. (Henry Agard), 1888-1965 Agricultural prices Salt Lake City, UT : Project Gutenberg, 2025 1 online resource : multiple file formats text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Release date is 2025-05-09 Richard Tonsing and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) "Agricultural Prices" by Henry A. Wallace is a scientific publication written in the early 20th century. The book focuses on the economic factors affecting the prices of agricultural products, targeting farmers, students, agricultural agents, and leaders of farm organizations. Its central topic is an exploration of the forces that determine farm prices—primarily cost of production, supply and demand, and strategic market considerations—with an aim to foster a better, more mathematically informed understanding of price trends and how to interpret or influence them. The opening of "Agricultural Prices" introduces Wallace’s purpose: to bridge the gap between theoretical economics and practical farm management regarding agricultural pricing. Wallace begins with a preface that lays out the book’s audience and intent, emphasizing the need for farmers and farm leaders to understand pricing mechanisms and statistical economics. He explains the intricacies of how prices are registered, particularly through the futures market on the Chicago Board of Trade, outlining both the perceived gambling nature of speculation and its actual role as risk insurance. The early chapters detail the interplay of cost of production, supply and demand, and strategy in agricultural price formation, and they introduce the "ratio method" as a way to determine fair prices for products like hogs based on historical data. This analytical approach, combined with historical examples, sets the stage for a detailed, mathematical study of agricultural price trends throughout the rest of the book. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Originally published: Des Moines, Ia.: Wallace Publishing Company, 1920 Prices Farm produce Agriculture -- Statistics https://archive.org/details/agriculturalpric02wall https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76047 116772 116772