Date of Award
7-1951
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Science
Degree Discipline
Agriculture
Abstract
The change in agriculture from a purely self-sufficing economy to a commercial economy has been so pronounced that many writers have characterized modern farming as capitalistic - similar in its capital requirements to urban industries. This analogy is faulty. It is true; that farming has many of the characteristics of a capitalistic enterprise, but, in other respects, it differs markedly from the bonafide urban enterprises.
It is self-sufficient to a large extent with respect to food, fuel, labor and power. Large capital investment and minute division of labor, which characterize many urban enterprises, are uncommon in agriculture if indeed not entirely absent. Then, too, in many urban enterprises, the function of ownership and management have been separated. In farming, on the other hand, these functions have been combined, as a mile, in the farm operator. The unit of organization in urban enterprises tend® to be large; in farming the unit of organization is small. In these and other Important ways, fanning is different from the purely capitalistic enterprise. These differences, as to both kind and degree, warrant the designation of agriculture as a quasi-capitalistic enterprise. In short, agriculture partakes of the nature of both commercial and self-sufficient economies.
Committee Chair/Advisor
J. M. Coruthers
Committee Member
G.L. Smith
Committee Member
G.L. Smith
Publisher
Prairie View Agricultural and Mechanical College
Rights
© 2021 Prairie View A & M University
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Date of Digitization
1/14/2022
Contributing Institution
John B Coleman Library
City of Publication
Prairie View
MIME Type
Application/PDF
Recommended Citation
Boozer, F. E. (1951). A Study of The Farming Practices Of Fifty Negro Farmers In Leon County, Texas. Retrieved from https://digitalcommons.pvamu.edu/pvamu-theses/930