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Page 27 - ... be interrelated. In statistical terminology, they may be described as follows: 1. Corresponding cyclical fluctuations with no alteration of the secular trend. An example is the relationship between the marriage rate and the business cycle. Scores of studies in the past hundred years, covering many of the countries of western Europe as well as the United States, have shown that when business is good the marriage rate is high and when business is bad, the marriage rate is low. 2. Corresponding...
Page 102 - ... near future. One tract of approximately 1,100 acres, which still contains the original poplar, will average 10,000 board feet per acre. PRESENT METHODS OF LUMBERING. The chief method of lumbering now carried on in the county is by means of large mills, using logging railroads for transportation of the logs to the mill and the lumber from the mill to the market. This necessitates large expenditures for improvements, including the mills, the railroads, the houses for the employees at the mills,...
Page 49 - Being one of the hardiest of spring vegetables, the seed may be sown as early in the spring as the ground can be worked.
Page 201 - ... as the case may be. to the watercourse, Indian boundary line, or other external boundary of such fractional township.
Page 281 - Consider that the eighteen provinces alone, with an area about equal to that part of the United States east of the Mississippi River, have eight times the population of that part of our country.
Page 184 - ... the Boston & Maine, the New York, New Haven & Hartford, the Boston & Albany, and to some extent upon the Maine Central and Bangor & Aroostook.
Page 59 - It takes four and a half bushels of wheat to make a barrel of flour. "When the wheat raiser was getting $8.37 for the wheat, the miller got $12.50 for the flour, the baker $58.70 for the bread, and the hotel keeper selling the bread in slices in Washington received $587.
Page 35 - The White Mountains in New Hampshire, the Green Mountains in Vermont, and the scattered mountain peaks of Maine, Massachusetts, and northwestern Connecticut all rise sharply and F1o.