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Issues in the Measurement of Efficiency of American Dairy Farming, 1850–1910: A Comment

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 February 2011

Gerald Gunderson
Affiliation:
University of Massachusetts

Abstract

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Copyright
Copyright © The Economic History Association 1969

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References

1 Bateman, Fred, “Improvement in American Dairy Farming, 1850–1910: A Quantitative Analysis,” The Journal of Economic History, XXVIII (June 1968), 255–73CrossRefGoogle Scholar; and Bateman, Fred, “Labor Inputs and Productivity in American Dairy Agriculture: 1850–1910,” The Journal of Economic History, XXIX (June 1969), pp. 206229.CrossRefGoogle Scholar (Hereafter cited as “Improvement” and “Labor,” respectively.)

2 Bateman, “Improvement,” pp. 255–56.

3 Ibid., p. 271.

4 Bateman, “Labor.”

5 Ibid., p. 211.

6 Ibid., p. 208–9.

7 Ibid., p. 220.