Restoration of micro data of John Lossing Buck's survey and analysis of the inverse relationship between yield and farm size in rural China in the 1930's

A large scale Chinese agricultural survey was conducted at the direction of John Lossing Buck from 1929 through 1933. At the end of the 1990’s, some parts of the original micro data of Buck’s survey were discovered at Nanjing Agricultural University. An international joint study was begun to restore micro data of Buck’s survey and construct parts of the micro database on both the crop yield survey and special expenditure survey. This paper includes a summary of the characteristics of farmlands and cropping patterns in crop yield micro data that covered 2,102 farmers in 20 counties of 9 provinces. In order to test the classical hypothesis of whether or not an inverse relationship between land productivity and cultivated area may be observed in developing countries, a Box-Cox transformation test was conducted for functional forms on five main crops of Buck’s crop yield survey. The result of the test shows that the relationship between land productivity and cultivated areas of wheat and barley is linear and somewhat negative; those of rice, rapeseed, and seed cotton appear to be slightly positive. It can be tentatively concluded that the relationship between cultivated area and land productivity are not the same among crops, and the difference of labor intensity and the level of commercialization of each crop may be strongly related to the existence or non-existence of inverse relationships.

The Oxford survey of the British Empire ...

[I] The British Isles and Mediterranean possessions (Gibraltar, Malta, Cyprus)--[II] Asia including the Indian Empire and dependencies, Ceylon, British Malaya & Far Eastern possessions.--[III] Africa including South Africa, Rhodesia, Nyasaland, British East Africa, Uganda, Somaliland, Anglo-Egyptian Sudan & Egypt, Gambia, Sierra Leone, Gold Coast, Nigeria, Walfish Bay, with Mauritius and other islands in the Indian and Atlantic oceans.--[IV] America including Canada, Newfoundland, the British West Indies, and the Falkland Islands & dependencies.--[V] Australasia including Australia, New Zealand, the Western Pacific & the British sector in Antarctica.--[VI] General survey including administration, legal problems, history, defence, education, acclimatization, mapping, commerce, communication, migration.

The Elector's guide. Addressed to the freeholders of the county of York.

No. I. The "Catholic question".--No. II. The general state of the country banks and paper money; Death of Alexander, emperor of Russia; State of parties in the kingdom; A letter to Fountayne Wilson, esq.; Duncombe and the treadmill; Poetry and miscellanies.--No. III. A letter to the Duke of York; Auri sacra fames; or, Sturdy beggars: a county job; Church Methodism; A Protestant confessor; His Majesty's speech to Parliament; Miscellanies, and poetry.--No. IV. A letter to Daniel Sykes, esq. on West Indian slavery; Catholic and Protestant; The last man; Confidence in banks; Hints to electors; The proceedings in Parliament, &c., &c., &c.--No. V. An address to the suffering people of England; Slavery; A letter to Sir John Bayley, knt,; Banks; The Protestant champion; Poetry, &c., &c.--No. VI. A charge of His Grace the Archbishop of York to the clergy of the diocese; A secret; A good action.--No. VII. Observations upon county representation; A full account of the county meeting, &c., &c.

Ecclesiastical memorials, relating chiefly to religion, and the reformation of it and the emergencies of the Church of England under King Henry VIII., King Edward VI., and Queen Mary I., with large appendixes, containing original papers, records, [etc.]

v.1,pt.1. Ecclesiastical memorials... under King Henry VIII.-v.1,pt.2. Appendix, containing records, letters and other original writings referred to in the Memorials under the reign of Kin Henry VIII.-v.2, pt.1-2. Historical memorials, chiefly ecclesiastical...under the reign and influence of King Edward the Sixth.-v.3, pt.1-2. Historical memorials, ecclesiastical and civil of events under the reign of Queen Mary I.

The letters of the Rev. John Wesley ...

First edition.

Annals of the Honorable East-India Company,

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