The High Cost of Living

Frederic C. Howe

[1917]

• Title Page
• Preface
• Contents

• Chapter 1:
  The Feeding of the Nation
• Chapter 2:
  Our Agricultural Possibilities and Problems
• Chapter 3:
  The Cost of Living and the Food Supply
• Chapter 4:
  Gambling in Wheat
• Chapter 5:
  The Packers and the Cattlemen
• Chapter 6:
  Cold Storage and Food Speculation
• Chapter 7:
  The Middlemen and Distributers
• Chapter 8:
  The Transportation Embargo
• Chapter 9:
  Why There is Not More Food
• Chapter 10:
  Denmark: An Experiment Station in Agriculture
• Chapter 11:
  How Australia Controls The Food Problem
• Chapter 12:
  Opening Up the Land to Settlement
• Chapter 13:
  Food Control in Germany
• Chapter 14:
  From Producer to Consumer
• Chapter 15:
  Other Items in the Family Budget
• Chapter 16:
  Freeing the Highways of the Nation
• Chapter 17:
  The Embargo on Farming
• Chapter 18:
  Land for the Landless
• Chapter 19:
  Exploiting the Would-Be Farmer
• Chapter 20:
  The Tenant Farmer
• Chapter 21:
  Opening Up the Land to Agriculture
• Chapter 22:
  The Farmer and the Banker
• Chapter 23:
  A New Agricultural Programme
• Chapter 24:
  The New Era in Politics

• Index