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McFall, Robert James, 1887-1963

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Robert James McFall Papers

1918-1926
1 box 0.5 linear feet
Call no.: FS 133
Depiction of Robert J. McFall<br />Photo by Frank A. Waugh, 1927
Robert J. McFall
Photo by Frank A. Waugh, 1927

A specialist in agricultural marketing, Robert J. McFall arrived at the Massachusetts Agricultural College in January 1920 to take up work with the Extension Service. A graduate of Geneva College and Phd from Columbia University (1915), McFall had worked with the Canadian Bureau of Statistics for two years before his arrival in Amherst.

The McFall collection includes a suite of published and unpublished works in agricultural economics, including an incomplete run of Economic Reports from MAC on business conditions (1921-1925), and papers on agricultural cooperation in Massachusetts, municipal abattoirs, business regulation in Canada, agriculture and population increase, and the New England dairy market. Of particular note is a monograph-length work co-authored by McFall and Alexander Cance, entitled “The Massachusetts Agricultural College in its Relations to the Food Supply Program of the Commonwealth.”

Subjects

Agricultural economicsCance, Alexander E. (Alexander Edmond), 1874-Dairy products industry--MassachusettsFood supply--MassachusettsMassachusetts Agricultural College--FacultyMassachusetts Agricultural College. Department of Agricultural Economics

Contributors

McFall, Robert James, 1887-1963