Excerpt from Exurban Development in Selected Areas of the Appalachian Mountains The acreage of land used for agriculture in mountain areas continues to decline, largely because the farms cannot compete with better situated commercial farms. Many open fields illustrate the declining interest in good husbandry. Weeds grow in the sun, and seedling trees develop unmolested along the forest edge. Fields long abandoned merge with the forest as these volunteer seedlings take over. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.