Excerpt from Power on West Virginia Farms Table 1 shows the ratio of agricultural workers to all persons gainfully employed in the United States from 1820 to 1930. 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.

Excerpt from Organization and Management of Typical West Virginia Farms West Virginia is important both as an industrial and as an agri cultural state. Her farms of more than five and one half mil lion acres of improved farm lands with an investment of nearly $500, constitute an enterprise worthy of consideration. The farm ing of the state is general or diversified with livestock as one of the principal enterprises. In a few sections where climate and soil are especially adapted to such, or where markets are easily accessible, specialized farms are found. 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.

Excerpt from West Virginia as a Poultry State In the first place the farmers of West Virginia should keep more fowls. According to the last census farms, or per cent of all farms in the State, reported fowls. 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.

Excerpt from Types of Farming in West Virginia This type of farming study of the State of West Virginia was under taken In order to acquire an understanding of the agriculture of the state as a Whole; to locate the different type of farming areas and to determine the character of farm types within these areas in terms of farm organiza tions, crop and livestock patterns, and sources of farm incomes; to identify and evaluate the relative importance of the physical and eco nomic conditions which have been and are now shaping the types of farming in the various areas. The sources of data upon which this study is based are reports of the Bureau of the Census, United States Department of Commerce; the Bureaus of Chemistry and Soils, Agricultural Economics, and Weather in the United States Department of Agriculture; the Geological Survey, Department of, the Interior; the West Virginia State Geologist; the West Virginia Agricultural Experiment Station; and the West Virginia Agri cultural Extension Service. 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.

Excerpt from Farming Adjustments and Agricultural Conservation Programs in West Virginia The soils of West Virginia have been classified as to use on the basis of combined fertility, slope, and erosion index. The important classes from an agricultural viewpoint are. 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.

Excerpt from Agricultural Production in West Virginia The total population increased per cent. In the decade 1900-1910. The rural population increased per cent. While the urban made a gain of 66 per cent. Fifteen counties lost in rural population while eleven counties with no large cities or towns lost in total population. There are in the state 180 magisterial districts having no incorporated towns. The population in these districts has ih creased per cent, a little more than one half that given for the rural population as defined by the census. Of these districts, 96 have increased 27 per cent. In total population while 84 districts have decreased per cent. 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.

Excerpt from Report of the West Virginia Conservation Commission The list of resources which, with certain restrictions, may be called inexhaustible, is longer. It contains much that enters into the lives of the people. The land' is inexhaustible, if men take care of it. If they do not take care of it, it will be gone sooner than almost anything else. The forests will live forever and yield their products forever, if necessary protection is thrown round them. Otherwise, they will disappear and leave nothing, so far as we can see now, to take their place. The rivers and natural waters will go on forever and supply men's needs, if men will do their part. But destruction of rivers, brooks and Springs is not only pos sible but dangerously near a certainty, unless men exert themselves to save soil and forest. The natural scenery, with the hundred things that go with it, is an everlasting resource, with a financial, intellectual, and moral value; but it too, depends upon so many things that neglect or careless ness may bring irreparable ruin. So it goes down the whole line. There is a condition attached to every good thing in the catalogue of natural wealth. In the past, people paid little or no attention to the conditions. They used, abused and wasted. The result can be seen by following the back track of civilization and see what it has left behind. Deserts, sand, rocks, salt, death and desolation where the nations of antiquity lived, tell the story of man's methods Of sub duing the earth. There seems to be a turn of the tide now. The progressive nations of Europe have taken up the work of saving their forests and soil as though existence depended upon it - and it does. The United States - the youngest richest, most intolerably improvident of them all - has taken the first side step from the downward road. Men who think, and men who do have the work in hand. Two very stubborn influences must be overcome. The first is the per sistence Of those who can see no harm in continuing to do what they have always done. Habit is hard to break away from. But patience, per severance, example, and education will finally win those who waste because they have not seen the harm in it. 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.