Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Twelfth Annual Report of the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture, 1906
Sir: In compliance with the requirements of the Act of Assembly, creating a Department of Agriculture of Pennsylvania, I have the honor to submit my report of said Department for the year 1906.
The past year has marked much advance in the agriculture of Pennsylvania. The swing toward the West of the pendulum of agricultural progress is slacking and a new era appears to be setting in for the farms and farmers of the Eastern states.
There was a time when this was the leading farming state of the Union, a time When civilization was but feeling its way beyond the Allegheny Mountains. As Ohio and, later, the other states of Ithe Ohio, Mississippi and Missouri valleys developed, the center of the agricultural industry moved steadily westward. The Virgin.
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