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. 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.