Excerpt from North Carolina Agricultural Statistics, Vol. 86: 1944 Annual Issue Notwithstanding difficulties which at times seemed insurmountable, crop pro duction in the United States in 1944 about equalled the all-time record set in 1942. Yields per, acre averaged higher than in any other year except 1942. The acreage harvested has been larger only from 1929 through 1932. -in most of the country, growing conditions were much less tav orable than in 1942 and there were fewer skilled men on the farms. Only power equipment and long hours of labor saved the situation. 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.