Excerpt from Report of the Porto Rico Agricultural Experiment Station, 1918 The war has brought the people of Porto Rico to a realization of the needs of the island in improved methods and increased produc tion in agriculture. The fear of isolation by submarine activities emphasized the importance of increasing food production by plant ing vacant lands and by interplanting food crops with the staple crops of the island. Importation of foodstuffs had become so gen eral and their home production so limited that the threatened possi bility of being cut off from sources of food supply disclosed the fact that a land of perpetual summer and a continuous growing sea son might be brought to face the problem of want and possibly star vation. This made the people of the island willing not only to plant and cultivate more land, but to seek new crops and to study the latest methods of improving yields and. Increasing profits. Through it all the results of the station experiments have been studied and applied to a greater extent than ever before. Greater progress has been made in agriculture than in any other year of the island's history. Crops heretofore neglected have been taken up, methods formerly ignored have been applied, and unused lands and idle people have been employed in production to a greater extent than ever before. 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.