Excerpt from North Carolina Agricultural Statistics, 1964, Vol. 113 Crop and livestock reporting is a service rendered to farmers and others in our State by the U. S. Department of Agriculture in cooperation with the North Carolina Department of Agriculture. The collection and dissemination of agricultural statistics is the oldest activity of the United States Department of Agriculture, having had its start in 1863 during the Civil War. Recognizing the many advantages of'a joint relationship between the State and Federal Governments in the development of agricultural statistics, North Carolina, in 1919, entered into a cooperative agreement with the U. S. Department of Agriculture to provide detailed agri cultural statistics, which are so vital to the economy of our State. The agreement resulted in the creation Of the crops Statistics Division of the North Carolina Department of Agriculture, which is popularly known-as the North Carolina Crop Reporting 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.