Excerpt from Year Book of the Ayrshire Breeders, 1908: Containing the Proceedings of the Annual Meeting, Official Milk and Butter Records, and General Information About Ayrshires and the Ayrshire Breeders' Association The opening of the great corn belt of the Central Western States and the Mississippi Valley, and the wheat regions of Kansas, Nebraska, Minnesota and the Dakotas, had then just begun; and the era of low price western lands, cheap transportation to the seaboard, of cereals, live stock and all the products of that vast empire of fertile soil, was then well under way. 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.