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Excerpt from 28th Biennial Report of the Kentucky State Dept; Of Agriculture, Labor and Statistics; 14th Biennial Report of the Labor Dept;; 7th Biennial Report of the State Live Stock Sanitary Board; 3rd Biennial Report of the Forest Service: For the Fiscal Years 1928 and 1929 The total farm value of the principal farm crops in Kentucky, in cluding apples, peaches, and pears, was approximately in 1928 compared to in 1927, an increase of approximately or about 19 per cent, according-to the 1928 annual crop summary issued by the Louisville office of the U. S. Division of Crop and Live Stock Estimates. Increased price and production of tobacco accounts for nearly all the increased value of Kentucky's crops in 1928 over 1927, giving about increase out of the total gain of in the value of the State's chief crops. The total acreage of this State's principal field crops, not includ ing' orchards, was about one and eight tenths per cent more in 1928 than in 1927, or acres in 1928 and acres in 1927. In creased total crop value compared to 1927 was produced by Kentucky's 1928 crops of tobacco, total hay, oats, buckwheat, sorghum sirup, apples, peaches, and pears; but decreased total crop value was pro ducea by corn, wheat, rye, barley, Irish potatoes, sweet potatoes, cot ton, and grain of cowpeas and soybeans either gathered as grain or grazed off. 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.