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Excerpt from The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1961, Vol. 27 In proof of the above statement, I wish to submit briey some of the statistics gathered at the Census of 1910 and compare them with those gathered at the Census of 1900. The increase in acreage of land in farms during the decade amounted to only per cent. The increase averaged approximately acres per year. On the other hand, the increase during the thirty years before 1900 was almost 15, acres per year. This statement in itself is suficient evidence of the fact that the high tide was reached before the close of the last century, and that the expansion since 1900 has been and doubtless will continue to be comparatively small. 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.