Download or read book Report of the Secretary of Agriculture, 1947 (Classic Reprint) written by United States Department Of Agriculture and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-30 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Report of the Secretary of Agriculture, 1947 We can gage the market need by comparing agriculture's position in the prewar years 1935 - 89 with its position today. Before the war, in a period mainly of depression, United States civilians consumed 97 percent of the available food supply; exports absorbed the remaining 3 percent. In the war years (1941 - 45) United States civilians con sumed only 84 percent of the supply, though food consumption per capita increased as also did the population. 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.