Excerpt from Agricultural Research in New Hampshire: Annual Report of the Director of the Agricultural Experiment Station for the Year Ending June 30, 1946 During the fiscal year ending June 30, 1945, the war clouds were finally riven by the capitulation of Japan. This country, as the second Of the last two Axis powers to succumb, signed her articles of surrender, September 2, 1945. This second World War, was the costliest and most destructive Of all time. Of this there can be no question. The cost Of the war was put at for the world in armament and military materials with an added for civilian property damage. These estimates based on surveys made and compiled by James H. Brady and the American University do not include the money spent and the damage done incident to hostilities in China, because none of the figures for that country were available. The dead in World War II, including both military and civilian, was placed at according to a compilation released by the Vati can in November; the same report placed the wounded at Several international agencies had contributed to this resume. 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.