Excerpt from Papers Presented at a Conference on Illinois Agricultural Policy, January 26 and 27, 1922 The present condition of depression in agriculture, whatever the immediate causes of that depression, enforces upon our attention two important problems. One is the early relief from the prevalent economic pressure under which the farmers are living. The other is the factors at work to influence and give direction and character to American agriculture in the next quarter of a century. While the present depression is, speaking in a general way, a result of the war, there are reasons for thinking that it is part of a readjustment, not only of temporary conditions, but of conditions which in character are more permanent. In other words, American agriculture probably reached a point within the past decade at which it was to assume a difierent character from what it had in the past generation. There is ground for the belief that much of our cultivated land under prevalent prae. 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.