Excerpt from Department of Agriculture and Immigration of Virginia: Annual Report, 1906 H on. G. W. Koiner, Commissioner of Agriculture and Immigration. Sir, - During the past year the fertilizer and miscellaneous work of this Department has largely increased. The increase has been so great that another assistant chemist became necessary, and Mr. H. L. Davidson, of Blacksburg, was gotten in February to fill the position. Mr. Davidson has the degree of Bachelor of Science and Master of Science of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute, and was assistant and instructor in the same institution for about three years and a half. 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.