Excerpt from Annual Report of the Commissioner of Patents, for the Year 1848 There 1s, probably, no country in the world whose agricultural industry exhibits a more rapid and steady progress than that or the United States. Its population is rapidly augmenting by natu ral increase and immigration, and every year large quantities of new land are reclaimed from the wilderness and subjected to cul tivation. The number of cultivators and the breadth of soil are fast increasing with each succeeding year; and as Providence yet Spares our favored country from the visitations of dearth arid famine, which have afflicted less favored countries, the amount of agricultural pro ducts must necessarily increase in equal proportion. 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.