Download or read book Interstate Migration, Vol. 10 written by United States Congress and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-13 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Interstate Migration, Vol. 10: Hearings Before the Select Committee to Investigate the Interstate Migration of Destitute Citizens, House of Representatives, Seventy-Sixth Congress, Third Session; Washington Hearings, December 11, 1940, and February 26, 1941 I think that another factor, of course, which you gentlemen have considered is the rapid mechanization in agricultural production which started with the introduction of the gasoline engine, tractors, trucks, and so forth, getting its real impetus after the last war, which probably has taken some thirty-five million acres of land that used to grow feed for horses and mules and turned it over to the oil fields, as a matter of fact. And in more recent years the development of mechanized farm equipment which fits every size of farm. 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.