Excerpt from Publications on Chinese Agriculture Prior to 1949 Despite the present efforts to industrialize China, it is generally believed that agriculture will remain the mainstay of the country's economy for some time to come. The National Agricultural Library's Chinese collection contains publications which have been received for nearly a century and is one of the largest of its kind in the world. 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.