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greatly facilitated, and the dairy business become a 

 profitable agricultural operation in the state. 



3. Truck gardening. As the mines, and wells of 

 oil and gas are developed throughout the state, more 

 and more laborers leave the farm and become consum- 

 ers of farm products rather than producers. In the 

 many mining towns which have sprung up in all parts 

 of West Virginia are thousands of laborers who do 

 not even have a kitchen garden. The homes of these 

 men must be supplied with the vegetables and prod- 

 ucts of the farm. If West Virginia farms and gar- 

 dens do not furnish these, those of other states will. 

 There are many fertile valleys and fields near these 

 industrial centers that could produce far more than 

 they now do, toward supplying the demand for food 

 products. 



Practical Exercises 



Students of other states using this book should write 

 similar paragraphs upon the agricultural outlook of 

 their own state, using this lesson on West Virginia as a 

 type. 



