our own local Lancaster County ancestors. �II. Our County's Introduction Of Intensive Agriculture Into The United States FROM the very beginning of permanent settlement in Lancaster County intensive agriculture was entered upon, on a large scale. The first settlers' application for land, was for

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Strasburg township, Lancaster county, Pa., added the following interesting recollec- tions of primitive conditions prevailing when he was a boy on a farm. The extract from Mr. Bishop's letter has value in that it reveals the vast improvements that have been made in agricultural implements within the memory

of agriculture. The dairy industry in the counties near to Philadelphia has continued to the present day, even in the face of strong com- petition from sections that were thought to have superior natural advantages of production. The first settlers of Lancaster county were too far removed from