A vastly larger proportion of land was utilized a hundred years ago for agriculture. I've seen photographs from the 1910s of my hometown which are unrecognizab

A vastly larger proportion of land was utilized a hundred years ago for agriculture. I've seen photographs from the 1910s of my hometown which are unrecognizable, except for the buildings, because most of the portions of the hillsides and river intervale pieces were cleared and used for growing either corn or grazing sheep and cattle. Now all of that area has grown up into forest.