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The western and northern portions of the State are best adapted to 

 the cultivation of wheat, potatoes, oats and rye, while the southern 

 and eastern portions seem most favorable to corn, barley, peas, beans, 

 turnips and flax. The middle counties afford the best encourage- 

 ment to the raising of cattle. 



Of the 1,013,665 acres employed in the raising of wheat, the num- 

 ber harvested during the year is reported at 958,234, yielding an 

 aggregate of 13,391,770 bushels, exceeding by 1,438,263 bushels the 

 amount raised in 1840, and averaging a fraction under 14 bushels to 

 the acre. In the county of Monroe, the average yield is 19 h bush- 

 els ; in the county of Kings, 19 ; in each of the counties of Orleans 

 and Niagara, 18; in the county of Clinton, 11 i ; in Genesee county, 

 16 J ; in each of the counties of Cayuga, Ontario, Livingston and 

 Franklin, 16; and in each of the counties of Onondaga, Richmond, 

 Seneca, Warren and Wyoming, 15. In two of the outer wards of 

 Brooklyn, the average yield was 24 bushels to the acre ; in the town 

 of Wheatland, Monroe county, 22 bushels, and in Sweden, same 

 county, 21. 



From the 1,026,915 acres devoted to the production of oats, the 

 aggregate number of bushels harvested during the year is stated at 

 26,323,051, exceeding by 5,594,313 the quantity raised in 1840, and 

 averaging nearly 26 bushels to the acre. In the counties of Seneca 

 and Kings, the average exceeded 35 ; in Monroe and Ontario, 32 ; 

 in Onondaga, 31 ; in each of the counties of Cayuga, Dutchess and 

 Livingston, 30 ; in each of the counties of Orleans, Niagara and 

 Rensselaer, 29 ; in each of the counties of Chenango, Madison, 

 Oneida, Orange, Wayne and Yates, 28; and in each of the counties 

 of Chautauque, Clinton, Columbia, Jefferson, Queens, Richmond, 

 Suffolk and St. Lawrence, 27. 



From the 317,099 acres devoted to the production of rye, the ag- 

 gregate number of bushels harvested during the year is stated at 

 2,966,322, being 18,591 bushels less than were harvested in 1840, 

 or an average of nearly 9^ bushels to the acre. In the county of 

 Kings, the average product is reported at nearly 20 bushels to the 

 acre ; in the county of Richmond, at 14^ ; in the county of Jefferson, 

 13 J ; in each of the counties of Clinton, Orleans and St. Lawrence, 

 12 ; in Chenango, Hi ; in each of the counties of Erie, Livingston, 

 Rensselaer and Wyoming, 11 ; in each of the counties of Schenec- 



