Report of Peter H. Parker. 



Hon. Fred. C. Schraub, Commissioner of Agriculture: 



Dear Sir. — As Asisistant Commissioner of Agriculture, I have 

 the honor of submitting to you my annual report of the sixth 

 division of the New York State Agricultural Department. 



This division comprises the counties of Cortland, Onondaga, 

 Madison, Chenango, Tompkins, Tioga and Broome. It is one of 

 the most important in the State, not only on account of the large 

 amount of butter and cheese manufactured, but also on account of 

 its large shipping interests. It is peculiarly adapted to this 

 branch of dairying, because of its great railroad facilities. The 

 Ontario and Western, the Delaware and Lackawanna, the Erie, 

 the Delaware and Hudson, the Lehigh Valley, and the Elmira and 

 Cortland, with their several branches, pass through nearly GOO 

 miles of its territory. On the lines of these roads are situated 150 

 shipping stations. 



MILK. 



The amount of milk shipped over these roads averages 8,000 

 cans per day, or 2,920,000 cans per year. About 7,900 cans are 

 shipped to New York; the remainder, over the Lehigh Valley road, 

 to the city of Philadelphia. The inland cities of Binghamton and 

 Syracuse consume 3,000 cans per day, and the smaller villages, 

 scattered all through the division, 4,000. This makes an average 

 of 15,000 cans per day, or 5,475,000 cans per year. Besides this 

 large amount of milk for daily consumption, there was manufac- 

 tured 14,000,000 pounds of cheese and 0,000,000 pounds of butter 

 in this division. 



From the above, we may learn the importance of the sixth 

 division as a producer of dairy products. 



The labor of controlling the quality of this large amiount of milk 

 for shipping and manufacturing purposes has been performed to 



