Agricultural Situation. 1 1 <1 



his fanning. The State should undertake large experiments in 

 these directions as well as in the developing of its forests, and in 

 other ways. 



The State should also make a thorough-going survey in detail 

 of the agricultural possibilities in every township in the State, in 

 order that we may have the local facts on which to found a scien- 

 tifically and economically sound country life. No one now knows 

 what are the real agricultural possibilities of the State, except in 

 a few localities. 



Money and energy and intelligence must be put into the New 

 York farms ; and the situation can never be retrieved, or the State 

 hold the place that it deserves until this is done. It is time that 

 all the people recognize these facts, and that the whole State be 

 roused to the necessity of a thorough-going and forward move- 

 ment in the interests of our country life. 



