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Report of Farmers' Ij^stitutes 



Rank 

 1 

 2 

 3 

 4 

 5 

 6 

 7 

 8 



State 



Illinois . . 



Iowa 



Texas 



Ohio 



Georgia . 

 Missouri . 

 Kansas . . 

 New York 



Acreage 

 of crops 

 20.273,916 

 20. 374. 925 

 18,389,092 

 11,431.610 



9. 662, 383 

 14.335,588 

 19,900. 750 



8.387,731 



Value of crops 

 reported by 

 acres 



$362,464,951 

 304. 491. 033 

 287. 295. 880 

 215.250.975 

 214,463,237 

 204,286,256 

 211.485.723 

 174. 475. 689 



Value of all 

 crops 

 $372, 270, 470 

 314.666.298 

 298. 133, 466 

 230,337,981 

 226. 595. 436 

 220. 663. 724 

 214.859.597 

 209,168,236 



9 Indiana 



11,331,395 193,395,392 204.209,812 



From the above figures may be found that New York stands 

 second in the value of product per acre of such crops as are reported 

 by acreSj the states ranking as follows: 



Value of 

 prod DC t 

 Ramie State per acre Rank 



1 Georgia $22 20 6 



2 New York 20 SO 7 



3 Ohio 18 83 8 



4 Illinois 17 88 9 



5 Indiana 17 07 



Value of 



product 



State per acre 



Texas $15 62 



Iowa 14 94 



Missouri 14 25 



Kansas 10 63 



The above presents a correct statement as to ISTew York's agri- 

 cultural conditions. I have tried to make it plain that many of 

 the low-priced lands, over which so much sentiment has been and is 

 being wasted, are not an important factor in present-day agricul- 

 ture — that tliese low-priced lands are not cheap lands. The real 

 measure of land value is its productive power. We have not begun 

 to touch the capacity of our real agricultural lands. As fast as 

 compensation warrants — and no faster — will their products 

 increase. 



In 1910, I was invited to a so-called conference of the Board 

 of Trade of this city. Mr. Brown, then president of the New 

 York Central Railroad, delivered an address on our danger from 

 a lack of production. Bv a chart he showed that bv 1913 we 

 should have absolutely nothing to export, and according to the 

 figures displayed we should soon not be able to feed our own people, 

 unless the ignorant, thoughtless farmers took lessons from mighty 

 men of valor like himself, whose farming is purely academic. Yet, 

 behold, 1913 is past, our own people have had abundance, and the 

 products of our fruitful fields have gone to feed the armies of the 

 Old World. The year past has witnessed the greatest wheat crop 

 ever known, and all without a ripple of excitement or of apparent 



