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book of the United States Department of Agriculture, the oat crop was 

 third in farm value in New York State. Hay ranked first, with a farm 

 value of $86,958,000; potatoes second, with a value of $24,975,000; and 

 oats third, with a value of $19,709,000. Fcr the year 191 1, New York 

 ranked twelfth in total acreage planted with oats, ninth in total yield, and 

 nineteenth in average yield per acre. The average yield per acre was 

 29.5 bushels. For the years 1900 to 1909, also, New York ranked nine- 

 teenth in average yield per acre, which was 31.3 bushels. This yield is 



Fig. 104. — Map of New York State, showing average yields of oats for 19OQ in the 



different counties 



low and effort should be made to increase it. The average yield for each 

 county in the State in 1909 is shown in Fig. 104. These yields were 

 obtained from the report of the Thirteenth Census of the United States. 



Oats are valuable to farmers because they fit in well with the many 

 systems of crop rotation used in this State. Oats arc also much used as a 

 nurse crop when land is to be seeded to grass; the value of such a crop is 

 doubtful, however, for many nurse crops are robber crops. 



Since oats form one of the most valuable field crops of the State it is 



