New York AcricuLturaL ExperiMENT STATION. 15 
AFTERNOON PROGRAM. 
The address of Speaker of the House, Hon. Sherman Moreland, 
was necessarily omitted, owing to his absence, but the other speakers 
were as given on the program. The remarks of Messrs. Godfrey 
and Woodward were quite informal, and though valuable and en- 
tertaining, especially the reminiscences by Mr. Woodward, are not 
capable of reproduction in print in a way to do them justice. 
The papers by Mr. Flanders, Dr. Thompson and Dr. Bailey fol- 
low in full: 
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NEW YORK STATE’S POSITION IN AGRICULTURE. 
G. L. FLANDERS. 
I anticipate that a very important question for the consideration 
of those interested in agricultural matters in this State to-day is 
the question of the relation of the agricultural productions of the 
- State of New York to the agricultural productions of the United 
States, and this same relation may be carried a step further as one 
of interest by making a statement as to the relativity of the agri- 
cultural productions of the United States to the agricultural pro- 
ductions of the rest of the world. 
The Hon. O. P. Austin not long since in an address said: “ But 
the real cause for anxiety in determining the rivalry of these coun- 
tries is as to the growth of their producing power.” To determine 
whether or not these countries are increasing their production with 
such rapidity as to indicate that they may take the markets of the 
world from the United States, he compared the wheat crop of 1901 
with that of 1892, showing that during the ten year period Australia 
had increased her production of wheat 20,000,000 bushels, Argentina 
36,000,000, Canada 43,000,000, India 39,000,000, Russia 53,000,000, 
United States 232,000,000; that of the United States being more 
than the increased production in Australia, Argentina, Canada, 
India and Russia combined. In this, he thought the response was 
easily found in the fact that the United States produces three- 
fourths of the world’s corn, three-fourths of its cotton, 40 per ct. 
of the provisions entering into international commerce and more 
than 4o per ct. of the exported wheat. 
