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New York AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. 47 
To apply this knowledge in the actual management of a farm 
in the surveyed region, and by co-operative experiments with the 
farmers there. 
A consideration of the methods followed by the most careful 
farmers in various sections of the country, to aid us in making 
suggestions of value to other farmers of the county and State, 
who have like problems. 
In view of the frequent statements that this region is one of 
abandoned farms, the following figures of average value of land 
and buildings for five townships of Tompkins County may be help- 
ful. According to the census report for 1900 the average value of 
land and buildings for New York State is $39.20 per acre. The 
table shows the value per acre of five townships in Tompkins 
County. Two of these are in the southern half of the county and 
are made up largely of hill farms of the volusia silt loam type 
of soil. Many of the farms are what are popularly known as 
“abandoned” farms. If the average for the whole county was 
known, the value per acre would not unlikely exceed that for the 
State. 
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The question is often raised as to whether farm values are de- 
creasing in this part of New York State. In order to secure ac- 
curate information, the question was included in the blanks for the 
townships that were surveyed in 1907. The figures give the per- 
centage of farmers reporting in the different categories for the last’ 
five years; and they would appear to indicate that there is a steady 
rise in farm values at the present time: 
Increase. Decrease. Stationary. 
CEEOL SS ger ARP Rt la 04% 11% 25% 
(Ca TROIS NIT SRE oa 46% 26% 28% 
It will now be worth while to compare the yields of staple crops 
in these townships with yields for the State; these figures show that 
the lands are capable of good agriculture: 
