New York AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. 49 
son with other sections of the State, Tompkins County is very likely 
up to the average. Irom very accurate information at hand it 
would seem that in this section general farming may be very profit- 
able if at least one farm animal is kept for each six acres of land. 
By one farm animal is meant a full-grown horse or cow, this being 
the unit. Five calves, swine, or sheep are considered a unit, or two 
colts or heifers. The following figures show the number of acres 
per animal in the five townships surveyed: 
MIG SPs ae es STE 6.08 acres per animal 
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THE OUTLOOK FOR THE HILLS AND REMOTE LANDS. 
Wherever farming is not now profitable, a special effort should 
be made to readjust it to the conditions of climate, soil topography, 
markets and the like. New York is admirably adapted to trees and 
grass. Anyone who has traveled much even in the Northern States 
will have noticed the superior quality of the tree growth and the 
grass cover in our region. Of course, our unprogressive areas, 
whether on hills or plains, present very many conditions and they 
are adapted to. many kinds of agriculture; but in the particular type 
of hill land and remote land which is now most in the public mind 
I look for the development of three strong forms of farming: 
I. Fruit growing for export. We have developed great skill in 
the methods of caring for orchards on the relatively level lands 
of the special fruit sections, but we have given very little attention 
to the growing of first quality apples in the higher hill regions. 
In such regions we cannot practice the type of clean tillage that we 
advise for other lands. Some relatively simple and inexpensive type 
of farm management must be applied to them. There is every 
reason to think that vast areas in New York State that are now 
practically unknown to fruit may grow a grade of apples that would 
be in great demand in the foreign trade. 
2. A revival of the animal industries and the extension of dairy- 
ing. The dairy interest is now the leading special agricultural in- 
dustry in New York. With the continued development of great 
city markets the dairy industry must°grow. Many of our hill and 
outlying lands are no doubt admirably adapted to pasturage and 
