AN AGRICULTURAL SURVEY 



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an advantage that the wheat crop can compete with the western farms. 

 The straw is of little or no value on the wheat farms in the Central 

 West. 



When both the wheat and the grass seeding are considered, it is 

 likely that one of the following fertilizer applications per acre will pay, 

 or a larger application may be made. The following are approximately 

 equivalent : 



I. 200 pounds of a 2:10:5 fertilizer 

 i2O pounds of bone meal 

 20 pounds of muriate of potash 



pounds of nitrate of soda 

 3.J 135 pounds of acid phosphate 

 [20 pounds of muriate of potash. 



Miscellaneous crops. Many other crops are grown in the county. 

 Apples, barley, rye, pears, cabbages, lumber, telephone poles, posts, 

 wood, grapes, berries, 

 truck, plums, peaches, 

 maple syrup, beans, 

 nursery stock, millet, 

 sorghum, tobacco, are 

 some of a long list 

 that are grown. Few 

 of these are produced 

 in large quantities by 

 many farmers, but 

 many of them are of 

 great importance o n 

 certain, farms. Apples 

 and pears pay well 

 when cared for. It 

 would seem that these 

 should be grown much 

 more extensively. 



FIG. 176. A good young apple orchard. Apples are 

 a profitable crop in Tompkins county. They are 

 a good cash crop for dairy farms. 



THE FARM WOODLOT 1 



Area in Woods. About 13 per cent of the farm land of the county 

 is in woodlots. A considerably larger part of the county is in woods, 

 as there are some tracts of woodland that are not in farms, the owners 

 of which were not seen (Table 67). 



1 The discussion of woodlots is a summary of a thesis prepared by F. E. Rob- 

 ertson. 



