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(Since dairy products are directly dependent on agricultural 

 conditions, they are also included in this tabulation.) 



In spite, however, of its preeminence among the States in the 

 production of the crops just named, experts tell us that the average 

 yield per acre throughout the State is probably less than half what 



FIG. 58. Map of New York State, showing the crops grown in various 

 areas. (Courtesy of Prof. E. O. Fippin, of Cornell University.) 



it should be or might be if more intelligence were used by the aver- 

 age farmer. The following quotation from an investigation made 

 among 1303 of the farmers in the vicinity of Cornell University, 

 near the center of the State of New York, shows in a striking way 



