DEVELOPMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



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199,840, Eggs produced in St. Lawrence Co. doz. 1,073,385 



217,826, " " " Steuben Co. " i»037, 509 



Acres. Bushels. 



Irish potatoes, State 340,536 33,644,807 



County, ^ 3,796 493^078 



Orchard products value, State $8,409,794 



County 17', 248 



Market garden products sold. State value 4,211,642 



Co. 118,293 

 Amount of cord-wood cut. 



State, 4.187,942. County, 34,228. 



Value of fruit products sold. 



State, $8,759,901. County, 1127,960. 



The results of the figures of the census of 1880, are these: 

 The area of farms in the State averages over acres, 73 



" " " " " " County " " " 45 



measured by the acres of improved lands. 



Less than one-hundredth of all the improved lands in the State lie in 

 Suffolk County, yet the county has nearly one seventieth in number of all 

 the farms, showing thereby a more general distribution of land among the 

 masses of people. Suffolk County contains about one-fortieth part of all 

 the unimproved lands in the State, ?nd a fraction over that proportion ol all 

 the woodlands. The farms of this county in value aggregate over one 

 sixty-second part of the whole State valuation. 



Suffolk County owns over one-eightieth part of the farm tools and ma- 

 chinery in the State, and over one-eightieth in value of all live stock in the 

 State. Suffolk County purchased over one-tenth of all the fertilizers pur- 

 chased in the State. The aggregate farm production of the county was 

 over one-eightieth of all produced in the State. This county raised over 

 one-fortieth of all the corn raised in the State, nearly one-hundreth part of 

 all the oats; over one-sixtieth of all the rye, and over one sixty-fourth of 

 all the wheat. Suffolk County mowed less than one-hundred and fortieth 

 of all the acres mown in the Statn. It produced nearly the one-hundred and 

 thirty-first of all the hay crop cut. The State average per acre was a little 

 over one and one-tenth tons, and the county average per acre a little over 

 one and two-tenths tons. Suffolk County produced nearly one-thirty-fifth 

 of all the eggs in the State, from less than one-fortieth of all the poultry, rank- 

 ing the seventh in product of eggs, and holding in number of poultry by 

 over twenty thousand less than any of the six counties which produced more 

 eggs. In acreage Suffolk County had of potatoes a fraction less than one- 

 ninetieth contained in the State, and produced therefrom a fraction over one- 

 seventieth of all the bushels produced. In value of orchard product the 

 county, compared with the State, fails to come up to anything which mi"-ht 

 in former results have been reported. 



In value of market garden products sold, the county sales were over one 

 thirty-fifth of all sales made in the State. Suffolk County cut less than the 

 one-hundred and twenty-second part of all the wood cut in cords in the 

 State, but sold in products of the forest over one-seventieth of all sold in the 

 State. 



