cance. The horticultural survey work finally culmi- 

 nated in the excellent apple-orchard surveys of 

 Wayne and Orleans Counties, by G. F. Warren, under 

 the direction of Professor Craig (Bulletins 226 and 

 229, 1905). I think it not too much to say that these 

 surveys marked a departure in this kind of work, 

 substituting the statistical method for previous 

 means. Orchard after orchard was studied in person 

 by Warren, and the financial and farm-management 

 phases of the situation were reported with care ; and 

 in the Wayne survey the horticultural condition was 

 articulated as far as possible with the geological 

 horizon. 



Other surveys of this general character have 

 been made, and one of them has been published, 1910, 

 as an ''Apple Orchard Survey of Niagara County," 

 under the direction of Professor Craig; and a corres- 

 pondence survey, under direction of Professor War- 

 ren, was published in 1909 as ''The Income of 178 

 New York Farms." 



The results of the statistical work in Wayne and 

 Orleans Counties were so striking that it was now 

 proposed to apply the method to farming in general 

 rather than to a single crop or product. In 1906, un- 

 der Professor Hunt's immediate direction, a survey 

 was planned of Tompkins County, the seat of the New 

 York State College of Agriculture. It was found at 



