324 COMPARISON OF THE SOILS 



12. The average for tlic whole district, therefore, is only 8 I)iishels per acre. It is proper 

 to state, that this low average may not be independent of causes connected with the capa- 

 city of the soil to produce wheat. It is well known that the wheat fly has committed more 

 extensive ravages in this than in the western part of the State ; still, it is not to be supposed 

 that to the fly alone is to be attributed the small average. The crop is more liable to other 

 accidents, to rust, and shrinkage, than in the western counties ; accidents depending in a 

 great measure on the adaptedness of this soil to this crop. 



The territory forming the Taconic district lies upon the eastern side of the Hudson river. 

 If we now extend our observations to the district which has been called the Hudson and 

 JNIohawk district, we shall embrace a large extent of country differing but little from the 

 preceding. 



Albanv county raised 44.149 bushels upon 61 12 acres, which gives an average of 7i bushels per acre. 

 Fulton county raised 17,1 18 bushels upon 1618 acres, thus giving an average of 1 li bushels per acre. 

 Rockland county raised 1705 bushels upon 194 acres, the average of which is 9 bushels per acre. 

 Saratoga countv raised 104,660 busTiels upon 9745 acres, the average of which is 10 bushels. 

 Schenectady county raised 19,754 bushels upon 1918 acres, whose averatre is lOj bushels. 



The average of these counties, mostly embraced in the Hudson and Mohawk district, is 

 a little over 9f bushels. Albany county raises only a small crop of wheat ; the lands 

 within 10 or 12 miles of Albany city being cultivated for the more marketable crops, such 

 as hay, corn, oats, and garden vegetables. 



If Oneida and Herkimer counties were added to the forcging calculations, the average 

 for the wlieat crop would be increased, as the average for tliese two counties together is 

 13|^ busliels per acre. The reason why these counties are not added, is that their territories 

 extend into the Wheat district proper, being underlaid by the shales of the Clinton group, 

 and our data do not permit us to determine upon what parts of these counties the greatest 

 number of acres of wheat were raised. 



The wheat crop of the western and central counties may now pass imder our exami- 

 nation. 



Cayuga county, in which was raised, in 1845, 652,896 bushels. The number of acres upon which 



this amount of wheat was harvested was 41,783, which gives an average of 16 bushels per acre. 

 Erie county raised 251,784 bushels upon 20,433 acres, which is an average of only 12 bushels per acre. 

 Genesee county raised 695,107 bushels upon 42,960 acres, which is an average of 16i bushels per acre. 

 Livintrston county raised 821,702 bushels upon 52,047 acres, averaging 16 bushels. 

 Madison county raised 190,361 bushels upon 13,477 acres, the average of 14 bushels per acre. 

 Monroe county raised 1,338,585 upon 68,382 acres, making an average of 19i bushels per acre. 

 Niagara county raised 713,318 bushels upon 39,521 acres, equalling 18 bushels per acre. 

 Onondaq-a county raised 918,616 bushels upon 57,924 acres, giving 16 bushels per acre. 

 Orleans county raised 692,127 bushels upon 38,731 acres, virhich gives an average of 18 bushels. 

 Seneca county raised 483,773 upon 32,698 acres, the average of which is 15 bushels per acre. 

 Wayne county raised 587,817 bushels upon 41,041 acres, giving an average of 14i bushel?. 

 Wyoming county raised 331,1 1 1 upon 22,564 acres, sfivin? an averatre of 15 bushels per acre. 



