PREMIUM CROPS. 



351 



shoiilil ihcn be able to (loieniiiiic ilie rclalive power of ilit- soils in the State, and practi- 

 cally their value or atlapledness to the dillerent kinds of husbandry. Observation ought 

 also to be directed to the capacit_v, as well as adaptcdness of position to the dillerent crops 

 in the same district; inasmuch as there is but little probability that an entire district is 

 fitted exclusively to one or two kinds of grain. Oats seem to possess an apliiudc to ac- 

 commodate themselves to a wide range of latitude. We are not yet in possession of a 

 sufficient number of facts to be able to judge of the quantity which our lands ought, under 

 proper cultivation, to yield. 



TABLE OF STATE AND COUNTY PREMIUM CROPS FOR IS IP; 



EMBRACING ALSO OTHER LARGE CROPS NOT ENTERED FOR PREMIUMS, WITH THE EXPENSE OF CL'LTlVvVTlON, 



AND VALUE OK LANDS PER ACRE. 



TABLE SHOWING THE TIiMES OF SOWINtJ AND REAPING -IN MONROE COUNTY. 



XII. THE POWER WHICH SOILS POSSESS OF ABSORBING AND RETAINING 



WATER. 



Our account of the New-York soils would be incomplete, if we passed over in silence 

 these important qualities, which all soils j)ossess in a greater or less degree. The de- 

 termination of this power can be satisfactorily ascertained only by an extensive series of 



