CHAPTER V 



AGRICULTURAL INDUSTRIES, PLANTS AND CROPS 

 OF NEW YORK 



The crops produced by New York are exceedingly 

 varied. The variety in soils, in climate and in 

 market conditions encourage diversity in crop as well 

 as animal products. The State is exceeded in this 

 variety of crops only by California, which is much 

 larger in area, in climatic reach and in range of ele- 

 vation and topography. The range in these three 

 primary factors produces an exceedingly complex 

 pattern to which farm practice is continually adjust- 

 ing itself and the process will doubtless continue for 

 many years to come. 



In value of all farm crops, the State ranks eighth. 

 New York produces 3.8 per cent of the total value of 

 all crops grown in the United States, while her pro- 

 portion of the total acreage in crops is 2.7. From 

 this it appears that the intensity of her production is 

 above the average. This amounts to an average value 

 of $25 an acre of crops to be compared with slightly 

 less than $18 for the entire country as valued in 

 1909. The rank in acre value of crops is thirteenth. 

 In value of crops to a farm New York is sixteenth 

 with the sum of $950, the average for the country 

 being $860, or nearly $100 less. (See Figs. 18, 19.) 



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