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was then very little larger than in 1909. Fruit 

 moved up from fourth to third place between 1899 

 and 1909, changing with vegetables. 



In addition to the major crops, the production of 

 several minor crops has developed in localized areas. 

 The most intensively cropped portions of the State 

 are, first, a broad region lying south of the Great 

 Lakes, second a narrower section along the axis of 

 the ]\Iohawk Eiver and third the lower point of the 

 State in the Hudson Valley from Albany southAvard 

 to Newburg. The remaining regions of important 

 agricultural development are fourth, the southern 

 tier of counties ; fifth, a fringe of country ten to 

 twenty miles wide around the eastern end of Lake 

 Ontario and along the St. Lawrence Eiver and the 

 Canadian line; sixth, together with a still narrower 

 fringe along the west side of Lake Champlain and 

 tlirough the Hudson Valley above Albany. 



The region south of Lake Ontario centei ing around 

 Rochester and reaching to the Niagara Eiver is the 

 most highly developed and the most thoroughly tilled. 

 It loops southward into the Genesee Valley and fol- 

 lows the general sag in elevation along Seneca and 

 Cayuga lakes. This as a whole is the " flower of 

 the State " in agricultural development. Other re- 

 gions are as intensively developed over a small area, 

 for example, the grape belt south of Lake Erie, por- 

 tions of the Mohawk Valley, some of the territory 

 between Albany and Newburg in the Hudson Valley 

 and the east and west ends of Long Island. But 

 when both area and intensity are taken into account, 



