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Table V. Production of Potatoes, Corn, 

 Wheat and Buckwheat in New York 



Yield of 



drv matter, 

 lbs. 



Yield of 



Ijroteiu, 



lbs. 



Nitrogen 



free extract, 



lbs. 



Potatoes, 100 bu. 



Corn, 36 bu 



Wheat, 20 bu. . . 

 Buckwheat, 20 bu. 



1260 



1950 



1080 



845 



126 



220 



142 



96 



1030 



1500 



870 



625 



New York has about 10 per cent of the acreage of 

 potatoes and produces from 8 to 12 per cent of the 

 crop grown in the United States. 



By far the most important region of production of 

 potatoes is .the middle western part of the State 

 from Lake Ontario at Rochester southward to the 

 State line, and from Syracuse to the western divide 

 of the Genesee Eiver. The acreage thins out on 

 either side of this region. Eastern Long Island is 

 second in importance, a third and growing section 

 being northern New York on the northeast flank of 

 the Adirondacks. The upper part of the eastern 

 Hudson Valley still retains a considerable acreage 

 but it has fallen from its former large acreage. 



The most marked change in the last fifty years 

 has been the large increase in acreage in the western 

 New York potato belt. In all the counties there has 

 been an expansion of one-third to an entire doubling 

 of the area. However, since 1905, there appears to 

 be some diminution of the acreage in this territory 

 and therefore in the State. The eastern counties 



