168 RURAL NEW YORK 



County. Like beans and peas, it follows the calcar- 

 eous soils Init is rather less sensitive to a deficiency 

 in lime. IMoist climate and a nitrogen rich soil favor 

 its growth as they do all vegetables. For largest 

 yield it inclines toward the swampy soils such as the 

 Clyde and muck but the greater part of the acreage 

 is on upland soils of the Ontario series. The crop 

 is stored and widely shipped. Near Syracuse a con- 

 siderable amount of kraut is made. The area occu- 

 pied by cabbage is about 35,000 acres which puts 

 the State in the lead by far, with a fourth of the 

 total crop in the country. The yield is from 8 to 

 13 tons but some farms exceed 20. Cabbage is a 

 good cleaning crop for the land by reason of thorough 

 tillage, and by many farmers is used to combat 

 quack-grass. 



Sweet corn for direct sale and for canning occu- 

 pies about 24,000 acres in the canning-crops region 

 south of the Great Lakes, and also in the Hudson 

 Valley from which latter section it is shipped to New 

 York as green corn. Its distribution is much the 

 same as green peas. 



Tomatoes are largely associated with sweet corn and 

 green peas. They thrive on strong fertile soils and 

 seem to succeed best in the region of low summer 

 rainfall, closely fringing the edge of Lake Ontario and 

 the south shore of Lake Erie. It is possible that the 

 larger amount of sunshine and the dry atmosphere 

 that prevails in this region promotes ripening and 

 reduces susceptibility to disease of the fruit. The 



