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in northwestern Onondaga County, and second in 

 tlie Susquehanna-Chemung Kiver valleys from 

 Binghamton to west of Elmira. These regions had a 

 total acreage in 1909 of 4,109 acres. Since that date 

 the production has decreased considerably especially 

 in the southern district. This is merely part of a 

 decrease in the acreage of the crop that has been go- 

 ing on for forty years. It was formerly grown much 

 more widely than at present and many counties 

 through the lower elevations in the State reported an 

 appreciable acreage in earlier years. Dutchess 

 County still produced thirty-one acres in 1909. 

 Tobacco seems to have been gro\m by the Indians. 

 It became a commercial crop northwest of Syracuse 

 about 1845. (See Figs. 22, 25.) 



The soils upon which tobacco is produced are the 

 gravelly, sandy, fine sandy loam and silt types of the 

 Dunkirk series in the Syracuse district, and on the 

 corresponding textures of the Chenango series in 

 the Elmira section. The yield is from 800 to 1200 

 pounds to the acre. The production of the crop in 

 New York State has never reached the high state of 

 development that has been attained in other tobacco- 

 producing centers, such as the Sumatra wrapper 

 region near Quincey, Florida, and in the middle 

 Connecticut Valley, or the cigar binder regions of 

 Miami County, Ohio, and Janesville, Wisconsin. 



Ginseng is grown in small areas in several regions, 

 particularly through the middle of the State south 

 of Syracuse. The most important localities are at 

 Eose Hill and Scott, between Skaneateles and 



