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have a much larger place in the census figures of 

 New York than corn and oats and wheat. It might 

 be expected that the number of live-stock would re- 

 spond more closely, especially since the region of 

 large grain production in the United States is the 

 great Mississijipi Valley which is remote from the 

 large eastern cities to which animals are more easily 

 shipped than the crops on which they are fed. 



The live-stock intensity is higher in New York 

 than in the United States as a whole. It is 6.7 

 acres to an animal unit compared with 8.2 acres in 

 the United States in 1910 and this is only slightly be- 

 low the intensity in such an eminent producing state 

 as Illinois, and is above that in the great corn-grow- 

 ing state of Kansas. The number of acres in farms 

 to an animal unit in several of the middle western 

 states is as follows : Ohio, 6.1, Wisconsin, 5.5, Kan- 

 sas, 8.7, Illinois, 6.4, Iowa, 4.4, and Montana, 6.0 



The crops on which the rather large number of 

 live-stock in New York are chiefly dependent are 

 hay and pasture. Nearly one-half or 9,800.000 

 acres of the area in farms is devoted to those crops. 

 Nearly one-half of that area or 4,100,000 acres is in 

 hay and the remainder or nearly 5,700,000 in pas- 

 ture. "Woodland pasture is here estimated at one- 

 half value. Five-eighths of the pasture area or 60 

 per cent is of a sort that cannot be tilled. New York 

 has a large area of land that is best suited to the pro- 

 duction of a low grade of forage that can be utilized 

 )by live-stock and that would otherwise be unsuited for 

 human use. The adaptation of the State to the pro- 



