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duction of hay, the capacity to grow corn for silage 

 for winter feeding, and enough grain to make at least 

 a beginning on the concentrate problem, together with 

 the heavy demand for dairy products by the adjacent 

 large cities, give the key to the prominence of live- 

 stock. 



The pastures are notably good, due to the high 

 summer rainfall. This is reflected in the cost of 

 pasture an animal. G. F. Warren has collected 

 figures showing that N"ew York has the cheapest pas- 

 ture land of the United States with the exception 

 of the South. In all those regions where pasture 

 land is abundant, the middle and southern parts of 

 the State, the cost for pasture ranges from fifty cents 

 to one dollar a month to an animal unit. The com- 

 parative figures as collected by Warren in 1910 are 

 as follows: 



Table VII. — Cost of Pasture 



Cost of pasture 

 a month 



New York $0.50 



North Atlantic States 0.90 



Corn Belt 1.35 



Middle West outside of the Corn Belt 1.05 



Blue Grass region 1.55 



Southern States 0.30 



Arid region 0.50 



Western irrigated or moist land 0.65 



Of the concentrated feeds used, a large part is 

 purchased from outside the State. In the exclu- 

 sively dairy region of Delaware County, a careful 

 record on one hundred and fifty-seven representative 



