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strictly urban according to the method of distinction 

 of the census, and to that proportion may be added 

 fairly a further 10 per cent to cover persons living 

 in towns and village under two thousand five hundred 

 population. This reveals about 80 per cent or four- 

 fifths of the population as urban and therefore en- 

 gaged in other than agricultural pursuits and entirely 

 dependent on the products of the farms. 



The population of New York State as a whole is 

 wealthy. The region is the center of wealth of the 

 continent. Added to this is the tremendous transient 

 population of business and pleasure, and of whose 

 presence the immense hotel capacity of the larger 

 cities is evidence. These are the big facts with ref- 

 erence to the consumption capacity of the population 

 within convenient reach of the farmer located in New 

 York, and this proximity should constitute a natural 

 subsidy to him in marketing farm produce. 



In addition to the population that may be said to 

 be at the door of the New York farmer, there is the 

 further large mass that may more readily l)e reached 

 by him than by the farmers of any other part of the 

 country, — the foreign centers of population reached 

 directly by ships that clear from the large maritime 

 cities within this five hundred mile zone. All Eu- 

 rope is at his door as a result of modern mean-i of 

 transportation and the preservation of perishable 

 farm products. 



New York, the chief American port and one of 

 the three largest shipping ports in the world, is a 

 little over thirty-five hundred miles from Liverpool 



