354 

 Table XII. 



RURAL NEW YORK 



Cost of Hauling Farm Products 

 TO Market 



From these figures it is evident that the cost of 

 moving farm produce on the average country road in 

 New York is about twelve to fifteen times as great as 

 on railroad. 



The mileage of public roads in the State is 80,000 

 or one and six-tenths miles to a square mile of total 

 area and one mile for each 100 acres of specified 

 crops. About a third of the State can be set aside as 

 rough wooded country with very poor road service 

 and needing very little, so that the mileage of road 

 a square mile of improved area is two and a half 

 miles. Of the total mileage, 50,000 or 62 per cent 

 is rated as improved and about 17,000 miles is macad- 

 amized. 



In 1898, New York adopted a system of highway 

 improvement under an arrangement by which the 



