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INDEX 



Farm area (continued) 



organization, relation to 



powdered milk, 364 

 population, 40 

 for sale, list of, 304 

 settlement bureau, 304 

 woodlot, 120 

 tax exemption, 127 

 Farmers' institutes, 340 



movement, 86 

 Fay, Elijah and grape grow- 

 ing, 180 

 Fay, Lincoln, grape nursery, 



193 

 Fayette Agricultural School, 



83 

 Female suftrage among In- 

 dians, 58 

 Fertilizer inspection, 302 



manufacture, 285 

 Fertilizing muck soil, 169 

 Feudal tenure. 70 

 Finger Lakes, 10, 31 

 and local storms, 53 

 region, 25 

 soils, 99 

 and rye. 158 

 Fire patrol area, 120 



regulations in forests, 125 

 protection of forests, 125 

 First bottom soils. 114 

 Fish, 128 



culture. 130 

 and game division, 309 

 hatcheries, 130 

 Fisheries, shell, 131 

 Floods. 54 



Flour, early production, 75 

 Flower City, Rochester, 75 

 Flowers, production, 194 

 Food inspection, 308 

 Food and markets division, 

 258, 304 

 products bureau, 308 

 production by different ani- 

 mals, 202 

 values per acre of crop, 163 

 waste of, 269 

 Forage crops, 142 

 Forest area, 77 

 areas, 120 

 fire protection. 125 

 management, 123 

 nurseries. 127 

 policy of state, 124, 357 



Forest area (^continued) 



regulations, private, 127 



types, 122 

 Forestry, instruction in, 127 



state college of, 332 



and the state constitution. 

 124 

 Fort Orange, 56 

 Foster. William. Introduced 



Merino sheep, 233 

 Fredonia, site of first grange, 



87 

 French settlers, 61, 63 

 Frost, danger of, 49 



free period. 47 



and fruit production, 175 

 Fruit belt, 174 



dried. 290 



evaporation. 273 



packing houses, 178 



in Hudson Valley, 110 



soils for, 99, 103 

 Fruits, 172 



changes in area, 78 



G 



Game, 128 



farms. 129 

 Gas. natural, 133 

 Geese, production of. 238 

 Genesee, reservoir site, 33 



river. 32 



road, 66 



soils. 115 



for celery, 170 



tract. 72 



valley and wheat, 156 



Geneva agricultural experi- 

 ment station, 85, 103, 

 336 

 Geological structure. 14 

 Geology of New York a land- 

 mark. 17 

 German Sc-ttlers, 62 

 Ginseng, 197 



Glacial influence on agricul- 

 ture and travel, 29 

 lake soils. 102 

 lakes. 25 



soil formation. 90 

 till soils. 98 

 Glacier, continental, 24 

 Glass house farms, 195 



