to raise their own stock. These most successful farmers buy the most 

 grain and raise their own stock. The amount of capital, machinery, 

 and the number of horses, all have a direct relationship to profits. The 

 surveys show why some farms are successful and why others are not. 



3. They furnish the results of hundreds of experiments more 

 cheaply than the College can conduct one. They show the relative 

 productiveness of the various types of soils, the efficiency of different 

 rotation systems, the comparative production of different breeds of 

 dairy cattle, the effect of topography on crop production, and many 

 other relationships, not in one instance under one set of conditions but 

 on hundreds of farms and under a great variety of conditions. 



Soil surveys. The intelligent development of farm land must take 

 into account the character of the soil and is determined by it. The soil 

 survey, by determining the character of soils and their relation to 

 crops and management on the one hand, outlines the problems confront- 

 ing the farmer, and, on the other hand, presents them to the Experiment 

 Stations for their solution in a manner which makes for most rapid 

 progress. With the large number of farms which are offered for sale or 

 exchange in New York State, the soil survey is the only reliable and 

 thorough method by which the true values of such farms may be com- 

 pared and studied. 



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