32 1 COMPARISON OF THE SOILS 



12. The average for the whole district, therefore, is only 8 hushels per acre. It is proper 

 to state, tliat this low average may not be independent of causes connected with the capa- 

 city of the soil to produce wheat. It is well known that the wheat fly has committed more 

 extensive ra\ ages in this than in the western part of the State ; still, it is not to be supposed 

 that to the fly alone is to be attributed the small average. The crop is more liable to other 

 accidents, to rust, and shrinkage, than in the western counties ; accidents depending in a 

 •rreat measure on the adaptedness of this soil to this crop. 



The territory forming- the T .iconic district lies upon the eastern side of the Hudson river. 

 If we now extend our observations to the district which has been called the Hudson and 

 Mohawk district, we shall embrace a large extent of country differing but little from tin- 

 preceding. 



Albany county raised 44,149 bushels upon 61 12 acres, which gives an average of 7i bushels per acre. 

 Fulton county raised 17,1 18 bushels upon 1G18 acres, thus giving an average of 1 li bushels per acre. 

 Rockland county raised 1705 bushels upon 194 acres, the average of which is 9 bushels per acre. 

 Saratoga county raised 104,660 bushels upon 9745 acres, the average of which is 10 bushels. 

 Schenectady county raised 19,754 bushels upon 1918 acres, whose average is 10i bushels. 



The average of these counties, mostly embraced in the Hudson and Mohawk district, is 

 a little over 9| bushels. Albany county raises only a small crop of wheat ; the lands 

 within 10 or 12 miles of Albany city being cultivated for the more marketable crops, such 

 . corn, oats, and garden vegetabL s. 



If Oneida and Herkimer counties wire added to the foreging calculations, the average 

 for the wheat crop would be increased, as the average for these two counties together is 

 13;j bushels per acre. The reason why these counties are not added, is that their territories 

 nd into the Wheat district proper, being underlaid by the shales of the Clinton group, 

 and our data do not permit us to determine upon what parts of these counties the greatest 

 number of acres of wheat were raised. 



The wheat crop of the western and central counties may now pass under our exami- 

 nation. 



Cavuiri county, in which was raised, in 1?4", 652,896 bushels. The number of acres upon which 



this amount of wheat was harvested was 41,783, which gives an average of 16 bushels per acre. 

 Erie county raised 251,784 bushels upon 20,433 acres, which is an average of only 12 bushels per acre. 

 . see county raised 695,107 bushels upon 42.960 acres, which is an average of 16i bushels per acre. 

 Livingston county raised 521,702 bushels upon 52.047 acres, averaging 16 bushels. 

 Madison county raised 190,361 bushels upon 13.477 acres, the average of 14 bushels per acre. 

 Monroe county raised 1,333,565 upon 68,382 acres, making an average of 19i bushels per acre. 

 X ra county raised 713,318 bushels upon 39,521 acres, equalling 18 bushels per acre. 

 Onondaga county raised 918,616 bushels upon 57.924 acres, giving 16 bushels per acre. 

 Orleans county raised 692.127 bushels upon 38,731 acres, which gives an 118 bushels. 



i countv raised 483,773 upon 32,693 acres, the average of which is 15 bushels per acre. 

 Wayne county raised 587,817 bushels upon 4 1,011 acres, giving an average of 14A bush( 1;. 



ling county raised 331.1 11 upon 22,564 acres, giving an average of 15 bushels per acre. 



