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old. Animals and dairying are becoming more and more 
important. This is a distinct advantage, not only beoause 
the present S0lils are eminently adapted to growing forage, 
but also because animals intelligently managed will continually 
improve tne productive sower of the soil. Lastly fruit is 
becoming, slowly to be sure, of considerable importance. 
Again the soils indicate that some kinds of fruit ean 
probably be grown to a considerable degree of vVerrection, 
especially those kinds which are hardy. 
By reviewing the past it is apparent that the soils 
of the region in yuestion have produced crops to which 
they are adapted. Taking the present as an indication of 
the future it seems that a change is coming: in, to which 
the region is no less adapted than it was to that of the past. 
Now perishable products can profitably be grown and disposed 
of at markets far from home. The. conditions ot the cast 
did not permit or this. The new oroducts Will be largely 
‘those whieh tend to make the soils better, instead of 
decreasing its fertility. 
In eonelusion it may be said that farms in the Genesee 
valley presenting the soil conditions of the one in yuestion, 
can by careful management, by adaptation of changing conditions, 
by taking advantage of the new markets now opened up, by 
growing crops to whieh the soil is adapted, become more 
