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12. The average for the whole district, therefore, is only 8 bushels per acre. It is proper 
to state, that 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 ravages 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 
great measure on the adaptedness of this soil to this crop. 
The territory forming the Taconic 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 the 
preceding. 
Albany county raised 44.149 bushels upon 6112 acres, which gives an average of 7^ bushels per acre. 
Fulton county raised 17,118 bushels upon 1618 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 10| 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 
as hay, corn, oats, and garden vegetables. 
If Oneida and Herkimer counties were added to the foreging calculations, the average 
for the wheat crop would be increased, as the average for these two counties together is 
13^ bushels per acre. The reason why these counties are not added, is that their territories 
extend 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. 
Cayuga county, in which was raised, in 1845, 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. 
Genesee county raised 695,107 bushels upon 42,960 acres, which is an average of 16i bushels per acre. 
Livingston county raised 821,702 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 1,338,585 upon 68,382 acres, making an average of 19i bushels per acre. 
Niagara 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 average of 18 bushels. 
Seneca county raised 483,773 upon 32,698 acres, the average of which is 15 bushels per acre. 
Wayne county raised 587,817 bushels upon 41,041 acres, giving an average of 14| bushels. 
Wyoming county raised 331,1 11 upon 22,564 acres, giving an average of 15 bushels per acre. 
