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upon our bulletin mailing list, and this number could be without 
effort quadrupled were the means at hand to meet the expense of 
printing and mailing such increase in number, since, as will,be — 
seen, we at present average not more than one to every fifty of 
our farmers. Applications for the bulletins of the station increase 
daily. Eleven bulletins have been issued during the present year, 
aggregating 333 pages, and the demand for publications and for 
advice on all matters pertaining to agriculture gives conclusive 
testimony that the work of the station is rapidly becoming more 
and more appreciated by the people, and by the increased dissem- 
ination of its publications rapidly increasing in value to the farm- 
ers of the State in whose behalf directly the work is being done. 
The value of the agricultural products in New York amount in 
the ageregate to at least $130,000,000 and probably to $150,000,000 
annually, or upon an average from $340 to $400 a year for each of 
our 380,000 farmers. 
The leading crops of New York are equal in value to 5.7 per 
cent of the total production of the United States; the farm ani- 
mals to 5.8 per cent; number of milch cows to 9.7 per cent; while 
their value is 12.4 per cent of the value of all the cows in the 
United States. 
It will be seen, therefore, that our State is not only in name 
but in comparison with other States, the Empire State, and that 
the work of our experiment station is one of the most important z 
factors in enabling us to retain this proud pre-eminence. 
When we consider the great diversity which exists in our Stata 
in soil, climate and in the character of its agricultural products, 
it is doubtful whether New York is surpassed by an equal area 
upon the globe. 
Tt would appear most desirable therefore that everything should 
be done which may enable the station, now for ten years estab- 
lished, to carry forward the work of investigation and accomplish 
that purpose for which it was organized. ‘3 | 
It is gratifying to observe that for ten years the average acreage 
* yield of the principal farm crops in New York has, in every crop, ~ 
exceeded the average of the New England and Middle States. 
