New York AGRICULTURAL ExpERIMENT STATION. 17 
But not only is our. State imperial in its extent of area and 
the aggregate of its productions. but also, and this is a most 
pertinent point of the discussion, in the great diversity of its 
~ agricrltural products. 
‘William C. Barry told us in his address as president of the 
Western New York Horticultural Society, that there were in 
~ New York 438,350 acres in vineyards. That in 1889 the grapes 
sold in New York amounted to $5,012,215, and those of Cali- 
fornia to $4,745,097. New York equals sixteen per cent more. 
’ Our dairy cattle numbered January, 1892, 1,552,217, valued at 
$40,637,041, nine and one-half per cent of the total number and 
_ eleven and one-half per cent of the aggregate value of all the 
dairy cattle in the United States. 
It is estimated that the capital invested in the dairy industry 
in the State of New York is $400,000,000. ; 
For simply protecting the products of this industry the sum of 
$95,000 has been placed upon the appropriation bill. 
As to all police supervision, we may say in the words of Burns, 
“what's done we partly may compute, we know not what’s 
resisted.” But with all which has been accomplished by this 
expenditure we will all agree that it has not brought substan- 
tial relief to the dairymen of our State in increased prosperity 
and enhanced prices. 
We do not wish to be understood as objecting or even offering 
to object to this appropriation of $95,000, but to our minds it is 
clear that had an equal sum been expended in educating and 
informing our dairymen as to the details and the economies of 
_ their business, we feel confident that their products might bid 
_ defiance to oleomargarine and all its allies in our markets, and 
; this dairy industry instead of being depressed might soon become 
one of the most profitable industries of the country. 
Let us briefly point out how this may be accomplished. 
We have, mainly as gifts outright to the State from the several 
4 breeding associations of the country, one of the finest herds of . 
 éuitle ever brought together, consisting of: Five Holsteins, five 
p Avstires, four American Holderness, six Guernseys, five Jerseys, 
4 three short horns and five Devons. 

