New York AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. 3 
We are pleased to see that the extended investigations of the 
several breeds of dairy cattle continues to arouse an increasing 
interest among our dairymen and the breeders of cattle, as is 
evidenced by the fact that four heifers and a bull of the Devon, a 
bull and heifer of the Guernsey, a heifer of the Jersey and two 
heifers of the Holstein-Friesian breed have been presented to the 
Station herd in order that the tests being made might be rendered 
as complete as possible. 
The colored chart prepared by the director illustrating the food 
elements and fertilizing value of the various foods and farm pro- 
ducts has necessitated a second edition to supply the demand, 
and several other Stations have secured supplies or contemplate 
so doing for distribution among their several constituents. 
The correspondence of the Station has increased several hundred 
per cent during the few years past, and the applications for the 
bulletins of the Station daily increase. Fourteen bulletins shave, her 
been issued since our last report, aggregating 346 pages, and the 
demand for its publications and for advice on all matters per- 
_ taining to agriculture gives conclusive testimony that the work of 
the Station is rapidly becoming more and more appreciated- by 
the people, and by its increased dissemination of rapidly increas- 
ing value to the farmers of the State in whose behalf directly it 
is being done. 
The value of the agricultural products of New York amount in 
the aggregate 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 
animals 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 
factors in enabling us to retain this proud pre-eminence. 
France and Germany combined have nearly nine times the 
area and nearly fourteen times the population of New York State, 
