New York AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. 1 
Tar AGRICULTURE OF THE EMPIRE STATE. 
The New York Agricultural Experiment Station was wisely 
established, as is stated in the words of the act “For the purpose 
of promoting every branch of agriculture by scientific investigation 
and experiment.” 
In 1851 the first experiment station was established at Mockern 
in Saxony. To-day there are in Germany and France alone 110. 
In proportion to area New York should have thirteen, in pro- 
portion to population, eight. 
But it may be urged that a comparison with these countries of 
the old world will hardly apply to us, let us therefore present a 
few statistics concerning the Empire State as compared with its: 
nearest neighbors, the New England and Middle States. 
The following statistics are compiled from the annual reports 
of the Department of Agriculture, 1879 to 1888: 
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