New York AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. 19 
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, as 
the above table shows; but, as will be geen, New York stood 
upon acreage fifth in the list of these states in its average yield. 
In 1888 the above crops had an acreage of 8,967,318 and a 
value of $121,333,857, while all the New England and Middle 
States without New York and Pennsylvania had an aggregate 
acreage of 6,672,642 acres, and their products of the above are 
valued at $94,321,795; only seventy-eight per cent of area and 
seventy-four per cent of value of New York. © 
Had New York stood first of the New England and Middle 
States instead of averaging fifth she would have received an 
ageresate of $39,573,827.86 more for these leading crops than she 
did. Does anybody believe our lands to be less fertile, our 
people generally less clever than those of the New England and 
Middle States. ; 
The New England States and the Middle States excepting New 
York and Pennsylvania have in all nine Experiment Stations. 
Had New York a number proportional to its acres of cultivated 
land it would have eleven. Had it Stations in proportion to the 
ageregate value of its leading crops, it would have twelve. 
The following table presents a comparison of certain of the 
agricultural statistics of New York with the New England and 
Middle States, excepting Pennsylvania, an examination of which 
may surprise many who have not had their attention directed to 
the matter. 

