New YorkE AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. 21 
But not only is our State imperial in its extent of area and the 
ageregate of its productions, but also, and this is a most pertinent — 
point of the discussion, in the great diversity of its agricultural 
products. | 
William C. Barry told us in his address as President of the 
Western New York Horticultural Society that there were in New 
York 48,350 acres in vineyards. That in 1889 the grapes sold in 
New York amounted to $5,512,215 and those of California 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 substantial 
relief to the dairymen of our state in increased prosperity and 
enhanced prices. 
We do not wish to be aederetoed 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. 
1. We have, mainly as gifts outright to the State from the sey- 
eral breeding associations of the country one of the finest herds 
of cattle ever brought together, consisting of: Five Holsteins, 
five Ayrshires, four American Holderness, six Guernseys, five 
Jerseys, three Short Horns and five Devons. 
These came from herds in New York, Pennsylvania, Vermont, 
Massachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode Island, and are all regis- 
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