New York AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. 21 
MO aide. Soke eee ee mee a $28,280, 104 
UN (a KO Sea Ris ae Ten oe pee ae Ted 15,844,346 
PeGliitoy |Vallia. “ra. (ec reeunch eens eee re 9,884,809 
ANTE cS eel pir are ee He May res Pe ng 8,901,220 
IWIGCHID as Ais.) 2 deeeeeten em tetas oe See. ee 5,059,302 
These five states produce 52.3% of all the fruit in the United 
States. 
As a dairy State, New York has produced, as shown. by figures 
collected biennially by the Department of Agriculture since 1892, 
butter in factories as follows: 
SO eee ee set WEN hes ee he ty Ce ee ee 19,497,357 
LOOSE ere ee Seiya tty see 23,218,626 
SRT Ok eee on eterna gg ar ae en ae 21,429,694 
Deeg eee nee et He es oe aa 30,586,088 
TOO rn Sart ERS Gm Oe ee Se ee eg 39,183,311 
LOC mere al th er ne dg een eel, anette 49,919,794 
POCA PW raterus irs s Tis hee rita anc ee ee 64,923,779 
FUR MEY PAE Sear eM MOM SiN ccrts = 20S chi a me 51,299,081 
During the same period of time she has produced cheese in 
factories as follows: 
PO02 sae Pe PI te Be EE Bert ks ces ae 130,991,310 
ite 8 ie cei rey Un Te id Pe Re SEAL eg EE lees; 700/325 
Fate boeais Wiia, WEIN ELS een ke Sart r eee Sila) a 87,765,143 
LO aaa ee fae eng cine MEI EPS ORY feat ikl 6 105,405,206 
LOM es See re ak nae ce Pave tae amet oo we" 120,058,672 
IMS, i Re Oh ES ele Fe ee yao ae aa a 123,987,516 
RO WBA Shs 2K Ra Rc a ee 124,594,538 
11 BNW OS 2 fet COAT CS ae ACE ee 135,803,770 
The future of agriculture in New York State is to be determined 
or modified by the action that the State, itself, may take relative to it ; 
but to keep abreast of the times, education, such as is given by the 
agricultural colleges, and information, such as is acquired and dis- 
seminated by the agricultural experiment stations, must continue 
to be given to the people so that this State may be in the front rank 
of all the movements involving the application of new knowledge 
in the agricultural world, and the State must protect the markets 
against the unfair substitution of imitations of food products for the 
