New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-11-07
SEEKING NEW YORK FARMS
WeSternerS Attracted by Fertll-
ity of Soil in This State.
RATES TO SHIPPERS LOWER
Land Show at the Garden Re
veals Movement Of Agricult-
wrists Eastward.

Tn az tho American Land and irrigation
Exposition IN Madison Square Garden Ne"
York state is conducting an exhibit OF her
rural charms which is attracting many
serious inquiry for farm land on the part
Of Westerners. r. a, Pearson 'omrhls-
eioner Of Agriculture. could sec In this. ne
said yesterday. a tangible example OF
movement which has been gaining momen-
tum for several years-the return on agri-
culturists from the West TO the more pront-
able acreage Of the East
"The purpose OF our exhibit SAID ne
financed nv the State Department NJ Az
ricuIture the New York State Grange the
New York State Fruit Growers society
the Western New York Horticultural SO
cietv and the New York Central lines Is 4
little different from the other eXnlplts III
the hall here. We are not trying 10 can
attention 10 the wonderful and exceptional
so much as 10 the ordinary pronuc's "
agriculture. These are attractive enough
We are placing emphasis also on the great
range Of our agricultural production Ne"
York does not depend on single crop suc'
az wheat She produces, for example, -
nor cent Of ali the cheese produced in the
United States The value Of her dairy
products exceeds that Of the dairy products
If anv other state. She produces more
hay and more buckwheat than any other
state.
"Nesterners have been utterly durntouhu
cd al the statistics | have given them y.
the productivity Of New York SOIL l"e
reason the reaction from West TO East has
not set in stronger 50 far Is that the people
&c 2 whole have not get got over the no.
tion acquired in childhood that the West
is the great agricultural III Dorado Why
New York stands AZ the head Of all the
states OF the Union in the value Of farm
uroducts an acre. and is only passed III
the total value of farm products by Ohlo'
Illinois and Iowa, because these states have
far greater area You hear on every
hand tsIk Of the marvellous value of crops
AN acre in the Mississippi Valley. but what
do YOU hear Of the fertility Of New York
soil? And yet We actually surpass in the
productivity Of our land any section of the
Mississippi Valley.
."rhere Is another thing. We are laying
s,ross on the fact that the farmers locat-
ing IN this state have the advantage o:
lower fright rates to the great markets.
For example. farmer in the central part
of the state may send his grain to New
work. CITY for 10 cents n hundredweight,
while the farmer Of Illinois must pay %
cents.
Every one knows that the cost Of living
has becn Increasing and that a part OF the
increase il going to the farmer. As bust
moss the production OF food products is be-
con,ing more attractive every year. | at
tended a congress OF fruit growers the
ether day upstate, and counted one hundred
automobiles in the parking space"
tn begin with the New York exhibit con-
,aIns mammoth cheese, probably the big
oas, one eyer made. weighing three tons
I'd o1s hounds. Special apparatus was
rneded 10 mould It and special apparatus
50 needed 10 bring 1t TO the exposition,
here ~ rests on a broad and substantial
nndos,al The milk OF approximately three
,,o,sard COWS for one day. both milkings.
went into that cheeSF'
pse,de IL is an ohlong refrigerator Of
- sat In birchbark, containing the he