Address Delivered Before the N. Y. State Agricultural Society
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A farmer who can raise two hundred bushels of potatoes on an acre of land, with a ready market for them at a moderate price, will find it more profitable than to raise thirty bushels of wheat on the same acre, at the highest market rate in times even, of scarcity. Milk, fresh butter, green vegetables of all kinds, and animals for the slaughter-house, are among the daily necessities of great towns, and most of them must be raised or prepared for the market in the immediate neighborhood. Their pr...oduction will absorb most of the geo- graphical area of Long Island and the river coun- ties. But the western and central portions of New York are beyond the influence of these daily wants, and the only question as to the continued cultivation of wheat will be, whether with the advantage of a market near at hand, they can compete with the wheat districts of the West, and soil at remunerating prices. I had occasion, some five years ago, to settle an account on the basis of the price of wheat at Albany, in May, for the twenty preceding years, and it was ad- justed at the average of $1.32 per bushel.
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