. Annual report of the Commissioner of Agriculture ... Agriculture -- New York (State). PASTURES IN NEW YORK F. E. Bo^'STEEL, Ashville, Chautauqua Co., N. Y. Farmers' Institute Lecturer The supremacy of New York as a hay-pro- ducing state has never been questioned, and it follows, as a natural corrollai'%% that her pasture lands should be noteworthy in extent and quality. The first part of this proposi- tion is easily demonstrated; the latter is much more difficult of proof and its discussion will be the principal purpose of this paper. The total improved land in the farms of this state, accor
. Annual report of the Commissioner of Agriculture ... Agriculture -- New York (State). PASTURES IN NEW YORK F. E. Bo^'STEEL, Ashville, Chautauqua Co., N. Y. Farmers' Institute Lecturer The supremacy of New York as a hay-pro- ducing state has never been questioned, and it follows, as a natural corrollai'%% that her pasture lands should be noteworthy in extent and quality. The first part of this proposi- tion is easily demonstrated; the latter is much more difficult of proof and its discussion will be the principal purpose of this paper. The total improved land in the farms of this state, according to the Thirteenth Census, was 14,844,039 acres; the combined acreage of all crops reported was 8,387,731; leaving a difference of (5,456,308 acres, or per cent, in pastures, orchards, and vinevards. Makino; a generous allowance for the two last men- tioned would still leave the acreage of pasture lands at least equal to its nearest competitor, the hay and forage crops occupying 5,043,373 acres. In addition there is a vast but undetermined acreage of unimproved land in the state whose chief economic use is as pasturage. QUALITY OF PASTURE As ]^ew York lands in general are naturally adapted to the production of hay of good quality, yield, and permanence, the same superiority should hold for pasturage, which it surely did within the memory of many of our present-day dairjTiien and stockmen. But few, if any, will deny that present-day pastures are not to be compared with those of three or four decades ago, when the purchase of mill by-products was practically unknown and when the dairy herds maintained a satisfactory milk flow from early spring till late fall on pasturage alone. It is a sad but unassailable fact that many of these splendid natural pastures have been so abused through the practices of pioneer agriculture that their economic use is limited tO' from four to six weeks, during the rest of the season furnishing little [784]. Please note that these images are ex
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