. Annual report of the Commissioner of Agriculture ... Agriculture -- New York (State). Proceedings of Seventeenth Xormal Institute 273 realize. Rates of production of both crop tuid animal products that will be profitable depend very much upon prices received. Potato prices do not justify the same fertilizer practices in Franklin county as on Long Island. Cheese factory prices for milk do not justify the same feeding methods as do a wholesale price of 4 cents per quart. Parmers are nearer correct in respect to production rates than many agricultural workers believe. LIMITS OF OPTIMUM SIZE, DI
. Annual report of the Commissioner of Agriculture ... Agriculture -- New York (State). Proceedings of Seventeenth Xormal Institute 273 realize. Rates of production of both crop tuid animal products that will be profitable depend very much upon prices received. Potato prices do not justify the same fertilizer practices in Franklin county as on Long Island. Cheese factory prices for milk do not justify the same feeding methods as do a wholesale price of 4 cents per quart. Parmers are nearer correct in respect to production rates than many agricultural workers believe. LIMITS OF OPTIMUM SIZE, DIVERSITY AND PRODUCTION It is desired only to call your attention to the fact that with all these factors there are upper limits as well as lower. The reasons are made clear in the references cited at the beginning of this talk. The limits vary in different sections, depending primarily on such natural conditions as topography, climate and soil; and second- arily on market facilities, labor supply, etc. This point will be illustrated by the farm records that Average Number of Days Between the Last Frost in Spring and the First in Fall * From Cornell Bui. 316, Frosts in New York, by U. M. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original New York (State). Dept. of Agriculture; New York State Agricultural Experiment Station; Cornell University. Agricultural Experiment Station. Albany : State of New York, Dept. of Agriculture
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