SMALL FARMING

Te Aroha News, Volume I, Issue 44, 5 April 1884, Page 7

SMALL FARMING

The possible lesults to be achieved by small farming are well illustrated by the State of New York. In that State the great majority of the farms are small, ranging Iron 10 acres to 200, the average bein>; something under 60 acres. In itiW the total quantity of land cultivated in farm* was i 8,000,000 act e», and the fauns were 377,000 in nniuboi\ In 1881 theie w. re 7.3i>'),0')0 acres reported by the several county assessors under cultivation in the State ol lalii'oinh. But theso rep.uts are consulted short til' the mark, and the total acreage in ly he taken at 8,500,00.). The: tot il proJucts of the 18,OUO,000 acres in small farms in New York were valued at 178,025,51)5 dol Only one other Statj (Illinois, which has 20,000,000 acres cu.tivalod, produced more than in New York. The aeioagt cultivated in Illinois was 40 per cent, more tiian in New York, hut the value ol products v/as only 13 per cent. more. This illustrated tue difference between largo and small farms ; in the case of the •atter eveiy aci\j can be brought ui»dei Ciose arid direct (supervision. New York, while not a great grain btate, produces one-seventh of all the hay of the country, and that bignilios a large dairy busme-s, which is geiieially more pro li table than grain f Truing. In 1876 New York State pnduced nearly one-seventh of all the butter mule in the United State-, and nearly oue-thiid o£ all the cheese. — Agri cultural Gazzette.