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of whick uianafactares three to eiglit million pouuds of butter : Saiut 

 Lawrence, Delaware, Chenango, Chautauqua, Jefferson, Oueida, Otsego. 

 These are the heavy-weights in the production of the dairy-products of 

 New York. The cereals are principal products in Genesee, Onondaga, 

 Cayuga, Livingston, Monroe, Niagara, Ontario, Seneca, and Orleans, 

 and shipped in some cases beyond county-lines. Hay is shipped spar- 

 ingly. Hops help the revenues of Madison, Oueida, Otsego, Schoharie, 

 which usually produce more than half the crop of the State. Potatoes 

 contribute largely to the resources of Washington, Eensselaer, Saratoga, 

 Saint Lawrence, Franklin, Schenectady, Sufiolk, Kings, Queens, West- 

 chester, and other counties. Hay and. straw are shipped from Dutchess, 

 and hay to some extent from many other counties, among which are 

 named Lewis, Franklin, Columbia, Wyoming, Fulton, Onondaga, and 

 Schenectady. 



New Jersey, from its location between the two great cities of the 

 continent, depends largely upon the products of the garden and orchard 

 as money-crops. Much of the milk of New Jersey dairies is sent to 

 market unmanufactured, yet butter is sold to a limited extent. It is 

 one of the special products of Hudson and Sussex. The meat-production 

 is veal, spring-lamb, mutton in autumn and winter, and beef to a limited 

 extent. Most of the New Jersey stock of sheep is changed yearly. The 

 common custom is to purchase in August, feed and fatten the wethers till 

 Christmas, keep the ewes for lambs, market the fleece in June, sell the 

 lambs at four months for more money than the sheep cost, and make 

 good mutton of the ewes by midsummer. Poultry is quite an important 

 item of production. Among the counties in which fruits, ])otatoes, and 

 other vegetables form the cash staples, are Burlington, Bergen, Cam- 

 den, and Monmouth. Dairy-products are prominent in Hudson, and 

 wheat and corn in Warren. For the past three years this State has 

 averaged about 100,000 bushels of cranberries produced, which is more 

 than a third of the crop of the United States. The area in this fruit is 

 not far from five thousand acres, requiring a capital of more than a 

 million and a half in land and its cultivation. New Jersey is a good 

 market for beeves, and most of the horses and mules are purchased 

 from abroad. Western flour and wheat, and some corn, are brought 

 into most of the counties. 



Pennsylvania comes nearer being self-supporting than any of the older 

 States of large population, producing everything that a system of mixed 

 farming in a temperate climate can yield, and depending mainly upon 

 the manufacturing and mining populations of the State for its market. 

 It does not ship largely any of its products, as New York does butter 

 and cheese, but sends a small surplus of dairy and fruit products, wool 

 and mutton and other surplus of the farm, to New York, and butter and 

 fruit to Baltimore and Washington. Its purchases from other States 

 are far less in variety and extent than those of New York or New Jersey, 

 in comparison with population. Animals are brought into the State for 

 fattening, and liberally for stock improvement. A correspondent for 

 Mercer, who has imported Clydesdale horses from Glasgow, English 

 coach-horses from Hull, and draught-horses from London, recently sold 

 four for $12,181. Many Pennsylvauians are quite successful as stock- 

 breeders, and find markets in difterent portions of the country. Lan- 

 caster, York, and Bucks send millions of pounds of tobacco beyond 

 State lines. Susquehanna, with an area of 800 square miles, makes 

 3,000,000 pounds of butter and sells 90 per cent, of it. The model 

 farm district, Lancaster, ships four-fifths of its products beyond the 

 countv, and brings little in. Among the counties which have a 

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