4 8 4 



BULLETIN 229. 

 TABLE 17 Concluded. 



No orchards set between 1890 and 1894 were seen. Those set since 1894 have 

 given no yields worth considering. In no year has the average reached one-fourth 

 of a bushel per acre. 



and for the remainder of the county, when made separately, show the 

 maximum yields to come at this same age. 



There are several orchards from 75 to 100 years old that are still profit- 

 able. There are other old trees, but few entire orchards. Most of the 

 orchards have had trees set in at later dates, so that the orchards could 

 not be used in this tabulation of yields. It must, of course, be remem- 

 bered that most orchards set in the early part of the century have 

 disappeared. 



TOPOGRAPHY. 



Orleans county is divided into two rather distinct topographical regions : 

 the old lake bed and a glaciated region. Over one-third of the county 

 lies north of the ridge and was formerly the old lake bed. The ridge 

 was a sand bar or the old lake shore line. This is the same ridge that 

 crosses Wayne county and extends from Sodus Bay to Lewiston. 



The entire county is gently rolling. There are comparatively few hills, 

 and these are not very high. The general slope is to the north, the rise 

 being from 246 feet, the level of the -lake, to about 650 feet, the general 

 level in the south part of the county. The highest elevation in the county 

 is 737 feet. 



In many parts of the county there is not enough slope to give good 

 natural drainage. A strip north of the ridge about two miles wide is 

 particularly level. In the south and southeast parts of the county there 



