A Land A Sayre, Pa., the various branches of the Auburn 

 of Fine division, coming from North Fair Haven, Camden, 



Cattle Cortland a"nd Elmira, join the main trunk. On this divi- 

 sion are bred some of the best Holstein cattle in the 

 country, and nowhere are there better opportunities for 

 the man who wishes to enter the dairy industry. From 

 Sayre the mam line follows the Susquehanna River to 

 Towanda, and thence to Wilkes-Barre, traversing a terri- 

 tory of widely diversified farms. 



Vast A LONG the placid Susquehanna may be seen vast fields of 



Fields grain, orchards and fields of vegetables. The hills 



of Grain back from the river are given over to general farming, but 



mostly to hay and grain. The thousands of dairy cattle 



that graze on these hills produce a considerable proportion 



of the New York City milk supply. 



At Towanda the main line is joined by the Bowman's 

 Creek branch, which runs through a rich farming district. 

 At Tunkhannock, a short distance above Wilkes-Barre, is 

 the junction with the Montrose branch; this serves a section 

 in which the farmers devote themselves principally to 

 the production of milk, hay and grain, while small orchards 

 are cultivated in some of the valleys with uniformly success- 

 ful results. 



WINDING through the Wyoming Valley, still along the 



the Susquehanna, the Lehigh Valley Railroad reaches Wyoming 

 the anthracite coal region. Once a prosperous farming Valley 

 land, its wealth now lies in mining and kindred industries. 

 From Wilkes-Barre the railroad climbs the mountain and 

 passes through the "Switzerland of America." At .Penn 

 Haven Junction the Mahanoy and Hazleton division meets 

 the main line; its chief traffic is coal, but scattered here 

 and there along it are a number of good farms. This is 

 likewise true of the Pottsville branch, which joins the 

 main line at Lizard Creek Junction. 



the railroad is running along the river from which Thrifty 

 it took its name. Passing through Allentown, it pro- Dutch 

 ceeds to South Bethlehem, where connection is made for Settlers 

 Philadelphia. This section was settled many years ago 

 by the Dutch, and they have farmed it for many genera- 

 tions, producing wheat and other cereals from the rich 

 limestone soil. These "Pennsylvania Dutch," as they 

 are often called, also reap handsome profits from dairy 

 and poultry products. 



Crossing the Delaware River at Easton the railroad 

 enters, in the State of New Jersey, a peach country that 

 in recent years underwent an attack by the destructive San 



