258 PHASES OF FARM LIFE. 



thousand hills, are the prominent agricultural features 

 of these sections of the country. Good grass and 

 good water are the two indispensables to successful 

 dairying. And the two generally go together. Where 

 there are plenty of copious cold springs there is no 

 dearth of grass. When the cattle are compelled to 

 browse upon weeds and various wild growths, the 

 milk and butter will betray it in the flavor. Tender, 

 juicy grass, the ruddy blossoming clover, or the fra- 

 grant, well-cured hay, make the delicious milk and 

 the sweet butter. Then there is a charm about a 

 natural pastoral country that belongs to no other. 

 Go through Orange County in May and see the vivid 

 emerald of the smooth fields and hills. It is a new 

 experience of the beauty and effectiveness of simple 

 grass. And this grass has rare virtues, too, and im- 

 parts a flavor to the milk and butter that has made 

 them famous. 



Along all the sources of the Delaware the land 

 flows with milk, if not with honey. The grass is ex- 

 cellent, except in times of protracted drought, and 

 then the browsings in the beech and birch woods are 

 good substitute. Butter is the staple product. Every 

 housewife is or wants to be a famous butter maker, 

 and Delaware County butter rivals Orange in market. 

 It is a high, cool grazing country. The farms lie 

 tilted up against the sides of the mountain or lapping 

 over the hills, striped or checked with stone wall, and 

 presenting to the eye long stretches of pasture and 

 meadow land, alternating with ploughed fields and 



