ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT OF FAEMS IN PENNSYLVANIA. 5 



The principal market is Grove City, though a few farmers sell 

 some of their produce in Harrisville, Mercer, and New Castle, Pa. 



Railway transportation is furnished by the Bessemer & Lake Erie 

 and the Pennsylvania Railroads. There are a few miles of macadam 

 road. The Pittsburgh and Erie and the Pittsburgh and Franklin 

 roads, which are kept in somewhat better condition than the average 

 country road, run through portions of the area. 



The region has been settled for about 100 years, and the type of 

 farming is general in nature. Until the establishment of the cream- 

 ery, general crop and live-stock farming prevailed. Since that time, 

 however, much more attention has been given to dairying. The 

 leading crops, from the standpoint of acreage, according to the 



Fig. 2.— View showing typical topography of region. 



United States Census reports, have been hay, oats, corn, wheat, and 

 buckwheat, arranged in order of acreage, and the relative proportion 

 of the total crop acreage devoted to these crops has changed but 

 little. Similar data show that there has been but little change in the 

 proportion of the different classes, of live stock. 



THE GROVE CITY CREAMERY.! 



In May, 1915, the Dairy Division of the United States Department 

 of Agriculture organized and began to operate a creamery at Grove 

 City. (See fig. 3.) This creamery has been very successful. Be- 

 cause of the excellence of the products manufactured, patrons have 

 received good prices for their milk. 



Indirectly the creamery has been of benefit to the community in 

 that it has served to maintain at a more stable level throughout the 



i See "How Dairying Built Up a Community," Yearbook Separate 65. 



