50 THE COW 



ware where the cow has been supreme for a cen- 

 tury. It is here where as nowhere else the romance 

 of the old days survives. Long ago the old Orange 

 County Bank printed its bank notes in golden yel- 

 low to signify that butter was the source of the 

 wealth and prosperity of the county. The whole 

 agricultural scheme of this region rests on the fact 

 that the valleys are very narrow and the hillsides 

 too steep and rocky to till, yet out of these same 

 hills burst springs of pure soft water, and cover- 

 ing them is a carpet of small, sweet, natural 

 grasses which have made them as famous in story 

 as the blue-grass regions of Kentucky. Along the 

 Pennsylvania line from Delaware County to the 

 Chautauqua grape belt is the "Southern Tier," a 

 region of river valleys with much not too fertile 

 upland that more and more is coming to realize 

 that it is fundamentally a land of cow-pastures. 

 Indeed, when one comes to survey this great state, 

 one realizes that ultimately the dairy cow will pos- 

 sess the land everywhere save on Long Island, parts 

 of the Hudson Valley, the beautiful cereal-growing 

 Finger Lake country of the western counties, and 

 the favored golden orchard section of the Ontario 

 shore. Conditions of soil, topography, rainfall, 

 markets and even heredity and racial stocks have 

 been the determining factors which have made 

 dairying the premier industry in our northeastern 

 states. In a word, the cow has gone in greatest 

 numbers where there were large sections of land 



