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Excellent markets, which often pay the more favorable prices, 

 are found in Pittsfield, Springfield, and Providence. 



Practically all of the milk produced in Columbia County is sold 

 as market milk, which is collected by some of the large milk 

 companies and shipped to New York or shipped direct by the 

 producer to Albany and other neighboring cities. The county 

 has excellent railroad facilities, and the convenience to the New 

 York City market and to the large cities in the New England 

 states is of great advantage in disposing of milk products. Italian 

 and Greek types of cheese are manufactured to a limited extent. 



The agricultural organizations in the county are as follows : 

 Capitol District National Farm Loan Association. 

 Claverack Cooperative Association. 

 Columbia County Agricultural Society. 

 Columbia County Beekeepers' Cooperative Association. 

 Columbia County Breeders' Association. 

 Columbia County Dairymen's League. 

 Columbia County Farm Bureau Association. 

 Columbia County National Farm Loan Association. 

 Columbia County Sheep Growers' Association. 

 First National Farm Loan Association of Nassau. 

 Germantown Cooperative Association, Inc. 

 Granges: Pomona and seventeen subordinate granges. 

 Kinderhook Duroc-Jersey Swine Breeders' Association. 

 Kinderhook Pomological Association. 



EDUCATIONAL FACILITIES 

 The schools registered with the regents as having facilities 

 suitable for maintaining high school and academic courses are 

 located at Chatham, Hillsdale, Hudson, Kinderhook, New 

 Lebanon, Philmont, and Valatie. 



STATUS OF AGRICULTURE IN 1910 

 (Taken from U. S. CeneuB of 1910) 



Land in farms 374, 415 acres 



Number of farms 2, 963 



Per cent of farm land improved 78 . 6 



LIVE STOOK PRODUCTS 



Milk sold 3, 7G0, 114 gal. 



Cream sold 21, 513 gal. 



Butter fat sold 90. Oil lbs. 



Butter produced 790. 296 lbs. 



Cheese produced 230 lbs. 



Eggs produced 1. 002. 218 doz. 



Wool produced 13.459 fleecea 



