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for show purposes. At a recent Milk and Dairy Farm Exposition 

 in New York City a cheese weighing 0,500 pounds was exhibited. 

 In Lewis County there are about 7 milk establishments. A 

 large part of the milk is sold as market milk. Among the manu- 

 factured products arc 5,000,000 jiounds of American cheese, 

 large amounts of Limburger and Minister cheeses, and nearly 

 14,000,000 pounds of condensed and evaporated milk. At Low- 

 villo is located one of the largest, cold storage plants used wholly 

 for dairy products. 



The agricultural organizations are as follows: 

 Boonville Fair Association. 



Granges: Pomona and twenty-one subordinate granges. 

 Lewis County Agricultural Society. 

 Lewis County Beekeepers' Association. 

 Lewis County Dairymen's League. 

 Lewis County Farm Bureau Association. 

 Lewis County Holstein-Friesian Breeders' Association. 

 Lyons Falls Farmers' Cooperative Association, Inc. 

 North Country National Farm Loan Association. 



EDUCATIONAL FACILITIES 



Approved courses in agriculture and home, making are given at 

 Lowville. 



Schools registered as having suitable facilities for maintaining 

 courses in high school and academic work are located as follows: 

 Beaver Falls, Constableville, Copenhagen, Harrisville, Lowville, 

 Lyons Falls, Port Lcyden and Turin. 



STATUS OF AGRICULTURE IN 1910 

 (Taken from U. S. Census of 1910) 



Land in farms 475, 033 acres 



Number of farms 3, 343 



Per cent of farm land improved 50. 8 



LIVE STOCK PRODUCTS 



Milk sold 14, 805, 241 gal. 



Cream sold 626 gal. 



Butter fat sold 208, 857 lbs. 



Butter produced 387, 922 lbs. 



Cheese produced 6, 405 lbs. 



EggB produced 636. 297 doz. 



Wool produced 2, 292 fleeces 



