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Canandaigua, the county Beat, is located on Canandaigua Lake, 

 and is noted as a pleasure resort. It has important manufac- 

 tories of enamelled ware and tin goods. 



Ontario County has direct railroad connection with Syracuse, 

 Rochester and Buffalo, and also with the more distant markets 

 of Xew York, Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington, and 

 the coal-mining towns of eastern Pennsylvania. 



The milk produced in Ontario County is sold principally as 

 market milk in the cities of Geneva and Rochester. 



There are five canning factories within the county. 



The agricultural organizations are as follows : 



East Bloomfield Farmers' Club. 



Gorharu Agricultural Society. 



Granges : Pomona and twenty-one subordinate granges. 



Hemlock Lake Union Agricultural Society. 



Ionia Growers* Association. 



Naples Union Agricultural Society. 



Ontario County Agricultural Society. 



Ontario County Beekeepers' .Society. 



Ontario County Canning Crop Growers' Association. 



Ontario County Dairymen's League. 



Ontario County Farm Bureau Association. 



Ontario County Fruit Growers' Association. 



Ontario County Sheep Growers' Cooperative Association, Inc. 



Ontario National Farm Loan Association. 



Rochester National Farm Loan Association. 



Seneca National Farm Loan Association. 



EDUCATIONAL FACILITIES 



Geneva is the seat of Hobart and William Smith colleges. 

 Approved courses in agriculture and home making are given at 

 Canandaigua. 



Schools registered as having suitable facilities for maintain- 

 ing courses in high school and academic work are located at Canan- 

 daigua, Clifton Springs, East Bloomfield, Geneva, Honeoye, 

 Manchester, Xaples, Phelps, Shortsville, Victor, and West 



Bloomfield. 



STATUS OF AGRICULTURE IN 1910 



(Taken from U. S. Census of 1910) 



Land in farms 387, 069 acres 



Number of farms 4, 416 



Per cent of farm land improved 82. 6 



