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It has numerous manufactures, Including planing and saw mills, 

 ship building, and the making of machinery and clothing. 



Middletown manufactures oars and leather, and a rubber fac- 

 tory is soon to be in operation. Another well-known product is 

 " star " hack saw blades. In this city is located the State Home- 

 opathic Hospital. 



Port Jervis and Goshen, the county seat, are smaller trade 

 centers within the county. The former has long been known as the 

 location of the car and repair shops of the Erie Railroad. Xew 

 York City receives most of the farm produce sold outside the 

 county. A limited amount is sent to Paterson, Xew Jersey. 



About 223,000,000 pounds of milk is handled annually through 

 the 59 milk establishments of the county, much of which is sold 

 as market milk. Among the manufactured products are more 

 than 1.000,000 pounds of American cheese, about 1,000,0.00 

 pounds of foreign type and fancy cheeses, and nearly 2*0,000,000 

 pounds of condensed and evaporated milk, besides a considerable 

 quantity of powdered milk. 



The agricultural organizations are as follows: 

 Chester Produce Growers' Cooperative Association, Inc. 

 Cornwall Poultry Association. 



First Orange County National Farm Loan Association. 

 Florida Onion Growers' Cooperative Association. Inc. 

 Granges : Pomona and twenty-one subordinate granges. 

 Newburgh Vegetable Growers' Association. 

 Orange County Agricultural Society. 

 Orange County Dairymen's League. 

 Orange County Farm Bureau Association. 

 Orange County Sheep Growers' Association. 

 Warwick Valley Poultry Association. 



EDUCATIONAL FACILITIES 

 Schools registered as having suitable facilities for maintaining 

 courses in high school and academic work are located at Central 

 Valley, Chester, Cornwall, Cornwall-on-Hudson, Goshen, Harri- 

 man, Highland Falls, Middletown, Monroe, Montgomery, New- 

 burgh, Otisville, Pine Bush, Port Jervis, Florida, Tuxedo Park, 

 Walden, "Warwick, and Washingtonville. 



STATUS OF AGRICULTURE IN 1910 

 (Taken from 1". S. Census of 1910) 



Land in farms 384, 145 acres 



Number of farms 3, 935 



Per cent of farm land improved 69 . 3 



