558 Agricultural Manual 



Tbc principal streams are the Unadilla River and its branches, 

 Wharton and Butternut creeks; also the Susquehanna and its 

 tributaries — Otego, Schenevus, Cherry Valley, and Oaks creeks. 

 Otsego Lake, the Largest body of water in this region, lies within 

 the townships of Otego, ^Springfield, and Middlefield. It is 

 eight miles long and about one mile wide, and lies about 1,200 

 feet above sea level. This lake has been made famous as the 

 scene of Cooper's novels — " The Deeralayer " and " The 

 Pioneer." Canadarago, or Schuyler Lake, and several small 

 ponds also lie within the county. 



Limestone is quarried in the northeast. In that section the 

 soil is a good quality of gravelly, calcareous loam. Further south 

 it is a clayey and shaly loam on the hills, and alluvium in the 

 valleys. 



DESCRIPTION BY TOWNSHIPS 



Burlington : The surface consists of a hilly upland with 

 ridges extending north and south which attain an elevation of 

 400 to 500 feet above the valleys at various points. These ridges 

 are arable to their summits. The principal streams are Butter- 

 nut and Wharton creeks. The soil on the hills is a slaty loam, 

 and in the valleys a gravelly loam. The leading industry is 

 dairying, the milk being sent chiefly to the local cheese factories 

 or to the Borden Condensary at Edmeston. 



Products: Dairy products, hay, oats and corn. 



Average values of farm land range from $30 to $50 an acre. 



Butternuts : The surface is a hilly upland rising from the 

 Unadilla River on the west in a series of steep bluffs, 500 or 000 

 feet in height. Butternuts Creek flows somhwest through a deep 

 valley near the center of the town. A large number of small 

 streams flow near the valleys among the hills. These hills are 

 arable to (heiT summits, and the soil is a good quality of red shale 

 and gravelly loam. 



Products : Dairy products, and general farm crops. 



Average values of farm land range from $40 to $50 an acre. 



Note: The value of farm land varies widely within short distances 

 throughout the whole county, especially in the Southern part, depending on 

 the condition and type of soil and buildings, and nearness to improved high- 

 ways or markets. In nearly every town land values may range from $10 to 

 $200 per acre. 



