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and flow southwest into Fulton County. The soil is chiefly a 

 coarse, yellow sand or gravel of poor quality; large tracts are 

 stony and rocky. 



Products : Potatoes, corn, oats and forage crops. 



Average values of farm land range from $25 to $50 an acre. 



Saratoga: A range of high, rounded, and sometimes terraced 

 hills extend north and south through the central and western 

 parts. These hills rise 450 feet above the Hudson and slope in 

 every direction. Harrow alluvial flats bordered by high clay 

 bluffs extend along the Hudson. Saratoga Lake forms a portion 

 of the western boundary. Fish Creek, the outlet of the lake, which 

 flows through the northern part of the town, has several fine mill 

 sites along its course. The mineral springs, known as " Quaker 

 Springs," issue from the Hudson River slate in a ravine a little 

 southeast of the center of the town. They contain lime, magnesia, 

 and iron with carbonic gas and salts of soda. The soil north of 

 Fish Creek is light and sandy, and in the remaining parts of 

 the town it is a gravelly or silty loam. 



Products: Hay, potatoes, oats, rye, dairy products, poultry 



and apples. 

 Average values of farm land range from $30 to $80 per acre. 



Saratoga Springs : The surface is rolling or moderately hilly. 

 An extended tract lying north of Saratoga Lake, along the course 

 of Owl Pond Creek, is low and swampy. The far-famed mineral 

 springs, which give to the town its name, are situated about three 

 miles northwest of Saratoga Lake. They are near the center of 

 the mineral springs region, which has a radius of nearly ten miles. 

 The soil is an inferior quality of yellowish, sandy loam. 



Products : Corn, oats, hay, rye, buckwheat, potatoes and truck 

 crops. 



Average values of farm land range from $5 to $100 an acre. 



Stillwater: The surface is uneven in the south and moder- 

 ately high in the north. A range of bluffs 6 to 100 feet hie:h 

 borders on the intervales of the Hudson and Anthony's Kill. 

 The streams are generally small brooks flowing in deep gullies 

 worn in the drift, deposits. The soil is alluvial in the river inter- 



