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generally bordered by steep slopes rising to a height of about 300 

 feet. The valleys are best adapted to tillage and the hills to 

 pasturage. 



DESCRIPTION BY TOWNSHIPS 

 [ hwxESBUROH : The surface is an upland broken by the narrow 

 valleys and gullies of small streams. The hills bordering on 

 Schoharie Crook and Normans Kill are steep and in some places 

 rocky. The town is well adapted to dairying. The soil is prin- 

 cipally a stiff clay loam with a slight intermixture of gravel. 



Products: Dairy products, hay, oats, buckwheat and fruit. 

 Average values of farm land range from $15 to $50 an acre. 



Glenville : The surface is broken and hilly in the central and 

 western parts, the hills rising 800 to 1,000 feet or more above 

 sea level. The eastern part is nearly level. The soil among the 

 hills is a stiff clay underlaid by hardpan with an occasional out- 

 cropping of slate. In the eastern part it is a sandy and gravelly 

 loam. The Mohawk intervales are very fertile. 



Products: Dairy products, hay, oats, fruit and buckwheat. 

 Average values of farm land range from $10 to $50 an acre. 



Niskayuna: The surface is mostly an upland with steep bluffs 

 rising from the river valley. The intervales are very rich and 

 productive. A strip of land about one mile wide, extending back 

 from the summits of the bluffs, has a hard clay soil, and a con- 

 siderable portion of it is swampy and not well adapted to cultiva- 

 tion. Through the south the soil is sandy. 



Products: Garden crops and small fruits. 



Average values of farm land range from $50 to $100 an acre. 



PumCETOWH : The surface is a broken upland gently descend- 

 ing toward the southeast. It is well adapted to grazing. The 

 soil is a heavy clay loam underlaid by hardpan. 



Products: Dairy products, hay, oats, buckwheat and fruit. 

 Average values of farm land range from $15 to $60 an acre. 



Rotterdam : The surface is broken and hilly in the northwest, 

 a level intervale extending from the center toward the south, and 



