710 AOEIOULTUSAL M A a UAL 



A branch of the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad 

 connects the main line at Owego with Ithaca. This branch, which 

 received the second charter granted in New York State, was bnilt 

 to connect the Susquehanna River with Oayuga Lake. 



Electric Roads 

 An electric road to Elmira extends from Waverly in the south- 

 western part of the comity, another line running from Waverly to 

 Athens in Pennsylvania. 



I in proved Highways 



The trunk line of macadam road from New York to Buffalo 

 passes through the county along the line of the Susquehanna 

 River, a branch leading from Owego to Ithaca. State and county 

 macadam roads also run through the valley from Owego north 

 through Newark Valley, Barker, and Richford to Ithaca, Cort- 

 land. Auburn, and Syracuse. 



The total completed improved highways equal GG miles, with 

 12 miles still under construction. 



AVAILABLE MARKETS 



The principal local markets are Waverly and Sayre, and the 

 neighboring point of Athens, in Pennsylvania, with a total popu- 

 lation of about 10,000. Other markets are Owego village, and, 

 for the eastern part, the city of Binghamton. 



Scranton and Pittsburgh furnish excellent markets for potatoes, 

 cabbage, hay. and buckwheat. Train loads of milk are sent daily 

 over the Lehigh railroad to New York and Philadelphia and over 

 the Erie and Lackawanna to New York. Fully three-fourths of 

 the milk produced is sold as market milk. Manufactured dairy 

 products include 1*4 million pounds of condensed milk and some 

 whole milk cheese. 



The agricultural organizations are as follows : 

 Berkshire Poultry Association. 



Berkshire Cooperative Dairymen's Association, Inc. 

 Big Island Community Club. 



Chemung County National Farm Loan Association. 

 First Tioga Dairy Improvement Association. 

 Granges: Pomona and 8 subordinate granges. 

 Northern Tioga Agricultural Society. 



