ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT OF FARMS IN PENNSYLVANIA. 
The principal market is Grove City, though a few farmers sell 
some of their produce in Harrisville, Mercer, and New Castle, Pa. 
Railway transportation is furnished by the Bessemer & Lake Erie 
and the Pennsylvania Railroads. There are a few miles of macadam 
road. The Pittsburgh and Erie and the Pittsburgh and Franklin 
roads, which are kept in somewhat better condition than the average 
country road, run through portions of the area. 
The region has been settled for about 100 years, and the type of 
farming is general in nature. Until the establishment of the cream- 
ery, general crop and live-stock farming prevailed. Since that time, 
however, much more attention has been given to dairying. The 
leading crops, from the standpoint of acreage, according to the 
Fig. 2.— View showing typical topography of region. 
United States Census reports, have been hay, oats, corn, wheat, and 
buckwheat, arranged in order of acreage, and the relative proportion 
of the total crop acreage devoted to these crops has changed but 
little. Similar data show that there has been but little change in the 
proportion of the different classes of live stock. 
THE GROVE CITY CREAMERY.i 
In May, 1915, the Dairy Division of the United States Department 
of Agriculture organized and began to operate a creamery at Grove 
City. (See fig. 3.) This creamery has been very successful. Be- 
cause of the excellence of the products manufactured, patrons have 
received good prices for their milk. 
Indirectly the creamery has been of benefit to the community in 
that it has served to maintain at a more stable level throughout the 
See "How Dairying Built Up a Community," Yearbook Separate 65. 
