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American Agriculturist, 
February 10,1923 
The Land of Fur Overcoats 
The Great North Country of New York 
I AM writing this 
letter from St. 
Lawrence County where I am doing a 
week of Farm Bureau Community 
meetings. There are several fairly 
definite and distinct geographical di¬ 
visions of our State—different in .soil, 
topography, climate and agriculture. 
These are the* Champlain Valley, the 
Hudson Valley, the Island, the Central 
Plateau, the Southern Tier, the Finger 
Lake Region, the Ontario Shore and the 
North Country—to say nothing of the 
Adirondack wilderness—the last con¬ 
stituting a really big area of our State 
which is almost ateolutely devoid of 
agriculture. 
It is the North Country of which I 
write. I came here first almost-thirty 
years ago—nominally to attend the 
State Dairymens’ Association at Water- 
town, but more specifically I imagine, 
to visit a youngster who had been a 
boy friend in college and was just then 
Superintendent of Schools at Gouveneur 
—and some how circumstances have de¬ 
creed that for at least a majority of the 
last twenty-five years I have spent from 
of it is on the whole a 
wide and level or gen¬ 
tle rolling plain with a slight slope to¬ 
ward the big river. There is not what 
we would call a really good steep hill 
in all of northern and western St. 
La'wrence and the same is true of Jef¬ 
ferson. Of course the region is long 
on climate and there is a fairly large 
collection of stock jokes relating to the 
weather. I think I have heard most of 
them—among others the statement 
that “snow is not really fit to use until 
it is at least two years old.” Still, I 
think that these jokes rather libel the 
region by overstating the facts. True— 
winter is a real event and sleighing 
is rather dependable, but the elevation 
above sea level is slight and plenty of 
good corn is grown and the silo is 
well-nigh universal. After all—it is 
never a really bad climate if you can 
grow good corn. 
Three Main Agricultural Industries 
The North Country has three main 
agricultural industries. Far and away 
the most important is milk making and 
J. VAN WAGENEN, jR. 
No Fur Overcoats for This Job, Even in the North Country 
a week to a month each year up here in 
agricultural work. 
I feel as if I had come to know and 
understand something of this corner of 
the State. If I were to bound it I would 
say: On the south by Black River, on 
the west and north by Lake Ontario 
the St. Lawrence River and the Do¬ 
minion of Canada, and on the east by 
the Champlain Valley and the Adiron¬ 
dack mountains. It comprises the 
larger-part of Lewis County, most of 
Jefferson and all the arable portions of 
St. Lawrence and Franklin. Perhaps a 
little of Clinton might be added to the 
domain. This may not sound very big, 
but it does make quite a showing on the 
map of the State. St. Lawrence is the 
largest of our 61 counties. It holds al¬ 
most one-tenth of all our dairy cows 
and out of it flow rivers of milk beyond 
computation. Much of Jefferson also 
has a very highly developed dairy in¬ 
dustry. 
An A^dopted Name 
The region is learning to call itself 
“The North Country” aqd to capitalize 
the value of the phrase. The City of 
Watertown advertises itself as “The 
Gateway of the North Country” and the' 
leading hotel proclaims itself “The 
North Country’s Best Tavern for fifty 
years.” Say what you will—there is 
something in a name and the persistent 
reiteration of a phrase or idea. Long 
before the vogue of our very famous 
Dr. Coue and his theory of the cure of 
disease by auto-suggestion, an English¬ 
man wrote a limerick to the effect that 
“There was a young man of Kilpeacon 
Whose nose was as red as a beacon. 
But by saying “It’s white” 
Twenty times day and night. 
He cured it and died an archdeacon.” 
Perhaps if the North Country pro¬ 
claims its advantages loudly enough it 
will be as if it had all of them. 
Some of this region is Adirondack 
foot-hills-rough and steep and not very 
fertile^—not as good as the more rounded 
hills in other parts of the State, Most 
many sections do absolutely nothing 
else. A generation ago it was cheese 
in the southern part of the belt and 
butter up toward the Canadian line. 
Now the trail of the milk shipper is 
over it all, -but many cheese factories 
are still in operation and in many in¬ 
stances the past season these primitive 
cross-roads factories have exceeded the 
pooled price for liquid milk. 
Then down on the very level, heavy 
clays of Jefferson County is a region 
where the timothy plant is especially at 
home. Surely the best clean timothy 
hay in our State comes from here. It 
is a type of farming which reduces 
labor to the minimum and which on 
the whole has in the past, made 
money for the men who have followed 
it, yet I feel that it represents soil 
mining rather than soil conservation 
and in the end the results will be 
disastrous. 
Up in Franklin County and further 
east in Clinton, is a region where the 
potato seems to be at home as almost 
nowhere else—a combination of light 
soil, high altitude and cool seasons 
seeming to render that finicky plant 
almost free from the long list of dis¬ 
eases that in most places make the 
growing of it one long conflict. The 
little village of Chateaugay is said to 
ship more potatoes than any other 
railroad station in the State. 
Of course this region had once, great 
resources of lumber, but the country 
was level and easy to clear, so most 
of it is gone although the Adirondacks 
still continue to contribute forest prod¬ 
ucts, especially pulp wood. • 
Rich in Minerals 
Geologists say that St. La'wrence 
County is a veritable museum of min¬ 
erals and metals—no area of its size 
having a greater, variety. Talc is the 
outstanding mineral product, but 
promising zinc deposits are being 
worked and iron has been mined and 
smelted in a desultory fashion for very 
many years. 
Of course the North Country’s great 
