. History of Columbia County, New York. With illustrations and biographical sketches of some of its prominent men and pioneers . and loam have by careful culti-vation been made highly productive. Formerly consider-able grain was produced for sale. Wheat was raised withsuccess in early times; in later years rye, corn, and the present time hay and fruit constitute the principalexports. The former is shipped largely to New York byan arrangement of tlie farmers themselves,—securing cityprices with light expense for freight. Fruit has been raisedsuccessfully, and is now the leading industry
. History of Columbia County, New York. With illustrations and biographical sketches of some of its prominent men and pioneers . and loam have by careful culti-vation been made highly productive. Formerly consider-able grain was produced for sale. Wheat was raised withsuccess in early times; in later years rye, corn, and the present time hay and fruit constitute the principalexports. The former is shipped largely to New York byan arrangement of tlie farmers themselves,—securing cityprices with light expense for freight. Fruit has been raisedsuccessfully, and is now the leading industry of the quantities of pears, plums, cherries, grapes, and ber-ries are annually produced, and are of excellent by the river, with but little land-carriage, theyreach the city markets in fine condition. This class of fruitexceeds the apple crop, though the latter is good. There are no manufacturing enterprises of any import-ance in town. It is a tradition of the people that, throughsome management of other interested parties, the originalintended grant of ten thousand acres was changed to six.
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