Bushels Acres Bushels Acres Bushels Acres Bushels harvested. sown. harvested. sown. harvested. sown. harvested. POTATOES. PEAS. BEANS. COUNTIES. Acres sown. Bushels Acres Bushels Acres Bushels harvested. planted. harvested. planted. harvested. Acres Bushels Acres Bushels sown. harvested. planted. harvested. 21 235 1,948 54,179 3,089 368,243 174 31 1,180 28 1,808 3 6,299 21,224 13,852 337,685 4,089 291,135 383 33,444 203 645 22,282 79 1,325 1,555 43,037 315 21,739 7 410 1 166 55 1,382 planted. harvested. of apples. of cider, cultivated. products. 212 31,001 54 .... 27 2,060 1,414 157 $273,552 66,000 562 84,544 39 4,481 300 .... .... 3,346 29 3,186 337,503 28 ... 563 104,183 1 304 27,800 427 1,403 226,269 1 300 1 1 304 31,228 456 4,944 $697,088 COUNTIES. lands per acre. acres taxed as Whole number of Price of farm Aggregate valu- State Assessors ation of farm valuation of real returned by sulands. estate in villapervisors. ges and of corporations. TABLE B. Digest of Facts by State Assessors for Board of Equalization. AG. TRANS.] C. TABLE showing population, banking capital, local assessors' valuation of real estate for 1861, and the rate per capita of banking capital; also of personal estate, and the excess of personal estate per capita over bank capital, as well as the rate per capita of the equalized value of real estate, and of local assessors' valuation of the same. Population for Bank capital, Local assessors' Rate per ea-Rate per capita of Rate per capita Rate per capita of Rate per capita of census. valuation of real estate, as returned by supervisors, 1861. pita of bank capital. personal estate, of personal es as returned by the supervisors, 1861. equalized real estate, 1862. real estate, according to local assessors' valuation, 1861. tate over bank ing capital. CHAPTER VI. GROUP II: Counties-Boundaries-Topography-Scenery-Wealthy Men Seeking Homes-Suburb of New York-Mineral Resources-Counties Described-Columbia, Dutchess, Putnam, Rensselaer, Washington, Westchester-Area-Population-Aggregate Valuations-Value of Farms per Acre-Average Capital in Farms-Miles of Traffic Routes-Distribution of Land-In Grass-In Tillage-Quantity of Crops-Value-Straw-Once Wheat Land-Not Now-Crops not what should be-Rye staple Crop-Potatoes-Flax leading Crop-AnimalsDo Products-Value-Surplus Vegetable Products-Value-Proportion-Cattle-Agriculture-Affect by Markets-General System Bad-Traffic Routes to Square Miles-AppendixAgricultural Statistics-Tax Values-Financial. GROUP II Counties: Columbia, Dutchess, Putnam, Rensselaer, Washington, Westchester-6. This group embraces all the territory of the eastern part of the State which bounds upon the States of Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont, and extends from the Hudson river at the south to near the junction of lake George and lake Champlain in the north, and is bounded on the west nearly the whole distance by the Hudson river. It is not far from 175 miles long by twenty-five broad. It has mountains on the east nearly the whole distance, embracing the Taghkanic range, while it has the highlands and parts of the mountains of the Catskill group, extending across from east to west. In its topography it may be termed a broken and hilly region, at many points running into a mountain tract, susceptible of pasturage and broken cultivation over nearly the whole surface. Along the Hudson river the shores are usually rocky bluffs, sloping inland, but a small portion of the surface can be considered level; yet a large surface is capable of cultivation. The counties are similar in their soil and topography, and are properly embraced in one group, as they have no portion of the State wherewith they properly assimilate. The scenery is excelled in no country for its grandeur, beauty and great variety. The mountains of the other groups, adjoining it to the west, which are ever visible from its hills and plains; its own mountains always beautiful in their outline, and often assuming proportions of magnificence in their aggregate massing; a river unsurpassed for the beauty of the views it presents in its ever changing scenery; an interior diversified by hill and dale, embracing at almost every turn landscapes unrivalled for their richness and beautiful variety. These are its natural charms; but art is everywhere busy in adding to them by the softening influence of wealth and cultivated taste. The rocky headlands which so abundantly mark the course of the river, and give such grand views of river and mountain, of lake and hill and dale, are fast becoming the sites for princely mansions, surrounded with all the acquired beauty that unbounded wealth can supply. The wealthy business men of New York are preparing their future homes in this beautiful region, away from the noise and bustle of active city life, and seeking amid its sylvan scenes for that enjoyment of their declining years, which ever comes to the human heart in the contemplation of the |