[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] regions, some from one hundred, two hundred and three hundred miles, to replace the consumption." From 1825 to 1850 there was an average of five thou-sand head of horned cattle annually fattened in this district for the New Y'ork markets. There were also kept at this period large flocks of sheep, and the wool crop was no inconsiderable source of revenue to the farmer. There are no certain means of arriving at the values of these productions in this early time, but one fact may be mentioned as exhibiting a slight in-dication. TheCroton turnpike was organized in 1807, running from southeast directly through Somers to Sing Sing. It was the main highway to the markets of New Y'ork. Through the gates of this turnpike sheep were passed free of toll and cattle at twenty-live per cent, discount. These latter were charged by the score. At one of the gates on this high road two drov-ers alone paid one hundred and fifty dollars in the year 1839, while the total receipts, over one-half of which were for cattle, from this one gate, for the same year, were five hundred and eighty-six dollars, thus SOMERS.