[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] is produced, of the best quality, while the hillsides grow a sweet, nutritious grass that is eminently con-ducive to the production of the dairy products and fatted cattle. In this, as in the adjoining towns in the northern tier, the principal occupation of the agricultural portion of the community is the produc-tion of milk for the New York market. Previous to the advent of the railroad, however, it was different, and mixed farming was the rule, instead of, as now, the exception. Then, by market-wagon twice a week, or once a fortnight by private farm-wagons, the butter, cheese, eggs, etc., wer carried to the Hudson River, at Sing Sing or Peekskill, and from thence shipped by sloop to New York, while the fatted cattle found purchasers in the numerous drovers who passed through this vicinity. It was on this basis that the older residents paid for their lands and became comparatively wealthy. Substantial farm-houses are to be seen in every direction through-out the township, surrounded by well cultivated and thrifty farms. The statistics of the town show that the culminat-ing point of legitimate agricultural production was about 1850, since which time all the tendency has been