New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-07-13
NORTHEASTERN NETWORK.
Farming, Crops, &c.

Ediior. Correspondence Of Ths N. Y. Tribune
oGDENsBURGB St Lawrence Co, NY Fh'Oy July 1853
did not expect to find Saratoga model County in
Farmng-DOr indeed, is it-but on the light, warm,
sandy soil which the great plain surrounding the
Springs, as forward and promising Indian Corn,
Potatoes, Oats, &c, as have seen elsewhere 10 the
State There poor and backward fields interspersed
and many superatye specimens of shiitless, miserable
cultivation yet think the vegetation OF low land at
Saratoga is forward tho average as that of West
chester The hills are, of course, considerably later.
1t is unfortunate for the agricultural reputation Of
our State that the main tide Of American travel sweeps
through that valley, whereof Tom Moore wrote some
fifty years ago that
Prom rise ofmoin to set OF
I've s3ou the mighty Mohawk Uu,"
Slow times were those Ho started from Albany below
the mouth of the Mohawk after breakfast yesterday
and train far beyond the head springs OF that
not very mighty river within six hours thereafter
But, as vas SAY ing,
All the world travel through the valley of the No
hawk Every one can that if the interyaes of that
river are not naturally fertile, then We have no good
land And o such significant Corn, such feeble POta-
toes such sunted Oats such struggling Grass,
most of that Valley especially below Fonda, wOeul
to see. They look if the inhabitants finding them
selves possessors Of rich soil had resolved il should
support hem in fashion without labor; which 1t
partly did for time but broke down IN the effort l
don't know another section of the State, and believe
there is not township, so badly farmed as this
Hence thousands will derive an impression most unia-
vorabe and unjust TO the actual condition of farm hus-
bandry in State Can nothing be done 10 induce the
farmers Of the Mohawk Valley, for their fellow citizens
sake il not for their own, 20 put their land in better
heart and deserve better crops from it,
Above Fonda the average appearance ia better, Yet
not what IL should be, even in Oneida County They
seem TO have suffered from drouth through the entire
Valley they have farther North But the South part
of Jefferson County, along the Rome and Watertown
Railroad looks well aud is doing well. Though farther
North and incining nOthward the Corn is much heavier
through that part of Jefferson than along the Mohawk
"a 4 - Al I'D n
errly look well here, and there are many fields OF
Wheat "a scarce article farther Souh) which though
rather short in the straw stands thick the ground ami
will Yield fairly. Northwest Of Watertown (to Cape
Vincent 81 miles, the soil is far less ayOraOle-a thin
stratum of clay resting nearly level surface OF lime
stone easily parched with drvuth Gas this year, aud al
most whoy devoted 10 Grass ] suppose its present
cutiystors live without very hard aborOn this land but
would with difficulty subSiSt dense population.
ST. Lawrence has suffered considerably from drouth
but the little have seen of the growing crops looks
fairly Grass will be light for want OF seasonable ram
and Grass is heavy item here where Cattle aud Butter
are among the NEST important aud profitable products
but Wheat is considerably grown aud looks thrifty Corn
stands fai and Potatoes which extensively planted
promise a good harvest. This County subscribed
$250OOO toward the construction of the Ogdensburgh
Railroad and intelligent citizen assures me that esti-
mating this as entirely sunk. IL has already been
than repaid in the increased prices obtained Tor
Potatoes alone. St Lawrence produces the Potato ia
great abundance, and It's average price here has been
nearly quite doubled by the Railroad which opens to
il the ample markets of Boston and the New-England
manufactures
The Ogdebsburgh Road is most important and be-
nefcent work which has thus far proved advantageous
10 ell concerned except its stockholders IL
most admirably constructed-of course expensiyely-
and il has hitherto been rather eApenSvely managad
It's friends nov anticipate material retrenchments ia it's
running expenses calculated to bring its stockholders
ere long within sight Of dividend. trust they may
not bedsappOnted for they have richly deserved prompt
returns and good ones
Ogdens burph had population Of about 5000 in lS50
and has since increased under the impulse Of the Rail
road about 900 per annum This ratio viii give it
rs 600 in 1860 aud % 900 in 1870 and think t Will not
come short Of these figures The location combines
rare beauty with eminent heahfulness and sinoe the
completion of the Ralroad) the elements OF an exten
siye trade The County is very large aud fertile aud
lis trade eenters here; while Canada gust across tue
st Lawrence is every year increasing her trade with
tLis point. Several large FIGURING Mills are here To-
Gated ON the Osweeatehe, just above its mouth Car
Factory and Machine Shop have been established as ad
iuncts 10 the Railroad and extensive Improvements are
10 progress BY which the eatire waterfront 90 the 81
lawrence from the present Railroad Depot TO the
nou,b Of the Oswegatchie, nearly half mile will
he Allied in for considerable distance, carrying the
Rs,Iros0 ND 10 the FIGURING Mills and making room
or SPLENDID row of stores with one froot on
he iron tract and the other on the ST. Lawrence.
,th such depth Of water that the largest Lake cfst