The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1897-07-22
FERTILE LANCASTER.
The Banner County or the United Sta
In thr NAluc az Its !nrn IroIucts.

In the Value of Its Farm Products.
There has been much rivalry anon
counties in various states over The claim
of superior fertility and productive
ness. I lac Ian g"st agricultural couu
~ in each state concerned makes claim
to supremacy in this regard IL claim
sustained IN the cas-" of many western
counties by much valuable oratory. lie
Gently AN authentic statement of the
agricultural products of the severa .
states made its appearance, and it
shows that the banner county of the
United States, so far as agricultural
products are concerned, is Lancaster
county, Pa.
The farms of that famed and bcauti-
full county of southern PENNSYLVANIA.
on In" Susquehanna river border line,
yielded, in the wear recorded. produce
To the amount of S~,tOO,OO0. Next in the
value of agricultural products is ST.
Lawrence county, y. y. with total OF
$G,000.OO0 though the comparison is
hardly Il fair one. because the area OF
st. Lawrence is three times as large as
the area of Lancaster. The value col
loctiNcly of the farms of st. Lawrence.
county is S32.O00.OO0, while those o.
Lancaster are valued at $4,000, 900
Lancaster has much better ra iroad cor
nections than ST. Lawrence, ana, more
over, is closer to a desirable market for
agricultural products. Third on the
list of fertile American counties
is Chester, Pa, which has an cnvia-
BILE record for chickens and dairy prod.
uce. II adioins Lancaster county tt
the east, being nearer Philadelphia. 1t
is smaller by about 2j per cent. than
Lancaster. and yielded last year s., 500
900 in agricultural products.
Still further to the east in pennsvl.
vania, but beyond the Philadelphia line,
IL Bucks county, noted for it's market
gardening, and producing in year S.,
100000 of agricultural products. Bucks
county is Gl0 square miles in land area
but il very nearly equals in the Weld al
its farms the most fertile and pro.
ductiyc of the New England counties.
Worcester, Mass, the products of which,
according To the table at hand, were
$500, 900 Il year ago. Worcester county
is literally in the middle of MaSsachu-
sets, for it extends clear through the
state, i'll the most central part, from the
New Hampshire boundary line ON the
north and the Connecticut and RHODE
Island boundary on the south. 1t is an
important agricultural coUnty-tnc
most important in New England -but
is larger as has been seen, than any of
the fertile Pennsylvania counties with
which il ranks in value of products
The sixth of the very productive farm
ing counties of the United States is
toluSa county, Cal. In area it is larger
than the three Pennsylvania counties
together, and has Il record of $500, 900
of agricultural produce. Colusa count,
is in the northern part of the state, and
it is not supposed by any patriotic Ca!
ifornian that the time is or can be very
far distant when it viii rank at the heaa
of all the counties of the United States.
even though now it is the last of those
which have passed the $1,000. 900 mark
in the products of their farms in a
single year. When the reports from the
Missouri, Kansas and Nebraska wheat
farms are in this year IL claim for a
place where near the top may be
made, but the fact is that corn-grov ing
lively low upon the list when compared
with those whose products are much
diversiiied.-N. y. Sun.