There are 40,462 acres in woodland and forest, and 11,464 acres in old fields and other unimproved lands.

The value of farms, including land, fences and buildings, is set down at $33,264,505. That of farming improvements and machinery at $597,892; of live stock at $1,805,838. The cost of building and repairing ferries, in 1879, was $129,336 ; that of fertilizers purchased during the same year, $48,645, The estimated value of all farm productions sold, consumed or on hand, for 1879, was $2,544,041.

The live stock of the county and its productions in

WESTCHESTER COUNTY

AT THE PRESENT DAY.

the year 1879 were as follows : Horses, 6919; mules and asses, 40 ; working oxen, 2418; milch cows, 19,168; other cattle, 5302 ; sheep, exclusive of spring lambs, 1646; swine, 8207; wool, spring clip of 1880, 6069 lbs. ; milk sold in 1879, or sent to cheese and butter factories, 5,637,072 gallons ; butter made on farms, 616,825 lbs. ; cheese made on farms 2540 lbs.

Cereal productions : Barley, 84 acres produced 2094 bushels; buckwheat, 1101 acres, 13,464 bushels ; Indian corn, 11,131 acres, 377,357 bushels ; oats, 9004 acres, 238,509 bushels; rye, 4038 acres, 55,130 bushels ; wheat, 1582 acres, 22.698 bushels. There were also produced in 1879, 300 tons flax-straw and 10 lbs. maple sugar; 63,408 acres of hay were mown, yielding 69,221 tons.

There were on hand, June 1, 1880, exclusive of spring hatching, 116,782 barn-yard fowls and 7506 other poultry. The number of eggs produced in 1879 was 662,672 dozens ; 13,475 pounds of honey and 363 pounds of wax were gathered in 1879 ; 3 acres cultivated in tobacco yielded 1825 pounds; 326,092 bushels Irish potatoes were raised on 3876 acres.