From Historical Rutland: an illustrated history of Rutland, Vermont, from the granting of the charter in 1761 to 1911 by Rev. F. E. Davison, Rutland, Vt.: P.H. Brehmer, 1911, page 8:
Agriculture
The upland is filled with lime-stone, the low lands abound with clay. The intervale lands on the Creek are of a deep rich soil and produce excessive crops of hay and Indian corn; but, unfortunately for the husbandman, the Indian corn is often cut off by the frost. The uplands produce wheat, rye, oats, barley, beans, peas, hemp and flax.