The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1851-06-18
Only $25
ssiili For a Homestead
% FARMS, worth over $500, and
6,40OLOTs,t to be distributed among 800
Suhsnrihers

6,400L0TS, to be distributed among 800
Subscribers
To supply tie demand for the Lots and
Farms at Hcrmanhvile, have laid out anoth-'
er tract, adjoining the long Island Railroad
md the land alfesdy sold at Hermannville, to
be of the same size, and disposed Of and divi-'
ded among The purchasers in the same man
ner as those recently sold here.
have been induced 10 do this from the great
number Of persons wishing TO pnIthase these
Lots and Fans, as the improvements IN tina
part of the Island are constantly increasing,
and large numbers oi persons have now become
| Interested in those lands This addition al tract
| is in every respect equal To The other, and at
| the rate they are now being taken they will all
| he sold in a short time. About $50 shares are
| now subscribed
| Each subscriber is entitled 10 s Tots, 25 by
| 100 feet. lying together or a FARM Of from
| 1 to 20 acres. The shares are limited al S25
payable, IS when subscribed for, 80 on or
before the day of distribution, and the balance
| in monthly inslalmenis Of So. II desired, a
WARRANTED Deed will he made ohtimIhediaiely
| after the distribution, and delivered directly
| after paying the balance.
| The Lots are situated in the village ri FER
| MANNVlLLE, on the Long Island Railroad
! County OF Suffolk, and so miles from the City
Of New York, and adjoins Lakeland, also a
new village, recently laid ont, where hand, ONE
| buildings are erected.
ted Stales and wthis one mile of Ronkonk-
| onia Lake, a beautiful sheet Of wafer, about
| three miles In circumference, of singular tTans'
parency ard OF great depth. with an abun-'
| lance Of fish. The village is but miles dis
liant fl ON the great South Bav which is five
miles wide and 40 miles long, aLnndanlly sup
piled with oysters, clans, and fish Of various
kinds.
These lands will produce as much per acre;
with the same cultivation. as any land within
fifty miles o! the city Of New York.
LONG ISLAND WnEAT.-At the annual
meeting of the New York Agricultural Socie--
", held at Albany, on the POL inst. for award--
ing premiums on Field Crops, we find Suffolk
| County stands second beSt-no slight honor
in raising wheat. Mr. Samuel L. Thompson,
If SeiauKet. received the second premium OF
Sl5, for Winter Wheat, IL bushels | peck to
the acre. Mr. Thompson'S wheat is variety
which has been raised bit few years on The
island and the Weld proves ii well adapted 10
the soil, &c. The agricultural cariciiieS OF
Long Island are beginning to be developed. -
Long Islander.
Setauket is about miles from this land
(Iermannville) and is no better by nature
than these lands nov offered for sale This
wheat is a new variety of superior kind and
was sold Tor seed wheat al SO per bushe and
Mr.. Thompson received for the product of a
little more than two acres, over $500
There have been raised during the past sea-
|
bushels per acre, Egg Plants, and n variety Of
garden vegetables, on land near the Long Is
r land Railroad at Lake Road, or Lakeland,
b where a Post Office has been established, for
3, which premiums at the Suffolk County Agri-
j, cultural Fair held September Oath, 1850 were
c given. Also peas, beans, onions, squaShesf
s pumpkins, beeis, and tomatoes
! The following is from the New York Farme
>. and Mechanic of Novepter 7h, 1850, and wax
4 written bv MI Starr the editor who visited the
= lands. The wheat, potatoes, and crops, re-
. erred TO In the article, were raised at Lake
LAND near iicrmannville Station
Having few hUursnesurc during the past
week, we were conveyed over the Long Island
Railroad, 10 a large tract OF the country, about
fifty miles from New York, which we md 10 be-
capable of very successful and profitable Guilt
L walton. Although late in the season, and view
n ed under some disadvantage, We were surpris~
ed at the quality and abundance II The crops
which had been gathered IRON portion OF the
land. as also the winter crops, which appeared
# unusually promising. Wheat, which had been
r sown hui iw1or three weeks. presented a beau
d tilul thrifty appearance while iurnips, beeis
and other vegetables not yet gathered for win
!. ter use would compare advantageOusly with
;, the best in the New York market. Potatoes.
n already in the cellar, were very fine without
vesti,e of disease and corn standing in the field
was not surpassed by much that we saw on
. lands valued al more than one hundred dollars
per acre Indeed, the vegetables which re-
ceived the premium AT the Suffolk County Fair,
were raised from portion OF this ground which
= had not been under cultivation six months,
Altogether we were very iaVorably impressed
with our visit to these lands, now so favorably.
offered 10 The public, at prices which cannot
! fail 10 double in few years and We would in
l. wife the attention of those who desire cheap
and eligible ia rm, 10 this location"
| Hermannville Station is located on the hor<
derS of the Long Island Railroad whence cars
run several times day 10 Brooklyn and New
York The surface of the land is smooth and
level and the surrounding country is poriectfN
healthy and within q few miles of this place,
highly cultivated and valuable, having been
settled for more than a hundred and fifty years,
and where similar lands sell at from $50 10
5000 per acre.
The LANDS are as good as represented, anlas
, good as any new land on the Island, and when
=" cultivated will produce in the highest degree.
y The land was once heavily tfMbered some
, portions are now covered with thrifty growth
of young wood, oak and pine. Wood is piesiy,
and generally cheap in that part Of the Island.
Fre-wood is cheap that which is suitable 10
be cut into eord-wood, Tor the New York mar
c ket, is Of uniform Price, and has, for great
| many years, been considered cash alueie on
=. the Island
. There is ma erial on the land for comtnon
e fencih good chestnut rails can be had with
y in few miles of these lands in abundance. All
building materials can he had 4 The derots of
= BROOKLYN and Greenpori, and at many inter-
mediate places, at The ususl marker prices.
There n re numerous streams Of water rising in
these new lands, and cunning into the great
South Bay, which are remarkable for their pu-
rity, and never fail-indeed, dry weather makes
/, very little change in them, they are untail;ng;
and wells are of various dephs-probahly, over
these new lands in the middle region Of the Is
land, the average depth will be about % feet;
I at Hermannville, As the ground is higher, they
are deeper Subscribers are ret compelled 10
build.
There are now churches and schools within
two or three miles Of the village, and within
four miles, mills, factories, stores. and villages.
All The privileges Of an old setlled country ire
to be had here and the people Of Suffolk
County pride themselves on being highly
moral orderly, and religious people. All ofmy
. | subscribers are -. sons OF responsibility.
The land can b. cry easily cleared and The cost Of
settlement will pend entirely upon the settler he
Jay out - much little a. he chooses 40 know
ment and the labor and indu-tiy which make sur
ces, aud prosperous settlements other parts Of tie
country, bestowed upon these lands cannot fail 10
| duce favorable results.
The climate is IN every particular healthy and plcas-
an,-the roads good aud always pRssahc nj AL
sous Of the year-the winters are short and mild, enm
mn, sd 10 tho winters tho msin II The moth Of the
| Northumberland is seldom scighing more than two
| three weeks on the Island
| What il remarkable crop is sedhm Injured nv
ronrhtthere part of the country where there "
so htlr injury e ON drought Long leland nor ~
there nm injury ffon ket-ihere Is wet or cold land
| on the Island Al the land aong the margin ~ Tho
streams he made highly valuable al smAu cost ior
there is no such thing hood or ffc,he ~ "a tho into
ror mart Of the country by which Omen very great dam
age /. done such the carrying of bridge
r. L al lie mIFE la