The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1851-07-02
aaIlA For on a Homestead ~~o
% FARMS, worth over $500, and
6,400L0Ts, to he distributed among 800
Suhscrihers.

OstOO EG hAbbiADNANh NAtiJBtl WV
Subscribers
To supply the demand fJr tie lots and
Farms at Hcrnannvillr, have laid out anoth-
er tract, adjoining the Long Island Railroad
and the land already sold at Ilermnnnvilc, TO
be of the same size, and disposed Of and divi-
ded among the purchasers in the same man.
ncr as those recently sold here.
have been induced 10 do this from the great
number of persons wishing 10 purchase these
Lots and Farms, as the Improvements in tina
parl Of the Island are constantly Increasing,
and large numbers Of persons have how become
interested in those lands, This additional tract
is in every respect cgtial 10 the other, and al
the rate they are now being taken they will all
he sold In a SHIRT time. About $50 shares afo
now subscribed.
Each subscriber is entitled 10 8 lots, 25 Nv
100 feet, lying together, or a FARM of from
4 to 20 acres. The shares are limited HI S25
payable, SIS %hen subscriI ed for, 30 TN OF
before the day of distribution, and the balanto
in monthly insalments bi So. 1f desired, a
Wafrantee Deed will lie made oft Immediately
after the disuibuliuh ahd delivered difettly
after paying the balance,
The Lots are situated in the village If HER
MEANWHILE, on the Long Island Railroad,
County OF Suffolk, and so miles from the CITY
Of New York. and adjoinS Lakeland, also Il
new village. recently laid ont, where handsome
buildings are erected.
II is one of the heathies places In the ULis
ted States, and within one mile Of Ronkonks
onia Lake. beautiful sheet Of wafer, about
three miles in circumference OF singular trans
parency and oil great depth, with an alum
dance of FISH. The village is but miles dis
tant from the great South Bay, which is FIVE
miles wide and 40 miles long, abundanily SIM
piled with oysters, clans, and fish of various
kinds.
These lands will produce as much per acre.
l.. al
fifty miles o! the city of New York.
"LoNo ISLAND WHEAT.-At the annual
meeting of The New York Agricultural Socie>
ly, held at Albany, on the ooh inst, for award
ing premiums on Field Crops, we find Suffolk
County stands second best-no slight honor
in raising wheat. Mr.. Samuel /. Thompson;
Of SetauRet received the second premium Of
SIS, for Winter Wheat, 10 bushels peek 10
| The acre. Mr.. Thompson's wheat Is variety
which has been raised but few wears on the
Island and the yield proves it well adapted 10
the soil, &c. The agricultural capacities Of
Long Island are beginning 10 be developed" -
Long Islander.
| Setnukct is about miles from this land
| (1ermannviile), and Is no better by nature
| than these lands nov offered for safe. This
wheat is a new variety of superior kind, and
| was sold for seed wheat al So per bushcl, and
| Mr.. Thompson received i)r the product Of a
little more than two acres. over SiOO
| There have been raised during the past sea.
son, the very best OF Corn, and Potatoes $50
bushels per acre, Egg Plants, and variety Of
garden vegetables, on land near the Long Is
land Railroad, at Lake Road, or Lakeland
where Post Office has been established, for
which premiums at the Suffolk County Agri-
| cultural Fair, held September Gath, 1880 were
given Also peas, beans, onions, squaShcs,
| pumpkins, beets and tomatoes.
| The following is from the New York Farfne
| nj Mschapic of No,arnbor IN ISh0 nd
written by Mr.. Starr the editor, who visited the
lands. The wheat potatoes and crops, re-
| ferred TO in the article, were raised al Lake
lan' near Hermannville Station
Having few hours'esure during the past
week, we were conveyed over the Long Island
| Railroad, 10 large tract Of the county, about
| fifty miles from New York, whichwe find 10 he
| capable of very successful and profitable Guilt
| walton. Although late in the season, and view
4 ed under some disadvantage, We were suTpTis.
| ed at the quality and abundance II the crops
| which had been gathered from portion OF the
| land, as also the winter crops, which appeared
unusually promising. Wheat, which had been
sown but twoor three weeks. presented beau
| tiiul Thrifty appearance; while turnips, bects
and other vegetables not yet gathered for win
| ter use would compare advantageously with
| the best in the New York market. Potatoes,
already in the cellar, were very fine,without a
veslige of disease, aud corn standing in the field
| was not surpassed by much that We saw on
lands valued at more Than one hundred dollars
| per acre. Indeed, the vegetables which re-
| ceved the premium al the Suffolk County Fair,
were raised from portion oil this ground which
| had not been under cultivation six months.
| Altogether We were very iavorsbly impressed
with our visit to these lands, now so fayorahly
offered to the public, a, prices which cannot
| fail 10 double in few years, and we would in
| wife the attention of those who desire cheap
1 md eliUtblp IA m n This lor atipn "
| Hermannvile Station is located on the bor.
| ders Of the Long Island Railroad, whence cars
run several times day to Brooklyn and New
| York. The surface Of the land is smooth and
level. aud the surrounding country is pcriecil'
| healthy, and within q few miles Of This Place,
| highly cultivated and valuable, having been
| settled for more Than hundred and fifty wears,
| and where similar lands sell al from $50 10
$500 per acre.
| The LANDS arc as good as represented, and as
| good as any new land on the island and when
cultivated, will produce in the highest degree.
a The land was once heavily timbered some
! portions are now covered with thrifty growth
| OF young wood, oak and pine. Wood is plenty,
! and generally cheap in that part of the Island.
| t'ire-wood is cheap that which is suitable TO
| be cut into cord wood Tor the New York mar
kei is Of uniform price, and has, for great
many years, been considered cash Article on
the Island.
There is ma ieral on the land for common
lencik g--good chestnut rails can be had with
in a few miles of these lands in abundance. All
building materials can he had at the depots OF
BROOKLYN and Greenporl, and al many inter.
| mediate places, at The ususl market prices
There IRE numerous streams OF water rising in
these new lands, and running into the great
South Bay, which are einarkahle for their Du-
rity, and never fail-indeed, dry weather makes
very little change in them, they are unlailing
and wells are of various depths-probahly,oy
these new lands, in the middle region of The Is
land, the average depth will be about 25 feet;
at Hermannville, as the ground is higher, they
are deeper. Subscribers are not compelled 10
build.
There aIe 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 settled country are
TO he had here and the people of Suffolk
County pride themselves on heing highly
moral orderly, and religious people. al ofmy
subscribers are'|' sons OF responsibility.
The land eanb' @fy easily cleared. and the cost Of
settlement will pend sntirey upon the settler; can
ay out much little A. he chooses. do know
VI any objections 10 the place the land for settle
nent and the same labor and Industry which make sue
ressu and prosperous settlements other parts uf the
eounry bestowed upon these lands, cannot fail to pro-
duce favorable results
The climate Is Ia every particular healthy and pleas
,nt-the roads good aud Away, pEssahle Mt all
sons Of the year-he winters arc short and mild,
cd 10 the winters the maiu TO The north Of The
hghlsnds-lhere ia seldom sleghing more than or
three weeks on the bland.
What is remarkable, a crop is seldom Injured by
roughtthore no part Of the country where rhrre
so lt1s injury hom drought Long Island nor H.
there my injury hom Nethere is no wet or cold land
On the Island An the land along the margin Of The
streams can he made highly valuable small cost for
such thing flood ffo' het the int.
ior part Of the country by which Omen very dam
age done such event AZ the carrying OF bridge
the breaking Of mill dam nth drmare, isaI-
most unhrard Of on Long Isand hcsireams and hays