The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1851-07-16
Only 1875

6,400L0TS, to be distributed among800
Subscribers,
To supply the demand for the Lots and
Farms at Hermannvile have laid out anoth-
er tract, adjoining the long Island Railroad
and the land already sold at Hermannvile, TO
be Of the same size, and disposed of and diyi-
ded among the purchasers in the same man.
ner as those recently sold here.
l have been induced to do this from the great
number of persons wishing TO purchase these
Lots and Farms, as the Improvements in tina
part OF the Island are constantly increasing,
and large numbers of persons have now become
interested in those lands. This additional tract
is in every respect equal TO the other, and at
the rate they are now being taken they will all
be sold in short time. About $50 shares are
now subscribed.
Each subscriber is entitled 10 8 Lots, 25 by
100 feet, lying together, or FARM of from
4 to ~ acres. The shares are limited at S25
payable, 50 when subscribed for, IS on or
before the day of distribution, and the balance
in monthly inslalments Of So. If desired
Wafranee Deed will be made oulimmediately
after the distribution, and delivered directly
after paying the balance.
The Lots are situated in the village of HER
MEANWHILE, on the Long Island Railroad.
County of Suffolk, and 80 miles from the Civ
| of New York. and adjoins Lakeland, also a
| new village, recently laid out, where handsome
buildings are erected.
II is one of the healthiest places in the Uni.
| ted States, and within one mile of Ronkonk-
oma Lake, beautiful sheet of water, ABOUT
three miles in circumference, of singular trans
parency and OF great depth, with an album
dance Of fish. The village is but miles dis
tant from the great South Bay which is five
miles wide and 40 miles long, abundantly 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
Lone ISLAND WHEAT.-At the annual
meeting of the New York Agricultural Socie.
ty, held at Albany, on the 20Ih 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,
of SetauKet. received the second premium OF
SIS, for Winter Wheat, 40 bushels | peck to
the acre. Mr.. Thompsons wheat is variety
| which has been raised but few years on the
Island, and the yield proves it well adapted to
the soil, &c. The agricultural capacities OF
Long Island are beginning to be developed -
| Long Islander.
Setauket is about 8 miles from this land
(Hermannville), and is no better by nature
than these lands now offered for sale. This
wheat is new variety of superior kind and
was sold for seed wheat at So per bushel, and
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little more than two acres, over 800.
There have been raised during the past sea.
son, the very best OF Corn, and Potatoes l5C
bushels per acre, Egg Plants, and q variety o.
garden vegetables on land near the Long Is
land Railroad, at Lake Road, or Lakeland
where Post Office has been established, TO
which premiums at the Suffolk County Agri
cultural Fair. held September 2ith, 1850, wer,
given, Also peas, beans, onions, squashes
| pumpkins. heels and tomatoes
The following is from the New York Farme
and Mechanic of November It'll, 1850, and wa
written by Mr.. Starr, the editor, who visited tn,
lands. The wheat, potatoes, and crops, re
ierred TO in the article were raised at Lake
lane, near lIermannville Station;
" Having few hoursneisure during the pas
week, we were conveyed over the Long IslanC
Railroad, TO large tract of the country, abou
fifty miles from New York, whichwe find to bt
capable of very successful and profitable cult
walton. Although late in the season, and vie W
ed under some disadvantage, we were surpris
| ed at the quality and abundance If the crop.
which had been gathered from portion OF the
land, as also The winter crops which appeared
unusually promising. Wheat which had beer
sown but twoor three weeks, presented abeau
tliu thniiy appea rance while turnips beet:
and other vegetables not yet gathered for win
ter use would compare advantageously will
the best in the New York market Potatoes
already in the cellar were very fine without
veslige of disease, and corn standing in the felC
was not surpassed by much that we saw OF
lands valued al more than one hundred dollar
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 favorabl,
offered TO the public, at prices which canno
fail TO double in few years, and we would in
vite the attention of those who desire cheal
and eligible farm, 10 this location"
Hermannville Station is located on the hor
ders Of the Long Island Railroad, whence car
run several times a day to Brooklyn and New
York. The surface of the land is smooth anC
level, and the surrounding country is perieclf
healthy, and within few miles Of this place
highly cultivated and valuable, having beer
settled for more than hundred and fifty years
and where similar lands sell at from $50 t.
$500 per acre.
The lands are as good as represented, and a
good as any new land on the Island, and whel
cultivated, will produce in the highest degree
The land was once heavily timbered SOM
portions are now covered with thrifty growll
of young wood, oak and pine. Wood is plenty
and generally cheap in that part of the Island
Fire-wood is cheap: that which is suitable L
be cut into cord-wood, for the New York ma r
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many years, been considered a cash article OF
the Island.
There is Material on the land for common
lencikg-good chestnut rails can be had with
in few miles of these lands in abundance. AL
building materials can be had at the depots o
Brooklyn and Greenport, and at many inter
mediate places, at The ususl market prices
| There are numerous streams OF water rising in
these new lands, and running into the grea
South Bay, which are remarkable for their pu.
rity, and never fail-indeed dry weather make:
very lille change in them, they are unfailng
and wells are of various depths-probably, over
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 TO
| build.
| There are now churches and schools within
two or three miles Of the village, and within
four miles, mills, factories, stores, aud villages.
| All the privileges of an old settled country are
to be had here and the people of Suffolk
County pride themselves on being highly
moral, orderly, and religious people. All ofmy
| subscribers arepF IONS OF responsibility.
The land can bf sry easily cleared, and the cost of
settlement will depend entirely upon the settler; he can
lay much little he chooses. do know
Of any objections 10 the place the land for settle
ment and the same labor and industry which make
cessu and prosperous settlements other parts OF the
country, bestowed upon these lands, cannot fail pro
duce favorable results.
The climate is la every particular healthy and pleas
ant-he roads are good and always passahe at an
sous OF the year-the winters short and mild,
pared to the winters the main to the north Of the
highlands--there is seldom slcghing than Two or
three weeks on the Island.
What is remarkable, crop is seldom injured by
drougktthere is part of the country where there
30 little injury fiom drought Long Island nor
there uny injury from setthere is no wet cold land
nal haI A - a..