The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1851-06-25
Only $25
For a Homestead
% FARMS. worth over $500, and
6400L0Ts, to be distributed among 500
Subscribers.


400L0Ts, to be distributed among 800
Subscribers. :,
To supply the demand for the Lots ARD
Farms at fleqnannville, have laid out anoihj
er tract, adjoining the Long Island Railroad
and the land already sold at Hermanntille, 10
be OF the same Size, and disposed of and divi-
ded among the purchasers in the saline man
ner as those recently sold here.
have been induced 70 do this from the great
uumber of persons wishing to purchase these
Lots and Farms, as the Improvements in tina
part of the Island ate constantly increasing
and large numbers OF persons have now become
Interested In those lands. This addition al tract
is in every respect equal 70 the other and a
the rate they are now being taken they will all
he sold in a short time. About $50 shares arc
now subscribed. q.
Each subscriber IS entitled TO Lots, Is bt
90 feet lying together, or FARM OF hUt1
4 to 20 acres. The shares are limited a S25
PAYABLE, IS when subscribed for IS on OF
before the day of distribution, and the balance
in monthly instalments Of SO. III desired, 4
WARRANTED Deed win be made outimmedia:aly
ifter the distribution, and delivered directly
after paying the balance.
The Lots are ed in the village ri HER
MEANWHILE, on the Long Island Railroad.
County OF Suffolk, and so miles from the City
Of New York and adjOins Lakeland, also a
buildings are erected.
II is one of the heathiest places in the Uni.
ted States, and within one mile Of Ronkonk-
ona Lake, beautiful sheet of water, about
three miles in circumference, of singular trans
parencv aud OF great depth, with an album
lance Of FISH. The village is but miles dis
liant from the great South Bay, which is five
miles wide and 40 miles long, abundanlly 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 POI 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,
lf SetauWei. received the second premium OF
SIS for Winter Wheat, 10 bushels peck to
The acre Mr.. Thompson's wheat is a variety
which has been raised but few years on the
island and the yield proves il well adapted to
the soil, &c. The agricultural capacities OF
Long Island are beginning to be developed."-
tLon2 Islander.
Seiauket is about miles from this land
(Hermannviile), and is no better by nature
tnan these lands nov offered for sale. Thi,
whsat is a new variety of superior kind, and
was sold for seed wheat al So per bushel, and
Mr.. Thompson received f0r the product OF q
little more than two acres, over $500.
There have been raised during the past sea-
son, the very best OF Corn, and Potatoes $50
bushels per acre, Esq Plants, and a 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 AgTi-
cultural Fair, held September oath, 1850. were
given; Also peas, beans, onions, squashe',
pumpkins, bees, and tomatoes.
The following is from the New York Farne
and Mechanic Of November 7lh 1850, and was
written BY Mr.. Siarrthe editor, who visited the
lands. The wheat, potatoes, and crops, re-
ferred 10 in the article, were raised at Lake.
lane, near llermannvlle Station :
Having a few hoursneisure during The past
week, we were conveyed over the Long Island
Railroad, 10 large tract Of the country, about
fifty miles from New York. which We lind 10 be
capable OF very successful and profitable cult
walton. Although late in the season, aud view.
ed under some disadvantage, we were surpris-
ed at the quality and abundance II the crops
which had been gathered from potion OF the
land. as also The winter crops, which appeared
unusually promising. Wheat, which had been
sown but twoor three weeks. presented beau
tiul thrifty appearance while turnips, beets
and other vegetables not yet gathered for win
ter use, would compare advantageously with
the hes, in the New York market. Potatoes.
already in the cellar, were very ne,without
veslge of disease, and corn siandingi 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-
ceived the premium al the Suffolk County Fair,
were raised from portion Of hi. ground which
had not been under cultivation six months.
Altogether We were very isvorably impressed
with our visit to these lands, now so favorably
offered TO the public al prices which canno,
fail 10 double in few years. and we would in
vile the attention of those who desire cheap
and eligible farm, 10 This location"
Hermannville Station is located on the hor.
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. and the surrounding country is perfectly
healthy, and within a few miles Of this place,
highly cultivated and valuable, having been
settled for more than hundred and fifty years,
and where similar lands sell al from $50 10
5000 per acre.
The LANDS are as good as represented, andss
good as any new land on the Island, and when
cultivated, will produce in the highest degree.
. The land was once heavily timbered soma
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.
Fire-w is cheap that which is suitable 10
he cut into cord-wood for the New York mar
ket, is Of uniform price, and has, for great
many years, been considered cash article on
the Island.
There is material on the land for common
tencih g--good chestnut rails can be had with
in few miles of these lands in abundance. All
building materials can be had al the depots OF
Brooklyn and Grcenporl, 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 great
n. 4. .l-.tf f. Il
riiy, and never fal-indeed, dry weather makes
very little change in them, they are uniailng;
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 IS feet,
at Hermannville, a. the ground is higher lhey
are deeper. Subscribers are not compelled 10
build
There are now churches and school, 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 being highly
moral orderly, and religious people. All ofmy
Subscribers arepr-,ons OF responsibility.
The land eanbs sry easily cleared, and the coat 81
will depend entfely upon the settler; he
ay much little as be chooses. do know
Of any objections TO the place or the land for settle
ment and the same labor and industry which make
ces m and prosperous tettcme other parts Of tho
country bestowed upoa&hose lands eannol fail pro.
duce favorable results
The climate Is In every particular healthy and pleas.
ant-he roads are good, and always passabe At an
sous Of the yearthe winters are short and mild,
pai ed to the winters the main to The nouh OF the
highlAnds-there is seldom seighng moro ihan or
three weeks on the leland
What is remarkable crop l. seldom Injured by
is part of tho country where there IL
50 ito Injury from droueh, a. on Long isaad 10
there Injury fom Net--there Is cold laud
the Island. Al the land along the margin Of the
he made highly valuable az small cOst for
there nosueh thing rs food or fie'he as Ia the into
part Of the country by which ofen very great dam