The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1853-07-27


So great was the call for shares IN the
Lakeland Building Lots aud farms, distr H.
ted on the 3lst OF january, and 2sth of Fcbru-
airy, now past that after every share was dis
posed Of my office was Literally crowded with
applicants. by whose earnest solicitations,
have been induced to Law out another pl 1 adj
Joining the last and extending westerly on
the Long Island Railroad to the Water Sta.
ton where the cars now stop to take in water
Said plot will be divided into 500 Shares at
: 5 each and consist of 700 Building Lots,
one hundred feet square ; two Farms OF TWEEN
~ acres each two of ten ncrcs each, six OF
five acres each, two of fur acres each, and
lightweight smaller ones to be distributed on
no 3lst March. 1853.
Each subscriber is entitled TO 4 lots, 25 by
100 feet, lying together, or FARM Of from
2 to 20 acres. The shares are limited ct s C
payable, 50 when subsci lied for, 50 on or be-
fore the day Of distribution, and the balance
in monthly instruments Of $3.50.
The Village of Lakeland where these lots
are located is only short distance South of
the celebrated Lake Roukunkorna, the beauty
and romantic appearance OF which are praised
10y ali who visit it. Here may already be seen
the best evidence that can he desired that
Lakeland and Hermanvillc Will shortly be.
come choice places on Long Island, long
known us the " Garden Spot of America
From the published statistical accounts of the
late ccnsus inkcI hy the United States it is
shown that Long Island is the most healthy
location within its borders fewer deaths ac-
cordng to its population than in any other
place. About 800 farms have been sold with
in short time-felds have been cleared and
cultivated and crops now growing that will
compare iavoiably with those in any part Of
the country several houses have been built
and o hers are now being erected by their en-,
terprisine purchasers. Mechanics nrc sclec-
ting sites for their business here, which from
its nearncss TO New York, they car carry on
with equal profit having their families with
them, secure against the vices and tempta tions
of crowded city, and enormous rents a
building is now beng erected by a gentleman
for the purpose of keeping all such articles for
sale as are necessary for a country village
etore, The fertility Of the soil, and Its adam
tcdness for the profitable cultivation OF every
article of produce raised in n similar latitude
has already been satisfactorily demonstrated !;
and the farms which am now selling Mt from
$50 to $50 dollars per acne are Of the same
general character as TO soil with those now
under cultivation, which cannot be purchased
for 500 per acre and land on the North and
South OF this. with no better soil naturally
cells from 5000 to $500 per acre
TLe,e lands will produce as mu,h per acre
with The same cultivation. as any land within
fifty miles Of the city Of New York.
Several gentlemen of the first responsibility
who have visited Lakeland and examined the
crops then growing there, declare that the
wheat, rye corn, potatoes and garden vegeta-
bles, are equal to any they have seen ia any
part of the country, proving conclusivcly that
the soil is capable of producing, and that in
the highest perfection, all that the agricultur-
i>t can wish or desire.
add the following letter from Mr. LlIom-
mcdicu. who resides at Lakeland
LAKELAND iIoIFr, Nov IA. 1851.
Dear Sir,-TIa,ng personal know ledge Of the same,
It gives pleasure ur inquiry about PRO
ductions here, by stating that during The past
there have been raised $50 bushc. Of the hest and
potatoes to the acre besides excellent Yields Of garden
vegetables, peas beans onions, squashes, pumpkins
bccis, tomaine. cgg-plant- &c.
IRA LHOMMEnIEr, Deputy Postmaster
Also from MI. J. C B.nrke
NV York, July D. 1851.
Dear Sir,l bought last n farm of forty acres in
the middle of the Village Of IIerman,il:c. and
would not re now for 800 an aero
Very c,Pectfuiy, yours &c,
JOHN C. NICKEL,
Charles Wood, Esq. % Essrxst.,N Y.
When man is industrious and attentive To his bus
iness, he soon becomes independent NJ. John J.
Sioohof, ca amacl. rcreivel IN the year 1917. from
about 30 of land cutivfied In peaches peas. po
iato@~, and asparagus shout s3600. lie sent H HE
produce to market with team, distance Of more than
10 miles.
NJ. Van sicklen, Of Jamaica, culri,aes 60 acres OF
land at cost Of about 81 100 In labor and aud
receives about $500 per ,ear See American Agri
culturis Feb, No ISIS, and nlso tho Transactions nj
the New York Staie Agricultural Snciety.) These i'm
portap sho~ what industry aud prudence do
on Long Island land The land Of Mrssrs : onthnon
mud Van Sicklen il very much such land this nov
oe ed for sae, being in the same ange OF tho island
aud IN no way superior To- these new lands.
Wneat of the sam quality. which grows here luxu-
riantlv. rai>' d nv Mr. Samuel Thompson Of Srau
kc, last season (about mites ON tins place.) Nho
received for the product liite more than ""
500 CHARLES WOOD
Frb.ls, i1Gm.