The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1853-09-28

purchase will be
good investm ent.
So great was the call for shares in tho
Lakeland Building Lots and farms, disrihu-
ted on the 3lst of January, and 2Sth ofFcbru
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 lay ont another plot 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 nj
SIS each and consist OF 700 Building Lots,
one hunGrcl feet square two Farms OF TWEEN
~ acres each two of ten acres each, six Of
five acres earh two Of four acres each, and
lightweight smaller ones to be distributed on
no 3st March. 1853.
Each subscriber is entitled to l,ts, 20 by
100 feet, lying together, or Il FAR NJ Of from
2 to 20 acres. The shares are limited ct Sic
| PAYABLE, So when srbsci lied for, IS On or be-
| fore the day Of distribui,ou, and the balance
in monthly instolmens Of $3.50.
Tho Village of Lakeland where these lots
arc located is only short distance South Of
the celebrated Lake RonkUnkoma, the beauty
. and romantic appearance oil which arc praised
/ Dy all who visit it. Here may already he seen
the best evidence that can be desired that
Lakeland and lIermanvillc will shortly be-
come choice places on Long l>l"nd long
| known rs the Garden Spot of America
/ From the Published Statistical accounts Of the
/ late rensus taken by the United States II is
/ shown that Long Island is the most healthy
location within its borders fewer deaths ac-
cOrding to its population than in Hny other
place. About 30 farms have been sold with
in a short time-fclds have been cleared and
cultivated and crops now growing that will
compare avolably with those in any part Ct
the country several houses have been bulls
and others are nowbeing erected by their en-
tcrprisinC purchasers. Mechanics are seIec-
ting sites for their business here which from
| its ncarncss 70 New York, they can carry on
with equal profit having their families with
them, secure against the vices AUTHORIZATIONS
Of q crowded city, and enormous renis a
| building is now beng erected by gentleman
for the purpose of keeping all such articles for
sale MS are necessary for a country village
etore, The fertility of the soil and Its adap.
tedneSs 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 at from
$50 to $50 dollars per actc are Of the same
general character as TO soil with those now
under cultivation. which cannot he purchased
for 800 per acre, and land on the North and
South Of this. with no better soil naturally
cells from 5000 to $500 per acre
These lands will produce rs mu,h per acre,
with The same cultivation. as any land within
nifty miles Of the city of New York
Several gentlemen of The first responsibility
who have visited Lakelsnd and examined the
CROPS then growing there declare hat the
wheat, rye, corn potatoes and garden vegeta-
bles, are equal to any they have seen il any
part Of the country, proving conclusively that
the soil is capable of producing, and that in
the highest perfection, all that the agricultur-
>t can wish or desire.
add the following letter from Mr. L'Hom-
medieu. who resides at Lakeland
LaKELAND IIoTEL, Nov. rs, 1851.
Dear Sir,-IIavng personal know ledge of The some,
il gives pleasure to answer inquiry about pro-
ducons here, by sta'ingthat during Tho past SEASON
there have b.en ai-ed $50 bushcl. Of tn, best and
potatoes the besides excellent ied- Of garden
vegetables, peas bean-, onions squa,bes, pumpkins,
| bcets tOInatnr- egg-plnHts, &c.
IRA I.'HOMMEDTEIi, Deputy. Postmaster.
Also one from Mr. ]. c Brcke
Ntw York, July ?. 1851
Dear | Soasi la, yrar ier% of l",y acre, e
| would not sell nov for 500 m acre
Ne'y respectfully, Your. SC,
| When l. ilu-trou. aud aiionii,e 10 his bus
ines, he con becomes independent NJ, John ).
Stootnof, ofJanaca received, in tho i-i7 from
about 10 acres of land cultivated In pea h' pet- %
iatoe-. and asparagus about S3,roa. lie scnt
plodnoe to market Al team, distance oi inan
II miles.
NJ Van sieAlcn, Of Jamnca cnltisa,as 90 acres Of
land ct about : 100 IN labor nnd manure aud
receives about ono per wear. lSoo American Agri
cuturi-t Feb, No lci-, aud als1 the Transactions Of
| the New YORK STATE Arricu'tnr Snc'ty.) Thee i'm
porlan case. .how what industry and pruierce 10
| on Long Island land The land of VI s-rs Sip"ineuT
| and Van Sicklcn Is very much such land this Low
oIe' ed for sale being in the Of the island
| and in no way superior to these new lands.
Wheat OF the same qualify. which grows here inxu-
rianily, raised by Mr. Samuel Thompson or Seau.
ket, last season about miles from this pace,) who
received for the product liiie more than two acres
$i1n CHARLES WOOD.
Inh. Mimi.