The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1853-03-30

So great was the call for shares IN the
| Lakeland Building Lots and farms, distrihu-
ted on The 3lst Of January, aud 2sih ofFebru-
airy, now past, that after every share was DIS
posed of, inv office was literally crowded with
applicants. bv whose earnest solicitations, l
haze been induced to lay out 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 he divided into 800 Shares ut
SIS each and consist OF 700 Building Lots,
one hundred feet square two Farms OF TWEEN
ty acres each two Of ten acres each. six of
five acres each, two Of four acres each, and
eighiy-eight smaller ones, to be distributed on
the 3lst March, 1888.
Each subscriber is entitled to 1 lots. 20 by
100 feet, living together, or II FARM Of from
2 to 20 acres. The shares are limited OF &l5
payable, So when subscribed FOR, - on or be-
fore the day Of distribution, and the ba!aace
in monthly insialmcnis Of $3.50.
The VILLAGE OF Lakeland where these lots
are located is only a short distance South Of
the celebrated Lake Ronkuikoinn, the beauty
and romantic appearance OF which are praised
ay all who visit it. Here may already be seen
the hest evidence that can be desired that
Lakeland and Ilcrmahvilc VIII shortly be-
come choice places on Long Island, long
known as the " Garden Spot ~ of America.
L lhll lit lfADAAENAhA 81 NNN - 49,
late census taken hy the United States it is
shown that Long Island is the most healthy
location within its borders fewer deaths nc-
cOrding TO its population than in any other
place. About 30 farms have been sold with
in 9 short time-felds have been cleared and
cultivated and crops now growing that will
compare layoIably with those in any part Of
the country several houses have been luilt
and % hers are low heing erected by thor en-
49, - NJ III. 49,. -.1.,
ting sites for their business herr. which from
its ncarncss To New York, they car carry on
with equal profit having their families with
them, secure nEniust the vices aud temptations
of n crowded city, and enormous rcnis. y
building is now beng erected by n gentleman
for the purpose of keeping all such articles for
sale as are necessary for a county village
stole, i he fertility Of the soil, aud it, adap-
tcdness for the profitable cultivation Of every
article Of produce raised in Il similar latitude
has already been satisfactorily len nsirnird :
and the farms which ! am now selling at from
$50 to $50 dollars per acic Are &C the same
general character Tvs /, soil with those now
under cultivation. which cannot he 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.
These lands will produce as muh per acre,
with the SAINT cultivation. as any land within
fifty miles Of the city Of New York.
Several gentlemen of HE FIST responsibility
who have visited Lakclsnd md eXamincd the
crops then growing there, declare That the
wheat, rye, corn, potatoes aud garden vegeta-
blcs, are equal TO any ihcy have seen ia any
part Of the country. proving coaclusively that
The soil is capable Of producing, and that in
the highest perfection, al that the agricultur-
iSi can wish or desire.
| add the following letter from Mr. L'Hom-
medieu. who resides at Lakeland.
LAKELAND HoTrr. Nov vs.. 1856.
Dear Sir,-Ilasinr per5onal KNOW lodge Of The SANE
u gives me pleasure To- nnswer Y'ur inquiry ahoui pro
dnctious here, by stating tlnt during the past ,nasun
there have bron raised 100 bushels Of hebest corn and
potatoes to IA, aero. hcsidos excellent Yields of garden
Vegetables. as peas, beans, ouicn-, squa-bes, pumpkins,
bcris, iunrt"c-, r-r-rlauis. SC.
iHAL I%OMMEnIEu, Deputy Postmaster.
Also onc from NJ. J. Rrckcl.
NV YoRK, July ,. 1851.
Pear Sill boul ht last year a iarln Of forty acres IL
The middle OF the new Village Of lierman''le' and
would not scl now for SOD NJ acre
JOHN c. ntCKrf,
Charles Wood, ESQ. % Essex st.,N Y.
When n man i. indnslri ions aud attentive to his bus
inc.s, he sopn bcrnr,r, independent NJ. Iohn J.
Stootnoh, ca I'm iicn, received, in tho wear 1871, from
about 90 acres Of land cuiuvftrd in peaches peas. POI
t7ipe-, AMI asparagus ahout S3,GO1. lie .eni all hi.
roducr TO market wi hteam-,a distanee of more than
- miles.
NJ. Van sicLleu, Of Jamaica, c%nlti,aics CD acres o
land ut cost Of about s. 100 10 labor and manure, aud
receives ahou; $500 per year. iSee American Agri
cuitnrist. Feb. No lsis. aal also the Transactions o
The Sew York Smic Agricultural Siciciy) These ion
poriant ra.e> shua what industry and prudence can d,
on l.nngJ ,iand land The laud Of M's.rs $ orthool
nnd Van Sickien is very much ,urh land rs tiis nov
odci ell for sale, being mite same fause Of the island
aud in no WAY superior to these new lands.
Wicat of the SAM qrlhiy. which grows here lnxu
Iauly, was fai,'d by Mr. Samuel Thompson Of Seia II
kci, llst season Cabout { miics + I'm tins place. VIII,
received for the %producta li'tie more than Two mere,
si0o. CllARLlS WOOD.
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