The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1854-03-01

mung COG Subscribers. Over 500 of these
are alrcady engaged, Many The Lots near
these have been sold for from 100 TO 200
per cent, advances over the price for which
these Lots are row Sold showing that
the purchase will be good investment
So great was the call for shares in the
Lakeland Building Lots and farms, have
been induced to lay ont another plot hdjoin.
ing the last. on the Long IJland Railroad.
Said plot will be divided Into GOO Shares az
SIS each and consist OF 800 Building Lots
one hundred fee. square one Farms Olivier
~ acres; one of ten acres one oil five acres,
| one of four acres, and 30 OF two acres each.
10 he distributed Oh the eveningof tho S0th Of
December, 1853.
Each subscriberis entitled to lots 25 by
| 100 feet, lying together, OF FARM OF from.
2 to 20 acres. The share, arc limited stSl5
| payable, So when subscribed for, s. on or be-
| fore the day Of division, aud the balance
| in monthly instalmcn.s Of $3.50.
The Village of I!~Acanj where these lots
are located is only short distance South VI
| the celebrated Lake Ronkvnkoina, the beauty
| and romantic appearance Of which arc praised
by all who visit it. Here may already be seen
the best evidence that can he desired that
| Lakeland llermanviilc will shortly be-
come choice places on Long 1slDQd; long
|
From the pubishcd statisticAl accounts of the
late census taken by the United States il 10
shown that Long Islands the most healthy
location within its borders fewer deaths &C.
cordine to its population than in any other
place About $50 farms have been sold with
in q short time--fields have been cleared and
cultivated and crops now growing that will
compare iavorably with those in any part Of
the country several houses havs been built
| ,nA l,r ,i,.;,,f cd lp thair
terprsing purchasers. Mechanics are selec-
ting sites for their business here, which from
its nearness TO New York. they can carry on
with equal profit having their families with
them, secure against the vices and Temptations
of crowded city, and enormous rents. A
building is now being erected by gentleman
for the purpose of keeping all such articles for
sale as are necessary for country village
tore The fertility of the soil, and It's adap.
,cdness for the profitable cultivation OF every
article of produce raised in a similar latitude
has already been satisfactorily demonstrated |;
and the FARMS which am now selling at from
1925 to S35 dollars per acre are Of the same
general character as 10 soil with those now
under cultivation, which cannot he purchased
for Sio0 per acre, and land on the North and
South OF this. with no better soil natui all v;
cells from 5000 to $500 per acre.
These lands will produce as mu,h Per acre,
with the same cultivation. as any land within
fifty mlec Of the city Of New York.
| Several genllcmeA of the first respcctabilhy
who have visited Lakeland and examined tho
CROPS then growing there declare hat the
wheat, rye, corn, potatoes and garden vcgeta-
blcs, arc equal to any they have seen il any
part Of the country, proving conclusiycy that
the soil is capable of producing, and that in
the highest perfection, all that the agriculture
isl can wish or desire.
add the following letter from Mr. L HON.
medieu. who resides at Lakeland.
I LAKELAND HOTEL, Nov. Is, 1851.
Dear cir,-ffaNinr personal know ledge Of The same,
gives me pleasure tn answer ur inquiry about pro.
ductinns here v stating that during the pnsi ,ra,us
there have raised $50 bushel. Of the best and
potn to the acre besides excellent Yields OF gard
vegetables, peas beans, onion- sua,hes, pumpkins,
IRA LHoMMEnIEU, Deputy Po.,msler.
Nkw yonx, July D. 1851
Dear sr-i boughtla,t wear a farm OF forty ii
The middle Of the nov village oi ierman''l'c and
would not srl now for 500 an acre.
JOHN G BEcKEL,
| Charles Wood Esq. 90 Esssxst.,N Y.
mess, he sonn becomes independent 81. John J.
Sloothof of amlica, received, IN the year is47 on
about 30 Of land cultivated In peachcs peas. po
iatoes, Anl asparagus about $1,000. Ne sent all hi.
rrodnee to market with tesns distance OF more than
! 10 miles.
NJ. Van Scklen, Of Jamaica, cntivaie. 80 acres OF
land at Of about 81 l0n In labor and msnure and
receives about $500 per wear. tsse American kg'i.
the New York State Ayricutdr Sncicty.) These int
porap' cRsc' she" hat industry and pru do
, Long Island land The land of Messrs stouihuos
aud Van sicken Is very much such land A. this no .
ed for sale, being the range q the slaed
and in no way superior to these lands.
W'eat Of ih. SAM qaahiy. which grows here luIu-
kci,l II ssn'oa (aboUt midas ON ths riace) no
iOor ed for the products MI. than tho ss'es
CHARLES Woo