Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1862-04-12

best adapted TO market. Every advantage and con-
ycnicncc for settlers will be introduced, and will
insure the prosperity of the place. The hard times
throughout the country will he advantage to the
settlement, ns it compcls people to resort to agricu-
turc for living.
Large numbers of people are purchasing, and peo-
pie who desire the beet location should visit the place
Mt once.
Improved land il also for sale.
TiMBER.-Land can be bought with without
timber. The timber at market valuation.
The title is indisputabc. Warrantec Deeds given,
clear of all incumbrancc, when the money il paid.
Boarding conyenicnccs at hand.
Letters promptly answered, and Reports of Solon
Robinson and VIM. Parry sent together with the
FiRcLIRa Rural.
Route to the land leave Walnut street wharf,
phlndelrhia at o'clock, 4. Nj, and ! =. NJ.
unlcss there should be IL change of hour,) for Vine
land, the Gassboro' and Millyillc Rniroud.--
When You leave the cars at Vncland Station just
' CiIARIEs Il. lands, postmnricr,
Founder of the Colony,
VrsELASD, p. O., Cumberland county, M.
r. S.-Iherc is change of cars at GlHSsb0ro',-
Also beware of sharpcrs on the curs from New York
and Philadelphia TO Nincland inquiring your busi-
ness, destination, &c.
REPORT or SoLoN ROBINSON, OF THE NEW YORk
TRIBUNE, urOS THE VISELAND SETTLEMENT.
.Y Tho following is an extract from the report Of
Solin Robinson, Esq Published in tho New York
TTtbAne in reference to Nineand. All persons can
read this report with interest:
Aa,aRfagcs Of Farming neay homc--I Ija,iand-
Remarks mpon Nayi-SoH. its gyctt F,rtittty-
Tie CawSe Of Ferttlitv-.AmO"m Of Crops
Produced-Practicai EuidcHcc.
II is certainly one of the most extensive fertile
tracts, in almost level position, and suitable
dition for pleasant farming that we know of thi. side
of the western praircs We found some ot the oldest
farms apparently just proftaby productive us
when first cleared OF forest fifty hundred years
ago.
The gcologst would soon discover the cnusc of this
continued fertility. The whole country is II marine
deposit and tLl through the soil found evidences
Of calcarcous substances, generally in the form of
indurHtcd calcnreous marl showing many distinct
forms of ancient shells of the tcrtaIy formation and
this mary substance is scattered all through the soil
in very cOnnIinutcd FORM and in the exact cOndi-
/ tion most easily Hssimatcd BY such plants rs the
/ farmer desires TO cultivate
Marl, in all its forms. has been used to fcrtilizc
crops in England. from the time i; was occupied by
| the Romans; and in France and Germany mari bed
/ il counted Il valuable bed of manure that can
| be dug and cartcd and spread over the field How
much more valuable, then, il Irust be, when found
already mixed through the soil, where PARTICLES
] will be turned up and exposed, and transformed To
| the owner every time he stirs the earth
Having then satisfied our minds Of the cause they
will not be excited with wonder mt seeing mdubtablc
evidence of fertility in soil which in other si,ua-
tons having the general characteristics or ut
least appearances is entirely mrcmuncrstivc except
as its proluctvcness Is promoted hy rrtifcal tcrt
Zation.
\ few word, about the quality and value of lhi.
land for cultivation, of which We have some ,trun.
proof
Our first yi.i; was to Wiliiam T. Wil-on. Franklin
, township, Gloucester county, who purchased some
eight miles north of Millvillc about three years ago
for The purpose of establishing steam mill, 10 work
up the timber into lumber, to send off by the new
railroad, well as the fircwOod and coal, for which
he built Il branch truck mile and II half long lie
also furnished sixteen miles Of the road with ties and
has no doubt made the mill profitable, though his
main object was to open farm, having becoWc con-
WINGED that the soil valuable for cultivation. In
this he has not been disappointed, some of hi-
crops prove. For instance, last year the second time
cropping 30G bushels of potatoes acre, worth
60 cents Lushcl in the field, This ycr seven acres
without manure, produced 1856 bushels OF oats la
one field, the first crop potatoes. planted Hmon:
III. roots, and yielded - bushels. The poatocswcry
dug and wheat sown, aud yielded 10 bushels and
the s'ubblc turned under and Gown TO buckWhcat,
which yielded 332 bushels and then the ground wac
sewn to clover and timothy which gave rs hrstrgol
.! IONS per acre,
The fertilizers applied to these crops were fin,
ashes from clcarings; second, 22j pounds of super.
phosphate of lime third 200 pounds Peruvian
guano then 80 bushels of sakcd lime has been
spread upon the clover since /; moved and
turned in for wheat.
Mr. Wilson = growing crops and the wheat suhll,
of the present season, all indicate bis land as Iruduc
tive rs any part OF the State.
At Mary Barrow's, an old stvlc Jersey woman
farmer, several miles south of Mr Wilson's we Wcr,
so particularly struck with the fine appearance ot
field of corn that we stopped to inquire of the hired
man how it was produced We found tlmt the lam
had been the year but one before In whcut -own witt
clover and this cut season. and a, spring plowct
once, with one poor old nag, and planted witt
corn.
"Ycs. but you marurcl high we surposc ?" W,
said ncIrOcaiiycly, aud got this reply =
"Naal, You see, we cOuldn't Il done that cnuscw VI
hadn't but forty one-hosrc loads altogether, for g
acres, and we wanted the most ont for the struck
The truck consisted of Lcrs, carrots, cabbage. Gu
melons "A very up 81
OF Lima beans grown tor marketing. So We wcr,
satisfied that the soil not inl,rtile even unale,
by clover which had fed the corn because the truci
patch had rot been cloNcrcd, and had been in cu
tivSiion long enough to ULlitcratc all srs Of Ia,
forest.
Our next visit was To the farm of Andrew Sharp
five miles north OF Mihlc, from half TO II mile ca,
Of the railroad, and just about in the centre of Vine
land. Mr. ShaLp commenced work here in Dcccm
Der, 1883, upon 27O acres In less than three years
he has got 2 acres cleared and in crops this season
all well enclosed and divided into several fields Will
cedar rail pole fence has built n two story dwell
ing. about 30 by 30 feet, and smaller house for ftr
laborers, and stable aud granury and some oihc
out-buildings.
Considerable fart of the Land was cleared for th
plow at 50 An acre, aud of il the first cro
{ was buckwheat lined with 30 bushels in powder pc
acre This crop may be put in July 18th, 10 10th an,
yields 90 TO 80 bushels per racre, harvested in Novrnl
Der; when the land being sowel with $50 lbs q
Peruvian guano and seeded with rye, yielded II T.
: lj bushels per acre and $40 worth OF straw. Thery
StubDle turntu aiter knocking on a large growth q
oak sprouts and dressed again with guanO and sccdc
to wheat, gave IL or IL bushels The crop which h
was thrcshing while there promised more
: Of very plump grain, and the straw is very heavy
We went over the stuLble and found the Glove
n and timothy, from seed sowcd last spring, ON the wheat
, without narrowing looking well as we ever saw
upon any old cultivated farm, and with little wor
done in the winter to clear of roots and rotte
stumps and setting stakes to mark permanent one,
, he will be- able 10 cut the crop the next year with
n moving machine and will guarantee two tons pc
acre, il he will give the overpus ii it th
a estimate.
\ Part of the land was planted with potatoes for
\ first crop which yielded l20 bushels per acre
4 then lined with 30 bushels per acre, and sccde
: with wheat and clover yielding an average of owe
10 bushels per acre and the clover now looks beaut
fiIl.
Other portions have been planted with corn as
first crop, which yielded 30 bushels of yellow fin
h corn, and the second crop 40 bushels and the thir
l. crop, treated TO $50 lbs. Of guano ON
u would estimate below 40 bushels per acre
The reader will recollect that the writer il no,
l. speaking of land perfectly new, and which ca
scarcely be considered in good arabic condition n-ED
In other cases, the crop of last year fol
l. lowed with oats this season, not yet thrcshcd, bu
c will average probably 20 TO 50 bushels Sweet poa
toes, beans melons, and in fact all garden vegetables
well young peach and other fruit trees plante,
this yenr show very MAINLY that this long