Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1863-01-10

ture for living
Large numbers Of people arc purchasing and pcoe
pie who desire the best location should visit the pas
a tonce.
Improved land is also for sale
TMBER-Land can be bought with without
timber. The timber Mt market valuation.
The title is indisputabe. Wnrruntee Deeds given,
clear of all incumbrance, when the money is paid.
Boarding conveniences at hand.
Letters promptly answered, and Reports of Solon
Robinson and Wm. Parry, sent together with tho
Vineidnd RHrdi
Route to the land leave Walnut street wharf
Philadelphia, at o'clock, A. M, and p. NJ,
lunlesS there should be change of hourl for Vine
land, on the Glnssboro' and Millville Railroad
When you leave the cars ut Nineland Station Just
opened, inquire for
CHARLES X. LANDS, Postmaster,
Founder Of the Colony,
VrSrLASD, P. o., Cumberland county N. j.
p. S.--There is II change of cars at Glnssboro'.--
Also beware Of sharpers on the from New York
and Philadelphia to Yincland, nquirng your busi-
ness, destination, &c
REPORT OF SoLoY ROBINSON. or THE NEW YoRK
TRIBUNE, uroS THE VrEIAND SETTLEMENT.
s.v1 Tho following il an extract from the report of
Solin Robinson Esq. published in the New York
Tribune in reference 70 Nncland All persons can
read this report with interest
AdyantagcS Of Farming near rbone-Finelqnd--
Remnants upon Mayi-.Sou, us gyea, Ftrility-
Tie CauSe Of Fcniiiy-AmoHnt Of Crops
II is certainly one of the most extensive fertile
trncts, in an almost level position, and suitable
dition for pleasant farming that know of this side
of the western prurtcs We found some of the oldest
farms apparently just rs profitaby productive
when first cleared Of forest fifty or hundred years
ago.
The gcologst would soon discover the cause of thi
continued fertility. The whole country is n marine
deposit, and all through the soil found evidences
of calcarcous substances. generally in the form
indurated calcareous mari, showing many distuc,
forms Of ancient shells of the tertiary formation
this mary substance is scattered a through the soil
in a very comminutcd form, and in the exact condi
ton most easily assimated by such plants as th
farmer desires TO cultivate.
Mari, in all ts forms, has been used to fcrtiliz
crops in England, from the time it was occupied b.
the Romans and in France and Germany mari be
is counted on a valuable bed of manure, that ca
be dug and cartcd and spread over the field, How
much more valuable, then, 1t must be. when foun
already mixed through the soil, where new particle
will be turned up and exposed and transformed
the owners every time he s;irs the earth.
Having then satisfied our minds of the cause, the,
will not be excited with wonder Mt seeing udubitab
evidence of fertility in soil which in other situa
tons, having the same general characteristics or
least appearances is entirely yunremupeTatve, eNceT
as its productiyones Is promoted by artificial fertil
zation.
few words about the quality and value of tn
land for cultiy alton, Of which We have some stro
proof.
Our first visit was to William d. Wilson. Trankli
township, Gloucester county, who purchased son
eight miles north of Millvillc about threo years ag
for the purpose Of establishing n steam MILL to wor
up the timber into lumber, TO send off by the ne
railroad, as well us the ircwood and coal. for whic
he built branch tIack mile and ialf long.
also furnished sixteen miles Of the road with ties
has no doubt made the mill profitable, though b
main oh iect was to open farm having bccOWe cor
vinced that the soil valuable ton cultivation.
this he has not been disappointed, as some Of h
crops prove. For instance, last year thesecordt tin
of cropping 800 bushels of potatncs on acre,
bllslcl n
without manure, produced $50 bushels of oats
one field, the first crop potatoes, planted
the roots, and yielded 10 bushels The potatoeswe
dug and wheat sown, and yielded 10 bushels; Al
the stubbe turned under and sown to bUckwhes
which yielded 335 bushels; and then the ground "
sown to clover and timothy, which gave as GrstcrC
2! tons per acre.
The fertilizers applied to these crops were, first
ashes from clearings; second, 225 pounds of super
phosphate of lime third, 200 pounds Peruvian
guano then 80 bushels OF slaked lime has beo &
spread upon the clover since it moved and
turned in for wheat.
Mr.. Wilson's growing crops, and the wheat stubble
of the present all indicate his land produc-
tive as any part of the State.
At Mary Barrow s, an old stvlc Jersey woman
farmer, several miles south of Mr., Wilson's We were
particularly struck with the fine appearance of
field of corn that stopped TO inquire of the hired
man how it was produced, We found that the land
hHd been the year but one before in wheat with
clover and this cu and last spring plowed
once, with one ''poor old nag" and planted with
corn,
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ha,t - go. w Ia III ,ai .n.t o"use Mo NO
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IGe trncl eonsisted Of baats earrots cabhaIo
orrbors n,oIons ~ VI al 80 ,,d'n,;, .u,
of Ims hrans gro,yn fpr c,n So we Pr,On aa
Vi Ln' uoansi sfD"u ioi nn nno.iis' % VIC were
G [ ."ai ;e hi WI sJ ,
,, h,d ~ 10" n"a iarad All ~ IN
xatio % ny. t raa n n Gou ~ eIl
$50 ''Ns 'N0"e" " 0''''"'' al signs Vi 'ne
Onr rc~t visit ,ros ,o tho farm, oF Andr.,v c.o.,
ul he. ,lS' Nns NJ .ne arm Ii fnure" Snarp,
of the railroad, and just about in the centre of Vine
land. Mr. ShaIp commenced work here in Deeem-
Der, 1885, upon 2O acres In less than three years,
he has got 4 acres cleared and in crops this
all well enclosed and divided into several fields with
cedar rail or pole fence has built two story dwell
ing, about 81 by 10 feet, and smaller house tor farm
laborers, and stable and granary and some other
out-bulldings
Considerable part OF the land was cleared for tho
plow at 80 an acre, and on some of it the frs crop
was buckwheat lined with 90 bushels in powder per
acre This crop may be put in July 4th, to 2Oth and
yields 70 to 30 bushels per acre, harvested in NOVemr
ber; when the land being sowod with $50 lbs. Of
Peruvian guanO and seeded with rye yielded ~ to
10 bushels per acre and $40 worth of straw Therye
stubble turned, after knocking of large growth of
oak sprouts aud dressed ssrin with uAno Asid ssod
to wheat, gave 10 or 16 bushels The crop whian he
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