Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1868-10-01
;farm 8iresildis.
New Castle County Farms.


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$1,000 10 II
A sMsdsr' In Rea Lion hundred,
MsssRs, EprroRs J. You deserve the thanks
of,every Delaware Farmer forayour good
paperrwith Ats LIE AND rsnlly yieor77- and
especially for the practical information y
constantly supplies IN It's Agricultural col
umns.A The account Of ,he Model Farm
Of Governor Ross by your own reporter was
an instructive and Interesting paper and les
titles the right of the Elk. Coy. to the dis
tlnction he has already had--'he result OF
good Judgment and Industry. That Sussex
has claimed 10 have the IN all Farm OF the
State may wen excite ss',nesnquiry and call
upon New Castle to :. match it" If she can.
Permit me then to call s"lir attention to :
farm in Red Lion Hundie AID from the ex-
hibit your readers may conclude that New
Castle county as the poli cafs say, " has
claims" asss
Vincland Farm is located on the Delaware
river short distance below Delaware City.
When the late lamented John Reyb0ld
purchased 1t thirty years or more ago it was
but q poor concern, dilapi,laied and over
flowed. With great heart and liberal ex-
penditures, with skill and industry, he then
built his lasting monument, leaving 1t as we
find it.
1t is now the property of Mr.. Colburn, OF
Philadelphia, being rented and managed
by Mr.. William Beck, a good farmer, an
'Englishman, Republican and good cit
izen. ,Sssi' ri A.ts'99
AS Mr.. Beck will gisr,lm figures for this
article, we will speak II nm en- PEASANT
He came from Lincolushiro, arriving IN Del
aware in May, 1s4s; worked for three years
on farm, commencing at $40 per month /;
then rented for few years, meanwhile pur-
chasing farm; sold it at an advance, and
bought another, and yet another, making
money all the while until, at this date, we
find him renting one of the best farms in the
county, owning two farms valued at 500,
600, with his liabilities SO arranged that h,
considers himself worth not less than $50,
600. Surrounded by a colony of relative
and friends, he proves the unselfshness o
his nature by extending assistance and en-
enlargement to all. His aged father an
mother who followed him to this country
live near him in easy retirement. This sue
cess we may claim as one of the best tr
butes ever paid to our Republican instit,
tons, and does credit to Delaware as wei
The farm contains 1888 acres, of which 81
are upland, 400 high meadow, and the re-
low meadow, useful for pastorage and roug
hay. The dwelling house is frame, unpr
tentious, but roomy and comfortable, with
lawn handsomely laid out and hedged wit
juniper. A large boarding house near a
commodities the hands brick barn, wit
galvanized iron roof, holds 600 tons of ha,
and attached is frame stabling which, besit
for all the horses, has stalls for one hundre
and twenty cattle.
A corn crib. which holds G,000 bushel
wagon and tool houses, granary, two dali
houses and numerous cottages, complete Il
list of improvements and make the farm pr
feet in all desirable appointments.
Upon examining the soil we find the u
land an alluvial, dark, rich in organic mi
ter, analogous to the Western prairie a
producing equally well.
tural emergency, withstanding drouth, dra
ing well, and producing, steadily, wonder
crops of corn, wheat, hay, milk and butt
and grazing hundreds of beef cattle ;
sheep.
Mr.. Beck employs twenty hands, la
and small, using twenty horses and #
yoke of oxen.
This year harvested 100 acres wheat,
being a poor season the crop averages
90 bushels per acre. One hundred and 70
acres in Germ promises well-will yielt
least GO bushels per acre. Two hundred +
timothy and green grass hay and 100 tons
inferior quality make this years crop a g
one.
But one dairy of sixty-tive cows, max
annually 1900 pounds butter is now in
Grafton, but another of equal size will
started next spring.
Ninety head of beef cattle have been 6
ed--sheep alone have paid II 900, and
ing the last three years 10 head Of 20
cattle of improved Durham and Hols
breed have been raised
Owing to the bad season twenty acre
Apple orchard will produce but 800 barr
Mr. Beck has been SO successful '
dwarf pears that they may be called 81
atty; small orchard planted by Mr..
bold now yielding from 81, 900 to 81 SOC
year.
These are a few of the leading items
prised in the management and productit
this fine estate, and as evidence that
has been no overestimation of its quail
Mr.. Beck's books show gross money
duct for the two years of 1867 and So
$42,84S, or yearly income Of upwar,
$2I 200; which although subject to the
rent expenses of the farm we may vel
agine leaves handsome yearly profit
There may be other farms in New {
county which can make better exhibit
this, and no doubt you can get an act
if it be SO.