Middletown transcript., 1869-08-14

dinary results are accomplished in vegeta7-
bles. One grower told the writer that.
from three-fourths of an acre, without ma
nure, he had taken two hundred and sew
enty-fve bushels of Irish potatoes.
As an instance of the superiority of the,
climate for horticulture, a.crop of potatoes
and Of cabbage has been taken from the
same ground, between the frosts of Spring
and Autumn. Sweet potatoes yield threa
hundred bushels or hundred barrels and
upwards per acre. Early potatoes bring
dollar to a dollar and fifty cents per-
bushel and there are many farmers who
clear every year the value of the land de-
voted to potatoes. We saw one farm, of
two hundred acres, leased with buildings,
on the half share plan, which netted the
tenant, over his expenses for his own por-
tion, the good sum of ten thousand dollars.
and the produce was solely grass, corn.
potatoes and wheat.
Tomatoes will eventually be a big thing.
One grower sold in Boston the crop from
single acre for seven hundred dollars.
Another sold the crop for an acre to can
ming establishment for four hundred doll
lars--recciving but twenty-five cents per-
basket Near Camden, a man cultivated
an acre and half, on half shares, sold the,
same at twenty-five cents per basket and han
ded the owner two hundred and seventy five.
dollars, or hundred dollars more than
the land was worth. Such results are re-
markable, but are not safe enough to form
estimates upon for large culture. -Four or.
five hundred bushels can be considered a
good yield per acre. The first shipments
realize, perhaps, five dollars per crate ),
then the price falls steadily to dollar and
the majority over fifty cents.
| There is no reason why all kinds of veg
etables may not be grown in Delaware,
and successfully supply New York two.
weeks earlier than they now do. Rhubarb,
and asparagus will pay finely. Cucum--
bcrs, bects, lettuce, spinach, cabbages.
caulitlowers, egg plants, onions-all will
10 well.
Now, there is no possible reason why all,
these results should not be attained on the
Eastern Shore of Maryland quite as we'll
as in Delaware; the two sections are divi-
ded by mere imaginary line, and they
both form part of the same peninsula,
Tue Maryland counties are penetrated in
| every eoncelNap!c ulrcel@oA ny Hu'lSapie'
waters, and in all the wealth of the wa
ters in fish, oysters, terrapins, and crabs,
they have decidedly the advantage Of their
neighbor, Delaware.
Though chemical analysis has proved
the wheat of Eastern Maryland to be the
best ever exhibited on the London Corn
Exchange, the farmers there must event.
ually become horticulturists in view of tho
enormous profits to be derived from that
branch of agriculture To estimate the.
prospective value of their lands after this
is done, is beyond our arithemic. In En-
gland the fee simple of land is valued at
twenty-five years rent-that is, an acre is.
estimated to be worth twenty y-fve times its,
yearly rent; apply this rule to lands pro-
ducing net annual revenue of from two.
to four hundred dollars an acre, and sur
rounded by waters ahounding in all the,
luxuries for the table, and a faint idea may
be formed of the value to which the Eas-.
tern Shore lands must attain. For safety
and profit VIC can conceive of no invest
ment Of money to compare with the lands
of Eastern Maryland
The foregoing remarks will apply with
more or less portinency to all the tide wa
ter country of Maryland and Virginia.
Turf, Fiesd and Farm