The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1874-01-20
correspondence OF the Globe.
ilOre About vinelant.

Editor Rutland Globc:-Seycral letters
from Nineland have recently appeared in
the Globe, and as the writer thereof is either
so much wrapped up in his "isms" as not
to give material objects proper attention, or
has never seen the town in question, |
propose giving a few facts, which have sug-
gestcd themselves to my mind, after
THIRTEEN YEARS RESIDENCE
near the ''mecca' aforesaid, Vincland
is a neat, tastefully "laid out" town of
about 5000 inhabitants, mostly New
England people. Ten or twelve years
ago Chas X. Lands u shrewd land spec
ulator with whom the undersigned is per-
sonally acqu inted) bought a large tract of
land in Cumberland county, in what is
known as "Landis Township" In the face
of the fercest opposition from large land
owners in the vicinity, but backed up by
the West Jersey Railroad Company he
succeeded by judicious advertising in get
ting
FEW LIVE YANKEES
TO settle there. This was during the
war when the small fruit supply of
the South was cut off. As the soil
of Vineland is peculiarly adapted to
the growth of small fruits, the first set
tiers realized handsome profits from this
source. These parties soon induced their
friends, to come to this land of
MILK AND HONEY.
or more properly speaking OF sweet
potatoes and strawberries, and in the
course of three or four years, Lands found
by dnt of persistent advertising on a large
scale, that the success of the enterprise
was fully established. From this time un-
til within the last three years, the place has
continued to steadily increase in popula-
ton. As soon as the war closed the usual
amount of early southern fruit flooded the
market, rendering the culture Of the same
in Vineland very precarious business. and
at the present time is attended with
LITTLE If ANY PROFIT
A. rule the raising of small
fruits in South Jersey does not pay
and the people of Vineland know it. Wis
itOrs to Vineland are at once struck with
the beauty of the town, and by the general
appearance Of the place conclude the PEG.
pie are thrifty and prosperous Lands
adopted the rule,
40 SPECULATION WITHOUT IMPROVEMENT.
This shut out spectators. and every
foot OF land sold was disposed of
to actual settlers, who built their houses
and improved their grounds, under the di-
rection and supervision of Lands.
UNDER THE CONDITION or THE CONTRACTS,
the Deeds were nothing more nor less.
Parties were obliged to make their i'm
provemcnts AS Mr. Lands dictated By
rigid enforcement of these contracts lands
succeeded in building up the place as you
now sec IT,
The surroundings are not very attractive,
the land is perfectly level and covered
with a growth of yellow pine and scrub
oak, while
THE SOIL GENERALLY Is SANDY.
In Vineland farming cannot be made to
pay. The soil is adapted to corn and ryes
but only by heavy fertilizing, while keeping
stockis out of the question. Hay in bales costs
in Philadelphia from thirty to fifty dol
lars ton, while salt hay is worth from twelve
to twenty dollars a ton. No brooks or run
ming streams like we have in Vermont, no
sheep, very few cows, and yoke of oxen
is rare sight. Land is worth from
$50 TO $50 PER ACRE.
| doubt whether desirable land could be
bought in Lands Township to-day for the
latter sum. 1t costs from twenty-five to
forty dollars an acre to get the land in pro-
per shape for cultivation.7 Fcrtilizers1 are
high, and as there is very little stock kept
parties are obliged to buy their manure.
am speaking now of Vineland, some parts
ofCumbcrland County and in fact the whole
southern tier of counties of N. j., is good
farming land, but even in these localities
FARMING DOES NOT PAY
as well as in Vermont. Vineland
is afflicted with representatives of