Smyrna times., 1875-05-19
For The So3yrna 7
AUSTIN. MOWER Co., MINI.
Nav 10th. 1873.

3. OF hired help in the house. and in tn" |
field?
4. Is your soil good; is water plenty and |
good?
fever, or droughts in summer?
6. Have YOU much fog and damp weather? |
:. What are the usual yields of crops?
s. Is your climate good for consump- !
tives?
9. Do YOU have much cold weather?
10. Do your people desire immigration,
and are new comers cordially received re-
gardlcss of their political opinions?
\ SUBSCRIBER.
We will proceed to answer our correspon-
dents questions but before doing so we will
state that this is the third or fourth letter
of the kind we have received from various
parties within the past two months. The
others before this came, however. i'll the
way of private communication and they
have been so answered. Until recently
such inquiries were very unusual, and their
comparative frequency now indicates that
there must be something that is particu
larly drawing public attention to the PENN
sula and its agricultural resources. We
still further have reason to think this way
from the fact that every week. almost with
out an exception. one or moro farms are
sold to parties from the Northern OF
Western States who propose 10 engage in
agricultural pursuits on the Peninsula.
Within the past three weeks seven sales Of
farms in Talbot county alone have come
1 III 4,
Western men. 1t i rather an anomaly for
the current Of investment to drift back
from the West to tho East again. but such
seems to be the fact
Another matter comes up fOr consldera
ton. As we have once or twice stated
heretofore, the depression in manufacture
ing has turned the current of investment
more than ever towards agriculture. This,
with the fame our Peninsula has gained as
the great fruit growing section of the East.
has set the drift towards us. and is bringing
our real estate out of the financial dcprcs-
sion more rapidly than any other branch of
industry. Therefore. the sooner farms are
purchased the cheaper they can be obtained.
as it is evident from the advance in recent
sales that real estate has reached bottom
and will never be so cheap again unless
some unforeseen calamity should befall us.
Now we will proceed to answer 'Subscri-
Lcrs" inquiries. To facilitate matters we
have numbered the questions, and will put
corresponding numbers to the answers. to
wit:
|. The price of farm land Is any where
from SIS to 5000 per acre. according to it.
location and quality of soil (Wehaye little
or no unimproyed lands in this section, il
We except the salt marshes: and even they
are slowly being brought under -lbiectol
to the husbandmanl
, The price of wood is S4(oSj per cord
and coal SjLo$7-when the miners are no
on a strike For the price of provisions w
refer to our market reports, on 81 page.
>. House help commands from 81 TO &
per week. and field hands from &I2 to 81
per month.
!. Our soil Is decidedly good, to an,w,.
the question in general way, though 0
in all conscience. Water can be reachc
anywhere from - to 80 feet below the SUI
face, and is equal to that Wordswort
found in the ''old oaken bucket" Rm
ming streams are to be found coursin
through every farm in the State.
}. We have chills and fevers. and ncarl
every other disease that flesh is heir t
and also droughts in Summer, but we al
not subject particularly to either. The chill
are by no means a prevalent disease hci
now, and as for droughts, as We said bcfor
while we have them. we rarcly-wo Ini9l
say never-have them 50 Ig.f......
cause any great misfortune.
6. We have fog- and damn v.'
casionally We are within
the Bay and the lower part oi the Stale
washed by the ocean itself. hence salt a
fogs arc to he expected but they are II
looked upon as injurious, nor are they Fl
quent; not more than week, perhaps.
told. III a whole year.
:. Our crop yields per arcc arc about
follows Wheat, 30 to p bushels; corn,
to 80: oats. - to 80: CLOVER |! to >! toi
and so on.
8. We do not know what effect our {
mate has upon consumptives. People {
with that disease here as they do even
Florida, but people who have come amo
us with that disease upon them have be
cured, and have attributed their relief
the change of climate. Northern peoI
who come to Delaware with any pulmOna
disease upon them, as a rule say they Fl
the climate beneficial to them If hum
being can live any where he can live on t
Peninsula; can make a better show
smaller means than any where else that
are acquainted with. And we venture
assert that we can produce more old peoI
TO the square mile, than any other sect
of the Union. Disease comes to us, Ia
ever-not particularly chills or consw
tion-we have not any especial besetting
snent-yet disease comes tou and takes
otfonly too soon. We may remark furtl