The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1875-10-13

nB correspondent of the Nesoark Courier
presumably ]. Y. Foster, Esq, who has been
recently visiting our county,) writes as fol-
lows to that paper:
The County of Hunterdon, whence these
lines are written, is rich in scenery of the
grandest description. The face of the country
is rolling and for the most part mountainous,
with here and there stretches of tableland
which give pleasant diversity to the views
Along the lines Of the New Jersey Central
and Of the Easton and Amboy Roads, there
are bits of scenery which equal in grandeur
anything this side of the Alleghanies. The
country is still heavily wooded, almost every
farm including several acres of timber land.
The wood is largely chestnut, oak, hickory
and maple, and you can imagine what pictures
these wooded areas present when the foliage
is touched by the genii of the Autumn. Just
now, standing anywhere upon an eminence
and looking out we see grt at fields OF corn
far and near the shocks standing in low rows
like regiments in open ranks, with here and
there patches OF buckwheat brown and white,
and other fields Of winter grain, green as
brook washed meadows in May. There is nc
better corn land anywhere than in this county
the census of 1850 showing that the average
production per acre was greater in this county
than in any other in the Union from which re-
ports were received. This year the wheat
was failure, but ordinarily the crop is large.
More attention is given than formerly to tie
cultivation of orchards, and the supply OF
fruit is fifty per cent larger than it was
twenty-five years ago. The cultivation Ct
peach orchards has for some time past been a
speciality in some parts of the county, and the
capital of farmers has been largely augmented
by the. returns derived from this source. I'M
proved methods of cultivation consequent up
on larger knowledge of the chemical pro-
perties of soils and the uses of fertilizers, have
also been generally adopted since the days
when MS boy, we roamed these hills, and
there are on every hand positive indications
of growing intelligence and refinement.
This is particularly apparent in the home sur
roundings of the farming population in the
enlarged conveniences and the general charac-
ter Of their buildings in the tasty arrange
ment of lawns and gardens, and i'll the intro
duction of purely esthetic features in the
home enjoyments. Forty years ago an organ
or melodeon in church was regarded very
much as device Of Satan for Turing souls to
to the pit ; now almost every house has its
melodeon or piano. and the farmers wife and
daughter understand as well how to evoke
music from it as they do how to extract but
ter from the milk in the "spring house."
What the Central Road has done for thu
upper part of the county in opening up to set
t.ement fertile and valuable lands which had
too long remained idle, and bringing in per
sons from the metropolis, with both the means
and disposition to utilize and improve til,
natural advantages of the county, the castor
Ind Amboy Road win soon do for the middle
and lower portion 1t cannot be otherwis,
than that people will drift out hither from
Newark and elsewhere, just rs soon rs the at
fractions of these hills and valleys become full
known. Here, for instance, at Pittstown, o
I,andsdowp or Sidney or any of the neigh