Daily Republican., 1885-11-11
A Batch OF Good Farms.

It tB doubtful whether there are Det,ef
farms or better farmers in Delaware
than are found in C0rlsliana Hundrod,
two or three miles Out from the CITY oi
Wilmington, on the road leading to the
Brsndywine Springs. We will special
ly note two OF three OF those fine farms.
The farm OF ex-Sheritf X. Lewis Arm
strong, containing 12O acres, IL, without
doubt, one Of the best cultivated ana
richest farms in that vicinity. A rep
resentativo OF the REPUBLICAN was
compelled to explain, upon entering
the gate that opened To road leading
down through d finely kept lawn to the
residence, All, this looks like liv-
ing"
The heuse is o large farm house,
built of Brandy wine blue stone. which
with the white window trimmings
made very pretty appearance. To the
rear cast ward Is the old fashioned large
kitchen and porches almost hidden
beneath an avalanche OF flowers that
had been carried in To protect them
from the biting frosts OF fail. In con-
tinued row stands the wood house, the
| smoke house, the wagon shed, corn
cribs and carriage house, al well
kept, showing The sense VI thrift and
neaJnebs that predominsted, Farther
on but TO the right, stanus the large,
spacious barn win deep shedding that
| m sde cattle feel as comfortable during
the Jenuary's chilling blasts AZ II brows
ing beside a ripping rill i'll the sunny
days OF June.
Here are straw stacks, swamp hay.
| stacks, and barn filled with unthresh
ed grain and timothy hay. Ont
the lane there Is q cornreid OF sumo Six
| teen acres. There would have been a
hundred bushols to The acre had lot q
| cy clone Stuck the field sometime IL
] the beginning Of september and leveleG
| q broa1 road through IL as II storm
| cloud had dragged a roller gu AFTER of
| u mile long over IL. AS IL l5 ne hat
from 70 10 ~ bushels per acre. What q
lgraud view there Is from this Cornfield
mound of all .he county around. O7ei
yonder IL the Delaware that looks like
a silver thread winding amongst th'
apparent forests in The distance
Right over the woods are the steeplel
Of New Castle. Palmer in view are th'
huge piles OF brick and mortar called
the Almshouse aud the Insaue Asy
lum, for which the honest LAX payers q
New Castle County are paying the in
terest OF three hundred Thousand dol
lars.
To the left is sixteen-acre whea
field. Magnificent wheat The blade
tstrAightened reac he'd above mr. A rIn
tstrong's knees, and all who know hin
must know that his knees are con
isiderAble distance above the terrestrial
lsphere on which he treAds. The sta Tx
and blades of wheat warp aad maj
the ground over in luxurious greer
aipeting that Is most encouraging Il
look at.
But far as the eye can reach, greer
wheat fields come into prominent view
Wheat never looked better al this sea
son OF the year.
But away out yonder at the east ent
of Mr.. Armstrong; b farm is a splendlt
, twenty acre tract of woodland, Lhrougi
|, which a stream meanders Sons OF TN
oaks look as If they might have shell
=, tered the Wawasetts aGd Tib:ated q
the roar of cannon at the battle 0
the Brsndywine. There arc grazinI
fields and truck patches, an apple OF
Z chard and garden. Horses frisk lik
colts, as they kick up their heels Il
r the meadow pastures and sedate, III Al
r nerly COWS chew tho end nf nnntrnl
/. ireJd. he distance Una
Hooks like the marching of militar
company.
Instead Of heads erect, their head
are down, and woe pe to the grasshol
Der that CROSSES their line of marct
All, turkeys who for Thanksgiving an
Christmas bleed, trenble for yot
fate. There are over hundred of then
. and Mr.. Armstrong expects TO reap
geod harvest from them If they escaI
: the turkey thief blight. 4 lutte lei
than q year ago. thieves came along an
lalmoet stripped the hen roosts. Ii the
come this year they Ea1 bet,or loo
out for English bulldogs that yomit ID
and lead.
n Reader, did you ever come across e1
- Sheriff Armstrong to know him.
"a you have, you saw one OF nature
noblemen. Ho has a warm spot In h
"a heart for his friends. Tie wol
:, w elcome" ia not written over u
~ door that leads to his CHEEKY kttch'
and parlors, but ID written In iudelit
characters on his countenance The
is nothing mean in the unbonpo
a hospitality of the ex.Sherif, and hi
at wife Is just like him.
al Let us see: There were three CT l
n, Picksls, of the Ferris Reform Schoo
~ William T. Peters, the nursery ma
x and your humble servant OF the X
IA PUBLICAN. And what a feast! Pick
Is. and Peters, how they ate CHECKER
3; "taters," cold slaugh, "peturnips
by pumpkin and apple pies melted a~
OF like snow fakes under genial san,
nd But we have said so much about b
ArmstronE's farm that but little spf
In left fer US TO describe other farr
AcrGss the road there is Abpsr ID
lingworth's 14o-acre farm, equsl to
"a best In the county.
nu Pickles and Peters having left US
10 10 company with Mr. Armstrong, we CT
.ne cd on Mr. Hollinssworth ard thou
o9P we did not ind him like that old IL
nc, farmer Cincinnstus, following
ies plough, we found him gathering in
ins golden corn. The cyclone struck h
% ~. too and reduced his crop from ~ b
~ dred TO eighty bushels to the a.
L" Those who have read Atkinson's ia
Journal will already feel that Il
,ad know more of Mr.. Holliugsworth q
,ht farmer than we can tell in the few II
Il's OF space we have to spare He is
mid Joining neighbor to MIR Armstrong
y at counterpart as man and faTn
Amongst the good farmers of the nei
.,a borhood, are q bner and Edw
,.na w ood ward, j. II. Hoffecker, The Fe
pu' Reform institution and Henry Wh
" We would like to say more about a
InR them, but time aud spsce will not
!" ~ NIT, and 80 for tho present We 4
and close.
ets. The Parnell Parliament Fun
,ilo.l A number of prominent Irish An
cans met in New York laet evenin
couside. the question OF supporting
parnA'l parlia Fuud. Ell