Middletown transcript., 1908-10-31
DELAWARE LANDS

The following item is taken from The
Farmers Cabinet of 1S46, and will be of
great interest to our readers.
To THE EDIToR-As immigration to
Texas, Oregon, or California, is the order
of the day, desire to show that it would
be the interest of good practical farmers,
to purchase lands lin New Castle county,
Delaware, at $l5 to $50 per acre, or in
the Southern part Of Cecil county, Nd,
at $40 to $40 per acre. Amy practical
farmer with small capital, can purchase
farm of good natural soil, we'll wooded,
at, say $40 per acre. Say he purchases
800 acres at 500; this will be Sc, 600, at an
interest annually of $3.50. Allow $50
acres to be tillable land, divided into five
felds,-50 acres to be- woodland-one
field to be planted in corn, one to be
sowed with oats, after corn; and one
sowed with wheat on a clover sod; and
one field to NOW, and one for pasture,
Any prudent, industrious working man,
can lime and clover this land, and he
will receive in two years, or in two crops,
on all the fields, as much grain and grass,
over and above all which the land would
have produced without lime or clover, as
will pay for the lime and cost of hauling,
spreading and interest So that any judi
cious man may find it his interest to pur-
chase these worn-out lands, and he will
realize more clear profit than he would if
he immigrated to the far West or South.
In this county the water is good, and
the citizens are healthy, and large for
tunes have been made and are being
made. by poor men, who had but little
money and but little credit. But by per-
severance, they have in many instances
purchased farm after farm; made them
good; built fine houses and good barns on
them, and are worth ten, twenty, forty,
sixty, and one hundred thousand dollars.
What has been done can be done again;
like causes will produce like effects: ''The
way to wealth is as plain as the road to
the corn-feld." Land in New Castle
county and in Cecil county, Nd, bought
ten years ago at $40 and 500 per acre, is
now worth $40 to $50, and the owner not
out of pocket one cent for improvements,
beyond the clear income from his inn
proved lands. The crops will double in
two years, from the use Of forty bushels
of lime per acre; in five years they will
increase so as to sell for three times the
original cost. ! know Of no part of the
United States that offers equal advant-
ages to the poor, industrious, judicious,
go-ahead man, whose motto should be
"be sure you are right, then go ahead"
The Schuylkill lime is generally used in
this region; but lime from Baltimore, and
from New York and Delaware, have all
been used with uniform success. Shell
lime is also equally good on our soil.
Plaster should be used on clover, at the
rate of one bushel per acre, annually.
The clover should be ploughed in for
wheat on the poor lands. Wheat should
be sowed in all cases by the first week in
September
II some OF the farmers OF Pennsylvania,
New Jersey, New York, or New England.
would come and purchase the worn.out
lands. and aid US by their talents, indus.
try, and capital, we would have the finest
improved counties in the middle States.
and it would be much more to their in
terest than rowing over the United States
and other countries, for a resting place. |
and after they get it, are far worse off |
than those who have come among ne:
witness the success of Philip Reybold:
William ]. Hurlock, William Polk, An
drew Eliason, Eldad Lore, James T.
Bird, John Jones, Col. Joshua Clayton.
John Biggs, George Harbert, John r.
Price, John McCracken. John P. Coch.
rane, and many others, who have made
their farms good and acquired handsome
profits by small investments, their lands
are worth two hundred to four hundred
per cent. morethan the original cost.
HENRY CAzIER.
Mount Vernon Farm, Del, June ?, 1886. !