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The Prince of Peach Groivers, as Major Reybold^ has 

 been called, lives in this county. It is said that he and 

 his family realised $30,000 in one year, from their exten- 

 sive orchards. Certain it is that their industry, enter- 

 prise, and improvements have added hundreds of thou- 

 sands of dollars' value to the neighborhood, where they 

 have bid the earth bring forth its fruits, whereby the 

 tillers thereof have been enabled to build themselves luxu- 

 riant mansions, and partake of such enjoyments of life as 

 those who cultivate the soil are justly entitled. 



Neiv-Oxfordshire Sheep. — The most extensive and 

 most superior flock of long-wooled sheep, perhaps, in this 

 country, is owned by Mr. Clayton B. Reybold. He has 

 fattened some wethers to weigh 300 pounds, and has 

 often sheared fleeces of 10 or 12 pounds of clean wool, the 

 quality of which is not, as is generally supposed, coarse 

 and unfit for anything but blankets and carpets. There 

 is very little difference beween Oxford, Lincolnshire, 

 Cotswold, and other names of all the long-wooled family. 

 The difference is in the breeding and care of flocks. This 

 flock is well kept and bred with care and skill. 



Reclaiming Salt Marsh. — The Messrs. Reybold have 

 made some attempts to reclaim the salt marshes along 

 the Delaware, and have met with the same difficulty 

 everywhere experienced ; that is, sinking of the soil after 



* Major Philip Reybold, first of this name to settle in Delaware, 

 a practical and scientific farmer near New Castle. Connected for 

 a time with the steamboat lines on the Delaware River, and owner 

 of the steamer "Major Reybold," which plied between Philadelphia 

 and Salem, New Jersey. Owned several farms in Kent County. 

 With his son, Clayton B. Reybold, early began reclaiming marsh 

 lands. Raised, exhibited, and sold fine long-wooled sheep. In 1846 

 was succeeded by Clayton Reybold as owner of the Reybold flock. 

 Philip Jr., Barney, and Anthony Reybold, sons of Major Philip, 

 maintained extensive orchards and specialized in peach culture. 

 See biographical sketch of his grandson, Clayton B. Reybold (born 

 1847), in Biographical and Genealogical History of Delaware, 

 1:261; Americayi Agriculturist, 9:326 (October, 1850) ; 10:18 (Jan- 

 uary, 1851); American Farmer, 4th series, 1:337 (May, 1846); 

 2:14 (July, 1846); 7:137-38 (October, 1851); The Plough, the 

 Loom, and the Anvil, 3:586-87 (March, 1851). 



