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to forty dollars per acre. Farms with house and 

 outbuildings, fences and fruit trees, within three or 

 four miles of a railroad station, of fair quality and 

 in fair condition, may be obtained for from twenty 

 to thirty dollars per acre. The purchaser can take 

 as much or as little land as he wants. Kent and 

 Sussex counties contain much of this description. 



After soil and price have been considered, the vi 

 cinity to market is to be looked at. Here it is near 

 and accessible daily by railroad. Products, such as 

 in the West would perish for want of buyers, here 

 find ready sale at high prices. Philadelphia, New 

 York and Boston, are all reached in a few hours. 

 New lines of railroads and steamboats leading direct 

 to New York, are in progress, and when opened 

 will enlarge the present outlets for all kinds of 

 produce. At certain points along the Delaware 

 Railroad there are large establishments for canning 

 peaches, in which hundreds of hands are employed. 

 That portion of the crop which goes to market from 

 the tree, takes the daily train to New York in the 

 afternoon, and reaches that city by daylight the 

 next morning. 



In some sections there has already been a marked 

 change in the value of real estate, in consequence of 

 the opening of new railroads, and of the public at 

 tention having been directed to these lands. About 

 Middletown, in New Castle county, land which 

 some years ago was thrown out into commons as 

 worthless, cannot be obtained now- for less than one 

 to two hundred dollars per acre. Farms in Kent 

 county, now obtainable at from $15 to $4:0, must 



