AND WHERE TO FIND ONE. 



in value within a few years, while that within the 

 neighborhood, though still wild, has advanced in 

 price at least three to four fold. 



The natural quality of the soil of this whole sec 

 tion of New Jersey has been long established as 

 good. Its means for improvement are abundant 

 and cheap, in consequence of the vast deposits of 

 marl. You see these deposits cropping out by the 

 road-side, in some places far above the water level. 

 The area of this marl deposit covers 900 square 

 miles, or 576,000 acres, and its benefits are shared 

 by a large district of country lying on each side of 

 it, so that a much greater area than that stated may 

 be fertilized by using it. It has been worth mil 

 lions of dollars to the State in the increased value 

 of land and produce. It has long been known that 

 Monmouth county potatoes, grown with marl as 

 manure, command half a dollar more per barrel 

 in New York market than any other kind. Mr. 

 Cook s report on the geological and agricultural 

 resources of this portion of the State, made in 185T, 

 informs us, that while the potato crop of Connect 

 icut, New York, and Pennsylvania, has diminished, 

 that of New Jersey and Delaware has largely in 

 creased. This increase in New Jersey was mostly 

 in the counties of Monmouth, Burlington, Camden, 

 Gloucester, Salem, and Cumberland, the counties in 

 which marl is found, while in the other counties the 

 gain was small, and in some there was a material 

 falling off. In Delaware, Newcastle county, where 

 marl is found, shows the largest gain. In New 

 York, only three counties showed an increase. 



