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practical farmers. There are wealthy families in 

 Vineland who remain there because of the mildness 

 of the climate and healthfullness of the place. Taken 

 altogether, the settlement has an old and cultivated 

 look already. 



The soil of this great tract varies from a sandy to 

 clay loam, is retentive of manures, and abundantly 

 productive. It produces from 100 to 250 bushels 

 of potatoes per acre, 15 to 25 of wheat, though the 

 premium crop for wheat in Cumberland county, in 

 1855, was 44 bushels per acre. Of shelled corn, 50 

 to 75 bushels is the ordinary crop, and two tons of 

 grass. Fruit trees and vines bear abundantly. I 

 saw new peach orchards of thrifty growth, some 

 trees showing fruit, and grape vines giving promise 

 of abundant crops. The winters are so mild as to 

 allow out-of-door work nearly all through them. 

 Mr. Landis told me that for seven years he had not 

 known the ploughing to be interrupted, by reason 

 of frost, for five days in any one winter. All kinds 

 of fruits are cultivated, the five and ten acre lots 

 being mostly devoted to the smaller descriptions. 

 All such are planted so that the picking will come 

 in succession, thus strawberries, raspberries, black 

 berries, peaches, grapes, apples, &c. 



In driving many miles over Vineland, I entered 

 into conversation with numerous settlers at work by 

 the roadside. Most of these happened to be farm 

 ers from the West, from New England, and western 

 New York. All were busy on their growing crops, 

 sometimes in groups of two or three in the corn 

 field. Not one of them but expressed his prefer- 



