No. 11. 



Delaware Lands. 



331 



any of the traders in ice from securing any 

 stock. During the spring and summer 

 months American ice will be in great de- 

 mand. It is sold at ten shillings sterling 

 the cwt., or at two pence per pound at retail. 

 A wareliouse has been prepared at the St. 

 Katharine's dock, in a cool place, and efl'ect- 

 ually protected from the sun and heat, ex- 

 pressly for the storage of American ice, and 

 where it can be immediately deposited on 

 being cleared from the vessel, and remain 

 till the owners remove it to their own ware- 

 houses. The Londoners are just beginning 

 to appreciate American ice, and large quan- 

 tities can readily be sold here at high prices. 



For the Fanners' Cabinet. 



Delaware Lands. 



To THE Editor, — As immigration to Texas, 

 Oregon, or California, is the order of the day, 

 I desire to show that it would be the interest 

 of good practical farmers, to purchase lands 

 in Newcastle county, Delaware, at )^15 to 

 §S30 per acre, or in the Southern part of Ce- 

 cil county, Md., at $10 to S20 per acre. Any 

 practical farmer Vt'ith a small capital, can 

 purchase a farm of good natural soil, well 

 wooded, at, say $20 per acre. Say he pur- 

 chases 300 acres at $20.; this will be $6,000, 

 at an interest annually of $360. Allow 250 

 acres to be tillable land, divided into five 

 fields, — 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 mow, 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 haulmg, 

 spreading and interest. So that any judi- 

 cious man may find it his interest to pur- 

 chase these worn-out lands, and he will re- 

 alize 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 fortunes have 

 been made and are being made, by poor 

 men, who had but little money and but little 

 credit. But by perscnerance, 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 dol- 

 lars. 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-field." Land in Newcastle 



county and in Cecil county, Md., bought 

 ten years ago at $10 and $20 per acre, is 

 now worth $10 to $00, and the owner jiot 

 out of pocket one cent for improvements, 

 beyond the clear income from his improved 

 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. I 

 know of no part of the United States that 

 offers equal advantages to the poor, industri- 

 ous, 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. 



If 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, industry, 

 and capital, we would have the finest im- 

 proved counties in the middle States, and it 

 would be much more to their interest than 

 roving 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 us ; witness the success of Philip 

 Reybold, William J. Ilurlock, William Polk, 

 Andrew Eliason, Eldad Lore, James T. Bird, 

 John Jones, Col. Joshua Clayton, John Biggs, 

 George Harbert, John R. Price, John Mc 

 Cracken, John P. Cochrane, 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, more than the original cost. 



Henry Cazier. 



Mount Vernon Farm, Del., June 2nd, 1846. 



Lard for London. — Happening in at 

 Hastings' Lard-oil Factory, we found them 

 putting up lard in hogs' bladders, for an 

 English dealer. This is the fashionable 

 form of the article of the best quality, in 

 that market, where it brings fifteen cents a 

 pound. The cases come from Ohio, are 

 well cleaned, and when filled and cold, ap- 

 pear as white and as hard as an ostrich's 

 egg. — Springfield Republican. 



The delicate pink spots on turkeys' eggs 

 will wash off" when the egg is fresh and 

 warm. 



