702 [Assembly 



Two tracts were bought at Hicksville, last spring, immediately put 

 under cultivation, and now have buckwheat growing with great pro- 

 mise of a good crop. Corn and potatoes are growing with much 

 vigor on tracts recently put under culture, as promising as any fa- 

 raer wishes to see at this season. A tract of these Plains taken up 

 "a year or two since, produced twenty- five bushels of wheat to the acre. 



Milk to the amount of 1500 quarts, leaves Hicksville daily, from 

 cows pastured on those Plains. 



A growth of herds grass was measured by a party of our train at 

 Wampmissic, of 5 feet 8 inches in height. 



The 140 bushels mentioned in the first part of this report as pro- 

 duced from an acre of a tract near Riverhead, that was reported 

 barren when taken and put under cultivation, referred to ears of corn, 

 equal to 70 bushels of shelled corn. Numerous facts like these were 

 obtained from most undoubted sources. Silk is now produced in 

 several places with good profit. Could a company be organized for 

 silk growing, with a large capital, and suitable location selected, for 

 which there are now great opportunities of choice on these lands, 

 there is not a doubt that most successful profits would crown the en- 

 terprise. We know of some peculiar favorable facilities for such an 

 investment. 



The following gentlemen composed the delegation on this excur- 



sion: 



J^ew-York city. — Ogden Edwards, John L. Lawrence, James 

 Renwick, F. A, Pentz, Adoniram Chandler, Dr. Manley, D. E. Ty- 

 lee, Henry A. Field, B. Aycrigg, Dr. Van Hovenberg, Moses G. 

 Leonard, John G. Mapes, Alanson Nash, Edward Ellsworth, John 

 McCoy, David Logan, Edwin Williams, Ralph Hall, James M. Pat- 

 terson, W. C. Hull, John F. Ropes, A. H. Guernsey, H. C. Wester- 

 velt, H. B. Chapman, R. T. Underhill, Henry C. Banks, James M. 

 Classen, J. W. Smith, F. D. Clarke, A. C. Van Ebbs, W. C. Yar- 

 wood. Dr. A. Smith, A. B. Allen, James Alcock, Geo. H. Nelson, 

 J. H. Stout, Robert Sealy, Philip Schuyler, Henry Meigs, T. B. 

 Wakeman, W. A. F. Pentz, Barnabas Bates, John A. Sidell, Reu- 

 ben Ellis, James De Peyster, John D. Williamson, J. W. Chambers, 

 T. P. Shoals, Wm. Stebbins, Rev. Mr. Douglass, L. D. Dewey, 

 Geo. Boyd, W. G. Hamilton, Samuel Griffing, Alex Stewart, Maj. 

 Meeks, W. E. Dean, Wilson Fuller, W. W. Lyon, Dr. Hyatt, W. 



