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man will plow an acre a day of this land, each way ; then plow a 

 compost offish and soil, with fifty ponnds of potash dissolved in 

 water, to the acre. He has seen very excellent crops of wheat, 

 cranberries, &c., raised on this land. 



Mr. Solon Robinson said a friend of his had the refusal of 200 

 acres of the land for eight dollars per acre. Mr. Spence knows a 

 person who owns sixteen acres ; he refuses one hundred dollars 

 per acre. 



Mr. Bergen asked if the land improved by cultivation ? 



Mr. Spence replied that it did. The scrub oak, after being 

 cut, has grown eight inches in four months, on his place. 



Mr. Bergen asked, what use was made of the wood ? 



Dr. Peck. — It is often spoken for, beforehand, by blacksmiths 

 and others ; and spoke at length on the land. The Hicksville 

 depot is 150 feet above tide water ; wells there are ninety feet 

 deep ; the land descending. Hempstead Plains he considers the 

 best land in the State. 



Mr. Robinson said there was no difficulty in plowing these lands 

 as is found in plowing prairie land. 



Dr. Snebly had explored these lands, and wrote a pamphlet on 

 them, which was shown. Two tons of hay had been raised to an 

 acre, on this land, that had received no manure for seven years. 

 Peaches had been raised at the rate of 1000 baskets on thirty 

 acres. One man has 1000 acres, spends $1000 a year on it, and 

 has reaped $10,000 from it. 



Mr. Carpenter. — The land, from the specimen shown, is capa- 

 ble of being brought to great perfection by cultivation, by proper 

 culture in using manure adapted to its wants. He would prefer 

 this land to much that is in Westchester county. 



Dr. Peck. — Give this land the same culture that is given to 

 land in Queens county, or other parts, and it will be excelled by 

 none. 



Mr. Carpenter. — There is an advantage in this land; it will 

 retain what is put on it in the form of manure. He liked it on that 

 account. 



Prof. Nash. — On seven-eights of an acre he knew forty dollars 

 of cranberries raised. The higher the land the deeper the loam. 

 The valleys were less deep ; forty inches on the high to six on 

 the low land. 



The question of the day was then taken up, viz : the 



