News From White Oak Bottom, 1866
NEW JERSEY COURIER 27 SEP 1866
A few days since we visited this locality, which is well known for it's fertility, and fine soil. Accompanied by Mr. John H. Irons, one of the most thorough farmers in thsi vicinity, we commenced observations and taking notes at Mr. Irons' Sarghum Mill. Here is a fine establishment erected for the purpose of enabling farmers to raise their own molasses. We were shown samples of Sorghum Syrup, perfectly free from any rank taste, whatever, and fully equal to the best syrups offered in market. We also saw on Mr. Iron's farm 35 acres of peach blow potatoes averaging 100 bushels to the acres, where six years ago a dense forest grew. Six years ago, he had but eight acres cleared, and under cultivation. To-day, he has 175 acres of beautiful land grubbed, stumped, and nicely covered with grain, corn, potatoes, sorghum, fruit, and grass. This undertaking was deemed by many as a hazardous one, but they knew not their man. Mr. Iron's farm to-day is worth thousands of dollars, and he has brought it up to it's present high state of cultivation, by using marl,limeand grass-seed alone. These are Mr. Iron's favorite fertilizers, and they conclusively show that these articles can be depended upon to bring good crops.
From Mr. Iron's farm, we came upon Mr. Samuel Polhemus, and here we found good and sufficient encouragement for small farmers. We here saw six acres of land, which three years ago, was cleared up, and during these three years, crops of buckwheat, rye, potatoes and wheat have been gathered. These crops have paid for grubbing, cutting, stumping, plowing, marl, and labor, in fact, for every cent, which has been expended upon them, and left a balance to their credit, in their owner's hands of over $300 net. Now we doubt if any other business pays better than farming, and we commend this case to the special attention of small farmers. Mr. Polhemus, last year raised from one acre, 219 gallons Sorghum molasses, which certainly shows that there is profit in it.
James Johnson has a fine brickyard, and fine looking brick, also a beautiful field of sugar cane.
John R. Johnson, also has a fine farm in this locality.
Henry Kinear, a German, has acquired a comfortable independence here. He started a few years ago, working for his neighbors at 50 cents a day, and is now comfortably well off. Think of that ye sons of toil, and fresh courage take.
We soon brought up at the Seven Stars, on the Bricksburg tract, in fact we had been in the edge of that tract all the while, for we found good land. We traveled down the new turnpike, and called on Mr. George W. Chandler, who had purchased of the Bricksburg Company, and had commenced clearing up his land. The soil was very good, of the first quality, and Mr. Chandler is to be congratulated upon his selection.
The new turnpike ordered by the last court, and since located, connecting Toms River with the new Bricksburg Turnpike, has been cut through for about a mile, from its connection.
A few days since we visited this locality, which is well known for it's fertility, and fine soil. Accompanied by Mr. John H. Irons, one of the most thorough farmers in thsi vicinity, we commenced observations and taking notes at Mr. Irons' Sarghum Mill. Here is a fine establishment erected for the purpose of enabling farmers to raise their own molasses. We were shown samples of Sorghum Syrup, perfectly free from any rank taste, whatever, and fully equal to the best syrups offered in market. We also saw on Mr. Iron's farm 35 acres of peach blow potatoes averaging 100 bushels to the acres, where six years ago a dense forest grew. Six years ago, he had but eight acres cleared, and under cultivation. To-day, he has 175 acres of beautiful land grubbed, stumped, and nicely covered with grain, corn, potatoes, sorghum, fruit, and grass. This undertaking was deemed by many as a hazardous one, but they knew not their man. Mr. Iron's farm to-day is worth thousands of dollars, and he has brought it up to it's present high state of cultivation, by using marl,limeand grass-seed alone. These are Mr. Iron's favorite fertilizers, and they conclusively show that these articles can be depended upon to bring good crops.
From Mr. Iron's farm, we came upon Mr. Samuel Polhemus, and here we found good and sufficient encouragement for small farmers. We here saw six acres of land, which three years ago, was cleared up, and during these three years, crops of buckwheat, rye, potatoes and wheat have been gathered. These crops have paid for grubbing, cutting, stumping, plowing, marl, and labor, in fact, for every cent, which has been expended upon them, and left a balance to their credit, in their owner's hands of over $300 net. Now we doubt if any other business pays better than farming, and we commend this case to the special attention of small farmers. Mr. Polhemus, last year raised from one acre, 219 gallons Sorghum molasses, which certainly shows that there is profit in it.
James Johnson has a fine brickyard, and fine looking brick, also a beautiful field of sugar cane.
John R. Johnson, also has a fine farm in this locality.
Henry Kinear, a German, has acquired a comfortable independence here. He started a few years ago, working for his neighbors at 50 cents a day, and is now comfortably well off. Think of that ye sons of toil, and fresh courage take.
We soon brought up at the Seven Stars, on the Bricksburg tract, in fact we had been in the edge of that tract all the while, for we found good land. We traveled down the new turnpike, and called on Mr. George W. Chandler, who had purchased of the Bricksburg Company, and had commenced clearing up his land. The soil was very good, of the first quality, and Mr. Chandler is to be congratulated upon his selection.
The new turnpike ordered by the last court, and since located, connecting Toms River with the new Bricksburg Turnpike, has been cut through for about a mile, from its connection.
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