“Delaware also offers unequalled opportunities to immigrants.  It is ideally situated on the Atlantic Ocean and the Delaware Bay, and is penetrated by numerous creeks and rivers.

“The railroad, steam, and electric facilities of the State are developing steadily year by year, while every section of the State possesses easily navigable streams, with vessels for carrying freight and passengers.

“Over fifteen millions of people live within a radius of three hundred miles; the large majority reside in cities and towns and furnish the finest markets in the world.  Within five hundred miles are more than one third of the people of all North America.

“Wilmington is a city of seventy-five thousand people, is growing rapidly, and is becoming a great manufacturing place.

“These people may be reached in one day by the luscious fruits that grow in Delaware, and every one of them is perfectly happy when he gets a Delaware peach.  Many other Delaware products are as good as the peaches.

“As cattle and wheat raising developed in the great West, Delaware people thought that they were ruined.  They did not change at once, but slowly discovered that the light lands are wonderfully productive of fruits and vegetables, and that they pay much better than cattle and grain ever could.  But these new methods have not been adopted in all parts of the State, so that land neglected and unprofitable is for sale.  The tides of immigration have swept westward and left Delaware untouched.  Men, money, and enterprise are needed.

" There are few unoccupied or ‘abandoned’ farms in Delaware.”  The land is mostly held by descendants of the early settlers, who form a species of landed aristocracy.  Lately, owing to the younger members of these families having become established in the newer states and on account of the death or incapacity of the older members left in possession, there has been a marked tendency to sell off these farms.  However, “a large proportion of the farms in Delaware are not for sale at any price.  Some of them have been in the same family for generations, and if put on the market would sell for from one to two hundred dollars per acre.”

The soil is all the way from a heavy white oak clay, which is too stiff and too sticky for most crops, to very light sand.

The heaviest clay is made lighter and more porous, and the lightest sand is readily made retentive of moisture and extremely productive, by plowing in different kinds of crops as green manure, such as cow peas, soy beans, the vetches, etc.; crimson clover, winter oats, rye, turnips, and numerous other crops may be sown in August or later, and produce a fine crop for turning under early in the spring.  Crimson clover grows nearly all winter.  Pure cold water is reached at from twenty to fifty feet by dug or driven wells.

The climate is good; there are no cyclones.  There is some damp weather in winter, but there are no malignant fevers, and there is little or no malaria, except in a few marshy places.  There are some mosquitoes and flies, but they are not especially troublesome, and there are no poisonous reptiles.