The population is mostly native, five sixths white, one sixth colored.  The white population is almost entirely of Anglo Saxon descent.

“Perfect titles may be secured, but all titles everywhere should always be searched by a competent lawyer, the usual fee for which is ten to twenty dollars.

“Farm hands receive from twenty to twenty-five dollars per month and board, for a season of nine or ten months, sometimes for the whole year.  Day hands receive from seventy-five cents to two dollars per day and board themselves.”

Those who are tempted by the advertisements for fruitpickers should beware.  Delaware, like some other states, allows fees to constables and to the “squires”—­Justices of the Peace they would be elsewhere—­for arrests, and it is a common practice to advertise for fruit pickers, then arrest them as tramps when they come, and the next day release them on condition that they will leave the county at once—­and leave the trap open for the next comer.

Delaware peaches have made fortunes for many, but will make still greater fortunes in the future for the owners of the land.

Pears, plums, grapes, watermelons, and cantaloupes thrive, and find an ideal home, and small fruits all flourish.  Sweet potatoes yield bountifully and are of the finest quality.  Asparagus and early white potatoes pay handsome profits.  Tomatoes, the great canning crop, are grown by the thousands of acres.

“The grasses and clovers grow in luxuriance, and hence dairying and beef production are profitable.  Poultry pays as well as anywhere else; chickens often run on green clover all through the open winter.

“The game consists of various species of ducks, quails, reed birds, hares, marsh rabbits, and other small creatures.  Shad, trout, herring, crocus, black bass, pike, white fish, rock fish, oysters, clams, crabs, and terrapin are abundant in Delaware waters.”

The tax in the rural counties is generally sixty cents on the hundred dollars.  Besides this there are taxes on business and a very light school tax.  There is no state tax, yet the state makes large appropriations for the support of the public schools, which are free to everybody.

Maryland has established a State Bureau of Immigration in Baltimore to give information to home seekers, and advise them as to choice of location, opportunities for getting started in agricultural production, and aid them in any way consistent with a State Bureau.  Most of these facts are taken from such reports.

Southern Maryland and the eastern shore are especially adapted to gardening and trucking, as well as fruit growing.  Land is cheap and can be purchased in tracts of any size from an acre upwards, at from ten to fifty dollars per acre.  Farms from twenty acres to seven hundred acres and up are for sale in nearly every county in the state.  The removal of a large part of the negro population from the country to the cities has resulted in the partition of the large estates into smaller farms, thus affording an opportunity for home seekers who are seeking cheap land amid congenial surroundings.  Nearly all of these farms have buildings, some in need of repair, others in very good condition.