Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 September 1895 — Terrapin Farming. [ARTICLE]

Terrapin Farming.

A deed of Cornfield Harbor, one of the best known estates of Southern Maryland, owned by Col. 8. I. Walles, from Mra M. E. Davison to N. 8. Ackerly, of Long Island, has been filed for record in the office of the Clerk of Land Records of St Mary’s County. This property of about acres

of upland and seven acres of oyster creeks. The property is situated about a mile and a half from Point Lookout, and has a frontage of about three and a half miles on the Potomac River. In one of the creeks, especially, known as Potter’s creek, it is said, as fine oysters as any in the world can be grown. Mr. Ackerly has taken a great interest in the artificial cultivation of oysters. He has been quietly experimenting with a view to determining the value of these oyster lands, if properly cultivated. On the property is a large fresh-water pond, which has been connected with the creek by aj canal,' so tllat tbe pond may be made the, cultivation of diamond-back terrtipin, *which, when complete, good jtidges, think will be about the best and Iflffgest of its kind in the country,—‘Baltimore American.