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acre, was $86.78, at the rate of the surprising sum of $2780 

 per acre, and could easily have been raised to the rate of 

 $4000, and that without the use of any glass whatever. 

 Truly the possibilities of the soil are unknown." 



The cooperative features used by Northeastern Long 

 Island intensive farmers are worthy of imitation. In the 

 community of Riverhead a club buys at wholesale rates 

 commodities which the farm and household require. The 

 club does a large business, and has a high rating in the com- 

 mercial agencies. In another instance at Riverhead an 

 association markets the crop of cauliflower, sending cars of 

 such produce to Cincinnati and Chicago. These are the 

 best forms of cooperation. 



"In the market-gardening sections the banks show pros- 

 perity. In the towns of Riverhead and Southold there are 

 savings banks with deposits of $4,000,000 each, and five 

 business banks which are doing a thriving business. In 

 this stretch of thirty miles on eastern Long Island the farms 

 are mostly free from encumbrance of any kind. 



"It should be noted, however, that their towns have the 

 open Sound with its bays which furnish open ways for trans- 

 portation and an unowned field for work." (From circular 

 of the Long Island Guild of New York City.) 



