Squashes ai;(l cuciiiiibers arrived, melons were great. Vou are certainly producing the goods. 



August 1st. 1906. Col. A. G. Peacock, 



Editor, N. Y. Herald. 



I expect to indulge in an old-fashioned country dinner «hen I get home. Vou are a bigger and a better 

 farmer than Horace Greeley ever was. John A. Sleicher, 



August 2d. 1906. Editor, Leslie [Weekly. 



President, Judge Co. 



I was very much surprised to see what a fine lot of vegetables you have raised on what apparently was 

 unproductive soil. I think that the experiment made by the I.org Island Railroad was a very wise one. I have 

 enjoyed watching the progress and development of this undertaking and I feel sure that when the people know 

 how productive the soil is and how comparatively easy and economical the land can be cleared there will be 

 many who wish to acquire good farm holdings within easy access of the City of New York. 



Brooklyn, August 13th, 1906. Judge Wm. J. Youngs. 



The work of the Experimental Station is very interesting and edible. 



September 17th, 1906. Lewis Wiley, 



Adv. Mgr., New York Times. 



The tomatoes were delicious. The first really good tomatoes I had this summer. The novelty of real 

 sugar corn was also delightful to the palate. The radishes were sound ar.d crisp, the beans fine, and the 

 potatoes about as perfect as any I have ever eaten. 



There are many who would appreciate the opportunity to get really fresh vegetables. I think there is an 

 especially good opening in New York for real sugar corn and real lima beans. You have the advantage and can 

 command a higher price for the real thing, which is almost impossible to get in the market or even from the 

 fancy green grocer. Wm. Wirt Mills, 



September loth, 1906. Editor, N. Y. Evening Mail. 



The hamper containing the very attractive samples of your products was duly received. It is work in the 

 right direction and. systematically pursued, cannot fail to prove of lasting benefit, not only to the jiromotcrs, 

 but to the community at large. E. G. Sanborn, 



August 9th, 1906. Editor, The IVortd. 



The melons were fine, first-class, in fact, any term implying excellence may justly be applied to them. 



September 18th. 1906. S. W. Cooper, 



Editor, Brooklyn Daily Eagle. 



It is needless to say that the contents of the baskets were used and enjoyed, which is not .surprising in 

 view of the fact that the entire contents of the baskets were the products of the finest land in the world. I 

 always have been a great believer in Long Island and felt that all it needed was a show. 



August 6th, 1906. Wm. Holmes, Jr., 



Bus. Mgr., N. Y. Press. 



If j'ou are going into the business of furnishing "Home Hampers" I will be able to get you some cus- 

 tomers. ' Wm. a. Deering, 



August 1st, 1906. Adv. Jfgr., N. Y. Sun. 



The "firstlings" of the crop came duly to hand and were highly appreciated. Will you kindly permit me 

 to thank you heartily for the token of your skill as a tiller of the soil and the proof it afforded of the avail- 

 ability of Long Island soil. F. Danna Reed, 



June 12th, 1906. Editor, Brooklyn Daily Eagle. 



I am exceedingly interested in the excellent report concerning the alfalfa experiments. I think the alfalfa 

 has made a most excellent showing. That the results speak well for the possibilities of alfalfa upon this type 

 of Long l>i!and soil when given careful treatment, which appears to be essential. 



September 13th, 1906. J. W. Westgate, 



Asst. Agrostologist, U. S. Dept. Agricultuie. 



From the standpoint of development one of the most inijiortant features of the year's work is the prac- 

 tical demonstration made by the Long Islpiid IJailroad Comimny through neighbor Fulleiton and his able 

 assistants that the wild lands of Suffolk may be made to produce as good fruits, vegetables, and fodder as 

 any man need desire. The theory of "waste lands" on Long Island is knocked higher than a kite. The way 

 is opened for truck farms, fruit farms, daiiy farms, and everj- other kind of a farm in a region which has here- 

 tofore been left to the uses of the rabbit, the deer, and the wild birds. 



— Uncle Jerry W'ockers, in The County Review. 



The above are from representative men, and prove conclusively that the Long Island Railroad's 

 Experimental Station Number 1 produced, within 1 year of clearing, high-grade crops. The publicity 

 given this effort to put the so-called "waste lands" in a condition to take their proper place in the world's 

 work of yielding their full quota of revenue has been so successful, that development is now under way in 

 various sections, and anticipating the rapid development of the thousands of acres of unused land on 

 Long Island along agricultural lines, the Long Island Railroad Company has in hand plans for aiding 

 in the establishment of a produce market where trains from each division of the railroad can be run direct, 

 and thus furnish quick service and an adequate distributing point for the handling of products which 

 will be grown on Long Island soil. 



Most clearly does the following editorial sum up the situation and show the motive underlying the 

 Long Island Railroad's demonstration of the Island's "waste lands" fertility. 



Eden and Arcadia at Home 



Commentators are not, even yet, all agreed upon the location of the Garden of Eden, nor is the local 

 habitation of classic Arcadia as clear as the associations which surround the name. Until quite recently, 

 though, no one, even the most learned or astute, entertained any serious suspicion that either of these inviting 

 or historic localities belonged to Long Island. Within the last few months, however, a movement has been in 

 good faith begun by long-headed, practical business men, few, if any, of whom can be suspected of idealism 

 or rainbow-chasing, which may end b5' the demonstration that the Island on which we live, and of which we 

 know so little, has in it jiossibilities which may yet make it the garden and beauty spot of the entire Atlantic 

 coast, not to say of the whole country. Three fjuarters of a million acres of as fair land as lies outdoors offers 

 inviting, almost unlimited, field for the experiment; the commercial environment is complete — that is to say, 

 the markets and the money rewards are at hand; and so the appeal which is both the beginning and end of 

 the most of the activities of mankind is direct and immediate. Reclamation of what have heretofore been 

 regarded by the lazy and indifferent as merely barren wastes is already inaugurated on broad lines, both for 

 immediate and remote development, with the greatest and most insatiable markets of the world at the very 

 door, ready to pay even the highest prices for everything which the soil can produce. Never, perhaps, has a 

 great industrial operation of unbounded possibilities and reaching into the far future been more advantageously 

 begun than this for the new era oi agricultural Long Island. ICverybody knows that the real estate boom which 

 has inflated values on the western end of the Island, almost to the bursting or breaking point, must sooner or 



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