Vol. Ill, Number 7 



October 20, 1909 



Lor\g IslaiAcI Agror\orT\ist 



A Fortnightly Record of Facts 



Together With Deductions Based Upon Natures Practical Demonstrations 



Compiled by Hal B. and Edith Loring' Fullerton 

 Publication office, Huntington, Long' Island, New York 



"I do the verj' best I know how — the very best I can; and I mean to keep doing so until 

 the end." — Abraham Lincohi. 



Current Gleanings 



When our food furnishers, one by one, show that they have finished the work set 

 apart by Nature for each of them to do, when the flowers and trees show plainly that 

 having matured their seeds and made certain the continuance of their species they 

 are preparing for the rest they have earned, we two partners invariably size up our 

 work to see if we have done our level best to accomplish our share of that portion of 

 Life's Lot that has been placed in our care. 



This train of thought gives rise to multitudes of thoughts, to plans for bigger 

 achievements when plant growth starts anew, this, coupled as it is with crop time, 

 makes the doleful drawl of dyspeptics and pessimists seem silly. 



Full well we know that like ourselves the "modern methods" soil tillers of Long 

 Island are chanting something Hke this: 



The merry, merry days are here. 



Most joyous of the year. 

 For the bins are full of fodder, 



And the farm is mortgage clear. 



A little later will come the never failing chorus from Long Lsland savings banks, 

 setting forth the big annual increase in soil tillers' deposits. 



This year they will soar higher than ever, for the Long Island Railroad's 1909 

 tonnage for September shows 22,873 tons of potatoes, cauhfiower, and cucumbers 

 by freight alone, against 10,824 tons handled in September, 1905; and train loads of 

 potatoes and cauhfiower are still awaiting gathering; further, express shipments are 

 not included in above figures. A great portion of this increase is known to be directly 

 due to the practical demonstrations of the Railroad's Experimental Stations of spray 

 value, deeper plowing, thorough cultivation, the substitution of barn-yard manure 

 legumes and cover crops for chemical fertilizers, which once threatened to lure our 

 Island neighbors into that "Fool's Paradise" which invariably results in "Abandoned 

 Farms." This shows also that Long Island is coming into her own with startling 

 rapidity. Foreigners brought here by the successful showing of the Experimental 

 Stations, are by their own success, attracting their relatives and neighbors to a newly 

 discovered golconda where nature has brought together all the factors most favorable 

 to an immense range of plant growth that it might feed the many millions populating 

 New York City, destined to be the largest in the world. 



The Long Island Agronomist will be sent upon request to anyone, anywliere, without fear, 

 favor, or finance. 



