The lure of the land; the history of a market-garden and dairy plot developed within eight months upon Long island's idle territory

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COPVRIGHT DEPOSIT.

Preface to Second Edition

THE large first edition of the "Lure of the Land" has been exhausted for some time.

As requests for the book come with nearly every mail, the management of the railroad has decided to issue another edition.

There have been no changes in the book beyond the correction of typographical errors, obscure points made more definite, and the addition of one chapter entitled "Aftermath," which tells of the further success of the Long Island Railroad Company's Experimental Station No. 1, and a brief outline of the development and equally great success of its Experimental Station No. 2.

I wish here to thank the many people from many climes who have written me such delightful letters of appreciation, and to those whom the "Lure of the Land" really lured to Long Island, I wish God Speed.

Edith Loring Fullerton.

October 24th, 1909

"Prosperity Farm"

Long Island Railroad Company's

Experimental Station No. 2

Medford, Long Island

"Scrub Oak Waste," the raw material, 1905