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Title: The lure of the land
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Fullerton, Edith Loring, 1876-1931 Long Island Railroad Company. Experimental Station, Wading River, N.Y
Subjects: Agriculture
Publisher: (New York?
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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ds brother of fourteen whom we tookfrom a home, knowing well the value of a boy this age to fetch andcarry. In a few days, Roger and Sophia, a colored couple of some fifty-five summers, appeared. Aunt Sophie was a sweet-faced, gray-hairedlittle bit of a woman, while Uncle Roger was large, rheumatic andjolly. She was a true Southern cook and gave us loads upon loadsof hot bread and fried things in general. Uncle had always been a 69 porter and didnt know a hoe from a shovel. The agricultural instinctis in the race, however, and he soon learned to hill up corn and hoepotatoes in due and ancient form. In spite of all the modern farmmachinery there is a certain amount of hand labor necessary especial-ly in new ground. Peanuts went in early in May, the little Spanish and the hugeMammoth. Walter soon learned to gather radishes, assist in transplantingand made himself generally useful. From the seed-bed were trans-planted 180 kohl rabi, some of the North China products, and EmeraldIsle kale.
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The simple washing-rack and the open air packing-house Radishes were so abundant it kept one of us busy all day washingand packing them. Many were sent direct to one of the big restau-rants, being packed, unbunched, in crates lined with paraffin paper.1,400 radishes to a crate was the average and each radish perfect ofits type. One of our first resolves and firm compacts was that nothingbut the very best that we could produce should leave the farm. There-fore from radishes, right through the season, every variety was sorted,washed or polished according to its needs. On the seventh of June the shipment reads fifty-five bunches fora Huntington grocer, 1,400 loose in a crate to a New York restaurant,and twenty-one bunches each in a paper pot to the History Makersand experts who visited the farm the day the first stump was blownup. 70 Ted and Walter were set bushing peas. We wished to test thetime given to bushing and that to placing a portable wire fence (astrip of wire fastened to sharp

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