. The lure of the land; the history of a market-garden and dairy plot developed within eight months upon Long island's idle territory . xchanged the milk pail for the coupon-cuttingscissors. At Glen Cove, between Oyster Bay and Hem])stead, and at Amityvillethe rapid settlement by the wealthier classes continued and as transportationfacilities were increased, the home-seeker of more modest means followed, untilthe territory up to the Suffolk line was dotted thickly with growing villages, nowfor the greater part suburban wards. Suffolk was an unknown country sparselysettled and devoted mainly to
. The lure of the land; the history of a market-garden and dairy plot developed within eight months upon Long island's idle territory . xchanged the milk pail for the coupon-cuttingscissors. At Glen Cove, between Oyster Bay and Hem])stead, and at Amityvillethe rapid settlement by the wealthier classes continued and as transportationfacilities were increased, the home-seeker of more modest means followed, untilthe territory up to the Suffolk line was dotted thickly with growing villages, nowfor the greater part suburban wards. Suffolk was an unknown country sparselysettled and devoted mainly to farming. The natural eastward trend, however,which started in Colonial days, has not abated, the newcomers in Suffolk as a ruleselecting their home sites near the islands shores, leaving the interior stillunsubdued. Topographically the islands surface is most varied. Its north shore iscomposed of wooded hills dropping abruptly to the waters of the sound, and slopinggradually to the ocean shore leaving its central section a gently undulating and veryeasily tilled territory. Its climate is remarkably temperate, records showing the. B Sh a > i range between May and October to be 56 in October and but in July. The waterssurrounding the island tempering the heat in summer as well as the cold in records show between 10 to 15 degrees in favor of Long Island. Governmentreport shows the average date of killing frosts on Long Island to be October 20th,about one month later than in Brooklyn or New York. The same report showsthat in the year 1898 there were 312 sunshiny days, a record only claimed in suchsemi-tropical states as California or Florida, such statistics explain in part whyLong Island is the most favored spot on the Atlantic coast. It is the only landlying directly across the prevailing south-west winds of summer, which blowingfrom the ocean reach it unobstructed and uncontaminated. Its soil is known tothe geologist as Norfolk sandy loam, varying in depth fr
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