San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1883-11-01

The superior advantages when ieAh'
offers 10 grain farming are no less I'M
porluut than in stock raising, Fertilily
oi soil being equal, the essential oiu'
ments Ot successful farming are econ
omy Of time aud labor. Every duy spent
ia blowing, sowing aud harvesting ~ n
source OF profit, while every day spent
in meeting the demands OF winter II
consuming tax. About 0ne-huli OF the
time Of northern farmers may DO de-
voted 10 productive labor, nnd the 9th
or halt To waste or IN consuming tue
products OF summer. How different I'D
This climate, where the farmer msy drive
his plow, his secder or his reuper twelve
mouths in each year While ice bound
| in the North, here we may pillow or SOW
almost without interruption. O0em an.
at less expense Tor machinery, eau here
perform annually the productive labor
TINT will require two or three to per
form in winter bound regions. Con-
sidering this most important element OF
profit in farming. why choose new
| home where even two or three months
each yeay must be worse than wasicdY
Not ouly IN the absence Of winter,
but in diversified products, does the
farmer fnd profitable employ OF time.
Soil aud oil mate suited 10 the raising
OF but one or two kinds OF crops must
limit the farmer TO very short plant
ing season. In proportion as a man
COWS shall he be benefited to reap,
Many sections OF Kansas, Nebraska,
Iowa aud Illinois aro only adnp,cd to
corn raising, and the planting season is
limited TO ubou; two weeks. The same
holds true in mapy sections of the North,
where wheat is the only rciioble crop
How restricted the productive labor sea
ron where such is the fact. " here even
II greater number Of C: ops can BIO raised.
there is little advantage gained II the
planting OF the same must be done at
about the sume time. a man cannot
plant only in proportion AZ he has had
time to plow, SO that where the pillow is
ice bound until in April or the first OF
May, spring plouehiog and planting
comes on mt the same time.
How different again in Texas, where
The farmer is given two months IN the
fall for wheat sowing, one month in the
winter for sowing wheat. oats and bar ley.
two months in the spring for planting,
leaving still ample time for plourhinv
and harvesting TO the above crops
may he added all the other, crops grown
on this continent, and scarcely any two
need come in conflict Tor seasonnble
pIanti & or harvesting, properly deversi
fed.
Another great advantage offered in
Texas to the man who has not The
means to buy large farm, is the Hdapta
ton of soil und climate 10 double crop
ping ench year. Cotton, corn Or millet
may be planted on II stubblc Ia the
81 ring, IRON which has just been taken
a very heavy crop of wheat, oats or
barley. as the above grains may be har-
vested by the first OF May. Then in the
fall Or winter of the same year, wheat,
oats or barley may be rcsown on the
same land, with a repetition OF crops the
spring. 1t will thus be seen
that one acre of rich Texas land will
yield twice the products annually and
give net profit four fold greater.
These superior money making advnnt
ages to be secured 10 Texas from any
uiven cash cnpitul great or small, are
Tho Inconvenience,
sacrifices, and privations are certainly
40 greater in this than in any other
state. Whether person chooses a
frontier home, or n home within the
limits of well settled districts, railroad
advantages, schools and churches, he
can secure any fixed grade Of land in
Texas at less price than the same is
offered in any other state. Within TWO
to ten miles OF thriving rilroad towrs,
in tho midst of improved farms, choice
lands, beautiful and healthy. can be
bought at from 50 to $40 per acre, the
prices varying us well from circumstances
of the owners as from difference in
quantity. Space forbids our mentioning
many points in this argument, but in
our candid Judgment, the intelligent
iarmer and citizen will find good and
sufficient reasons why he should invest
md locnte in Texas. rather than In any
,ther state Teas Products and Pro-