San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1883-10-11
Why GO 10 Texas ?
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The superior advantages which Texas
offers to grain farming are no less I'M
portant than in stock raising, Fertility
of soil being equal, the essential ele-
ments of successful farming are econ
omy of time and labor. Every day spent
in blowing, sowing and harvesting IS
source of profit, while every day spent
in meeting the demands OF winter, is
consuming tax. About one-half OF the
time of northern farmers may be de-
voted to productive labor, and the 9th
or half to waste or in consuming the
urodncts of summer. How different IN
this climate, where the farmer may drive
his blow, his seeder or his reaper twelve
months in each year While ice bound
in the North, here we may pillow or SOW
almost without interruption. Onen an,
at less expense for machinery, can here
perform annually the productive labor
that will require two or three to per-
form in winter, bound regions. Con-
siderirg this most important element OF
profit in farming, why choose new
home where even two or three months
each year must be worse than wasted ?
Not only in the absence Of winter,
but in diversified products, does the
farmer find profitable employ Of time.
Soil and climate suited to 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
sows shall he be benefited to reap.
Many sections of Kansas, Nebraska,
Iowa and Illinois are only adapted to
| corn raising, and the planting season is
limited to about two weeks. The same
holds true in many sections of the North,
where wheat is the only reliable crop.
How restricted the productive labor sea-
son where such is the fact. W here even
greater number Of crops can be raised,
there is little advantage gained ii the
planting OF the same must be done at
about the same time. a man cannot
plant only in proportion as he has had
time to plow, so that where the pillow is
ice bound until in April or the first of
May, spring ploughiDg and planting
comes on at 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 barley.
two months in the spring for planting,
leaving still ample time for ploughing
and harvesting. To the above crops
may be added all the other crops grown
on this continent, and scarcely any two
need come in conflict for seasonable
planting or harvesting, properly deyersi-
fed.
Another great advantage offered 10
Texas to the man who has not the
means to buy large farm, is the adapta-
ton of soil and climate to double crop
ping each year. Cotton, corn or millet
may be planted on a stubble Ia the
String, from which has just been taken
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 resown Gu the
same land, with a repetition of crops the
following spring. 1t will thus be seen
that one acre Of rich Texas land will
yield twice the products annually and
give a net profit four-iold greater.
These SUPERIOR money making advant-
ages to be secured in Texas from any
given cash capital, great or small, are
incontroyertib.e. The Inconvenience.
sacrifices, and privatioBs are certainly
no greater in this than 10 any other
state. Whether a person chooses q
frontier hone, or a home within TIE
limits of well settled districts, railroad
advantages, schools and churches. he
czn seizure auy fixed grade Of land IN
Texas at less price than the sane Is
oEersd in any other state. Within two