The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1896-02-10
A PARADISE FOR FARMERS.
A Pcnnsylvanian's Idea of Harris
County.
HAS EXAMINED SOIL AND CLIMATE
And Found That Any thing Can Be Grown
Most Profitable of Crops Can
DO Raised.
To the Editor of The Post

the garden spot OF the United States. 1t
| of the area OF the individual farms. our
good old Dutch farmers have practiccd
the slicng process until We have a VERT
able lot of gardens or truck lots
word In explanation may not bc
| amss Tho old settlers who originally
owned two hundred to three hundred acre
farms, as their children matured cut off
a piece of their farm and established
the youngster on said piece. keeping their
people close around them But, alas for
the rising generation. the acres have not
grown In area and AS consequence
they have no more land to cut In half
Question: What shall we do? Where
| shall we go? our young folks are getting
away from us going to the already over
| crowded Eastern cities, learning trades
studyinA professions, some with success.
but the great majority living from hand
To mouth, eking out a mcagcr living
such as they would not have offered to
the servants on the old farm Yet not
complaining Why? Because they know
no better.
But "A great change is taking place
slowly but surely. The people OF the
| North and East are realizing more every
day that the great country west of the
Mississippi Is not the only hahitahlc
country In this great and glorious Union
otbor nlonf tbo ,,r,f cons, ,,,I, Ia. ,,.,',,
have not coon n nerh,,s ,,,n co., ,ort,,
must he all sand like tho Jersey coast:
we don't want to 20 there" Could they
but be here with inc and have gone over
the ground with me for the last month.
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! n"'Hy h1n" nov 10 express myself so
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nc s'n ~ "1I'r man ! expected to soc
az" nav not ou'N "iiN'n ana walked
| W. ~ 'u. ! nhNe Jug II up ana stnh'od
| ,ne c'ou'en'H OF u 70 'he hest OF my ahll-
NY ana ma II r'eh IN latent material to
/ pr"uucc enun''nce or vegetation without
teruhH"r i'f perhaps several Years NOW,
, uoHt want 20 re uhd'f'tood as not be
nrVlnE IN tertih2ing' Tor certainly do,
II aone luiie'ously FWat hnd what the
soll hcedS 10 produce the crop YOU want
To grow and use INIT with discretion and
/ You WIN never TAM Ia get the best results
| on'ain"hle' also always remember that
| thorough cultivation Is hs good as coat
| OF manure. ] have found land here ami
| didn't 20 far 10 hunt ~ that Will guar
aut'e Will produce as much-yes half
again oa much-as our Pennsylvania land
If bundled ma our land Is
Then the climate here permits the har-
vcstiug of two crops q season, which is
utterly impossible In the North
The natural elements of soil and eli
mate are such here that this country Is
a verltahle farmers paradise" and the
sooner thCV realize II the hotter of thpV