The San Angelo press. (San Angelo, Tex.) 1897-1907, 1905-03-09

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mate are not as favorable as yours
in Southwest Texas, but ne diver
sites; he farms intelligently.
Corn is his great surplus money
crop, but he lives at home. and
sells something every day"
Texas should not only raise
enough corn to supply her own
needs, but the corn crop should
bring us much money into the
state rs cotton. The corn crop
of Texas for 1904 was valued at
S71. 0S5. 403, being third in value
in the United States. With the
markets Of the world at our door,
through our seaports we have ali
advantage over any other agricul-
tural state i'll the union. Diver
slfy your cotton, your fruit,
your truck, your rice farms, with
hogs, corn and alfalfa; there is Il
cash market for them every day
i'll the year.
BUTTER.
Texas has more cattle than any
other state, and nearly 100000
milk cows, yet imports SIS, 900
900 Of creamery butter from the
north and west every year 1t
seems to me that little effort on
the part of our farmers would
save this $4,000, 900 and bring in
SlS 900 900 from other states for
Texas butter.
/ Do you know that we send cot
ton seed meal to the North every
year and get back creamery but
ter? Don't you know that our
climate is in our favor? We have
no long, hard, cold winters; we
can raise and feed cheaper and
make better butter, at less cost,
than any other State in the
Union. You bankers are the
ones to profit by this. Send
/ North for an experienced, success
full creamery butter man, and
start a diversification creamery
One pound of butter daily. at
3Oc, is equal to two bales of cot
ton. at lie per pound, at one
tenth the cost.
One dozen eggs per day, at zoe
per dozen, is equal to two bales of
&c cotton. One dozen eggs per
day can be raised by any farmer,
with practically no expense.
The hen is a great diversified
zionist, and no farmer who ex-
poets success and prosperity can
do without the hen. She will
make bank account when every
thing else fails.
SOUTHWEST TEXAS.
What does Southwest Texas
offer for diversified farming? 1t
is rich in undeveloped opportun-
tiles for diversified farming great
er than any state.
GRAPES.
Some day, in the near future,
the country between San Antonio
and the Rio Grande, from Del
Rio to the Cult, will be the vine-
yard of America. Nature has
given n soil and climate superior
to the great vineyards of Europe
or California.
The richest of wines will flow
from the hills and valleys of
Southwest Texas when diversified.
TRUCK FARMING.
Under irrigation there are hun
dreds of thousands of acres in
Southwest Texas, where, if diver
sified trucking is followed, will
pay $3.50 per acre annually.
You are further south than
California or Florida, with a
richer soil and more favorable
climate, and, most important,
nearer the markets, with quicker
and better transportation.
But don't put all your farm
into one crop-diversify.
These, bankers of Southwest
Texas, are only a few diversified
tion pointers, and the same APP
plies to every district in the
South.
WHAT SHOULD THE DIVERsIFICATION
FARMER Do?
He should do just like his
banker would do. First decide
what line of farming he wishes
to follow, and get the best loca-
ton adapted to some stable crop
which he would make his surplus
cash crop.
SOIL.
1t is all-important to know
what his soil is best adapted to,
This can easily be ascertained by
having it analysed by the Bureau
of Soils, U. S, Department of
Agriculture, Washington, D, G,