The Jasper news. [volume] (Jasper, Missouri) 1898-1924, 1907-07-04

Potatoes from $4,000 to $4,000.
Onions from $4,000 to $4,000.

"Tabasco Peppers from $4,000 to
| $4,000 per acre. -
1.-THE Chicago Record.Herald pub
fishing the following individual expert.
ences in South Texas: :.
Men who came here with $500 and
5000 few years ago are now indie.
pendently rich.
"A young man who came to this
country for his health, bought IS
acres and In one year cleared over
$4,000 from 1t, which was $33333 per
acre.
Another man, 65 years old, from 70
acres, sold $4,000 worth of produce,
from which he realized S63.29 per acre
and then raised a Cotton crop on part
OF 1t, which made him s35 per acre,
which made the same land net him
| $500 per acre for that year.
Another man from 80 acres in 1904
realized as follows: From Onions.
$2,226.91; from Cotton, $1,000; 200
bushels Corn;, IL tons Hay; 5000
pounds Sweet Potatoes.
Another made $4,000 from Ave
acres Of early Cabbage, which was
$640 per acre, and grew second crop
of Corn and Peas ON the same ground
that year.
Another realized $4,000 from 80
car loads of Cabbage, averaging $500
per car, which was 1907. SO from each
Of tho 100 acres he had planted.
Another netted, above all expenses,
$50 per acre on Potatoes, and planted
the same ground in Cotton that year
from which he realized $35 per acre,
which made that ground yield him sos
per. acre.
Another realized $32,966 from 230
acres in Melons, which was $143.33
per acre. q 81 g.
Another netted $4,000 from IS
acres in Onions, which was 5000 per
acre.
Another netted $17,445, or $79.25
per acre from nine cuttings of 220
acres in Alfalfa, which yielded in one
year 2,475 tons and sold at $11 per
ton.
Another received 5000 from one
acre in Caulifower; sown in July,
transplanted in August, and marketed
In December"
| The same authority quotes the fol-
lowing statement from the Hon. Jos.
eph Daily. Of Chillicothe. ILL.,, who
owns thousands of acres in the Illinois
Corn Belt. He says:
II am one of the heaviest taxpayers
on farm lands in Mason and Tazewell
Counties. Illinois, and have been ia
miliar with the conditions. around San
Antonio for IL years. Any thrifty
farmer can get rich, and make more
money OF Of this cheap land, acre for
acre, than any land in the State Of
Illinois, that sells from $3.50 to $225
per acre"
Come to the land of beautiful sun.
shine and almost perpetual harvest.
Where the people are prosperous,
happy and contented.
Where the flowers bloom ten months
In the year.
Where the farmers and gardeners,
| whose seasons never end, eat home
bask In underwriters balmy air and
glorious sunshine.
Where the land yield is enormous
| and the prices remuneratiye.
Where something can be planted
and harvested every month in the
year.
Where the climate is SO mild that
| the Northern farmer here save prac-
tically all his fuel bills and three
fOurths the cost of clothing his family
| In the North.
| Where the country is advancing and
property values rapidly incr,asing.
Where all stock, without, any feed,
fatten winter and summer, on the ma
| tive grasses and brush.
Where the same land yields the
substantials of the temp crate and the
luxuries OF the tropic zones.
Where the farmer does not have to
work hard Blk months In the year to
raise feed to keep his stock from dy-
ing during the winter, as they do in
the North and Northwest.
Where there are no aristocrats and
people do not have to work hard to
have plenty and go In the best society.
Where the natives work less and
have more, to show for what they do
than In any country in the United
4 Statass
/ Where houses, barns and fences can
be built for less than half the cost In
/ the North. sgs p. $50
Where sunstroles and heat prostra.
1 lions are unknown. ,'t
Where sufferers with Asthma, Bron.
chitis, Catarrh, Hay Fever and Throat
Troubles fnd relief f
Where. surrounded by fruits aud
i vegetables. which ripen every month
In the year. the living is better and
less expensive than In the North.
Where the water ia pure. soft and
plentiful. III.
Where the taxes are so low, that the