The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1907-04-16

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Onions from S150.c0 to $500 co.
Tahasco Peppers from $4,000 to
s90J.00 per acre.
The Chicago Record Herald pub
lished the following individual ex-
neriences In South Texas.
Men who came here with $500 and
5000 a few years ago are now indie
pendenuy rich.
"a young man who came to this
country for his health, bought Is
acres and ia one year cleared over
$4,000 from 1t, which was $333.33 per
acre.
Another man, 65 years old. from
70 acres, sold $4,000 worth OF pro
duco, from which he realized s63 .2s
per acre and then raised a Cotton
crop on part Of It. which made him
S35 per acre, which made the same
land net him S9S.29 per acre for that
year"
Another man from 80 acres in 1904
realized as follows: From Onions
S2,22691; from Cotton, $1,000; 20l
bushels Corn; IL tons Hay; 500
pounds Sweet Potatoes
Another made $4,000 from five
acres OF early Cabbage, which was
Sj4O per acre, and grew second
crop OF Corn and Peas ON the sans
ground that year."
Another realized $4,000 from 30
car loads of Cabbage, averaging $500
per car, which was $207.69 from each
OF the 13O acres he had planted"
Another netted, above all expenses
SEQ 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
$50 per acre.
Another realized sS2 900 from 2so
acres in Melons. which was $I43.ss
per acre"
Another netted. $4,000 from 81
| acres in Onions. which was 5000 pei
acre
Another netted s17,445, or $7s.25
per acre from nine cuttings of 220
acres in Alfalfa, which yielded in ons
year 2.475 tons and sold at s11 per
i tom M
Another received 5000 from one
acre IN Cauliflower sown in July.
Tansplanted in August and marketed
in December"
The same authority quotes the fol-
\ loving statement from the Hon. Jo-
seph Daily. Of Chillioothe, Ill, who
owns thousands or acres in the lIlI-
nois Corn Belt. He says:
II am one of the heaviest taxpayers
! on farm lands in Mason and Tazewell
I Counties, Illinois, and | have been
! familiar with the conditions around
San Antonio for 12 years. Any
thrifty farmer can get rich, and make
more money off of this cheap land.
acre for acre, than any land in The
,. State Of Illlpois, that sells from $3.50
70 $225. per acre"
Come to the land OF beautiful sun
shine and almost perpetual harvest.
Where the people are prosperous,
4 happy and contented.
Where the flowers bloom ten
months in the year.
Whore the farmers and gardeners,
J whose seasons never end, eat home
gro~a June vegetables in January.
and bask in midwiater's balmy air
and glorious sunshine.
Whore the land yield is enormous,
and the. prices remuneratiye IN
Where something can be planted
and harvested every month in the
year.
+ Where the climate is so mild that
the Northern farmer here. saves prac-a
tically' an his fuel bills and three
foarths the cost Of clothing his family
in the North
Where the country is advancing
and property values rapidly increas-
ing .t.f
Where all stock. without any feef
fatten winter and summer, on the n ;
tive grasses and brush.
Where the slme land yields th ,
suhFtantials of the temperate and u q
Injuries OF the tropic zones.
Who're the farmer does not have to,
work. hard six months in the year to
raise feed to keep his stock from
dying during the winter, as they do,
In the North aud Northwest.
Where there are no aristocrats- and
people do not have to work hard To,
have plenty aad go in the best So,
ciety
Whore the natives work less and
have more to show for what they do
tRan IN any country in the Unitef
States.
Where houses, barns and fence
can Sc built for less than half the
cost in the North.
Where suDstrokes and heat prosf
traions are unknown.
Where sufferers with Asthmi
Bronchitis. Catarrh, Hay Fever an
Throat Troubles find relief
Where. surrounded by fruits an
vegetables. which Iipen every month
In the year, the living is better and
less expensive than Ia the North.
Where the water is pure. soft. ana
plentiful
Where the taxes are so low that
the amount is never missed
Where Public and Private Schools
and Churches OF all denominations
ure plentiful
Where peace. plenty and good VIII
prevail.
Where It Is so healthy that thero
} arelf5w physicians and most OF them
70 make living. supplement their
. income from. other business.
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