Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-06-27
President Roosevelt Said:
Texas is the Garden Spot Of the Lord"
SO 900 Acre Ranch of Or. Chas. F. Simmons
Now On the Market.
Here Your Opportunity Buy Farm Of from 10 Acres
Two Town Lots in This "Garden Spot for S20. Pay
able $40 per Month Without Interest

country for his health, bought Is
acres and in one year cleared over
$4,000 from it, which was $33333 per
acre.
Another man, 60 years old, from 20
| acres, sold $1,000 worth of produce,
from which he realized s63.29 per acre
and then raised Cotton crop on part
OF 1t, which made him $35 per acre,
which made the same land net him
$9S.29 per acre for that year.
Another man from so acres in 1904
realized as follows: From Onions.
$2,226.91; from Cotton, $1.S00; 200
bushels Corn: IL tons Hay; 5000
pounds Sweet Potatoes.
Another made $4,000 from five
acres of early Cabbage, which was
$640 per acre. and grew a second crop
of Corn and Peas on the same ground
that year.
Another realized $4,000 from 90
car loads of Cabbage. averaging 5000
per car. which was $207.69 from each
of the $50 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 $95
per acre.
Another realized $S2,966 from ESQ
acres in Melons, which was S14S.S3
per acre.
Another netted $4,000 from S5
! acres in Onions, which was 5000 per
acre.
Another netted $17,445, or $7925
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 Caulifiower; 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:
81 am one of the heaviest taxpayers
on farm lands in Mason and Tazewell
Counties. Illinois, and I 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 1925
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
grown June vegetables in January, and
bask in mid-winter's balmy air and
glorious sunshine.
Where the land yield is enormous
and the prices remunerative.
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 increasing
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 temperate and the
luxuries of the tropic zones.
Where the farmer does not have to
work hard six 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
States
Where houses, barns and fences can
be built for less than half the cost in
the North.
Where sunstrokes and heat prostra-
lions are unknown.
Where sufferers with Asthma, Bron-
chitis, Catarrh, Hay Fever and Throat
Troubles find relief
Where, surrounded by fruits and
vegetables, which ripen every month
in the year, the living is better and
less expensive than in the North
Where the water is pure, soft and
plentiful.
Where the taxes are so low that the
amount is never missed.
Where Public and Private Schools
and Churches of all denominations are
plentiful.
Where peace. plenty and good will
prevail
Where it is so healthy that there
are few physicians and most of them.
to make a living supplement their in
come from other business.