The daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 190?-1908, 1907-03-14

$4,000 per acre.
The Chicago Record.Herald pub
/ lished the following individual ex-
periances in South Texas
Men who came here with $500 and
5000 a few years ago are now inde-
pendently rich.
"A young man who came to this
country for his health, bought 1s
acres and in one year cleared over
$4,000 from it, which was $333.33 per
acre.
Another man, Go years old, from
+ 70 acres, sold $4,000 worth Of pro
duce, from which he realized S63.29
per acre and then raised a Cotton
crop on part of IL, which made him
$35 per acre, which made the same
land net him $98.29 per acre for that
year"
Another man from so acres in 1904
realized as follows From onions,
$2,22G91; from Cotton, S1,S00; 200
bushels Corn; IL tons Hay; 5000
pounds Sweet Potatoes"
Another made $4,000 from five
acres Of early Cabbage, which was
$64O 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 $2O7G9 from each
of the 13O 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 S35 per acre,
which made that ground yield him
$50 per acre
Another realized $32,9G6 from 230
acres in Melons, which was S143.33
per acre"
Another netted s21 900 from 35
acres in Onions, which was 5000 per
acre"
Another netted $17,4l5, or $79.25
per acre from nine cuttings of 220
acres in Alfalfa, which yielded in one
, year 2,475 tons and sold at S11 per
ton"
Another received 5000 from one
acre in Cauliflower; sown in July,
transplanted in August, and marketed
in December"
The same authority quotes the fol-
, lowing statement from the Hon. Jo-
seph Daily, of Chillicothe, ILL.,, who
I owns thousands of acres in the Illi-
nois Corn Belt He says
dlAl Out VI llt utdNltbl ldAUdltI6
on farm lands in Mason and Tazewell
Counties, Illinois, and | have been
familiar with the conditions around
q San Antonio for u years. Any
; thrifty farmer can get rich, and make
Z more money off of this cheap land,
5 acre for acre, than any land in the
State of Illinois, that sells from $3.50
to $225 per acre"
Come m thA land ~ haautfftt1 cur-
S shine and almost perpetual harvest.
Where the people are prosperous,
h happy and contented
a Where the flowers bloom ten
months in the year.
d Where the farmers and gardeners,
whose seasons never end, eat home
g grown June vegetables in January,
S and bask in mid-winters balmy air
Q and glorious sunshine.
= Where the land yield is enormous,
= and the prices remunerative.
@ Where something can be planted
p and harvested every month in the
e year
e Where the climate is so mild that
the Northern farmer mere saves prac-
tically all his fuel bills and three
fourths tAc cost of clothing his family
e in the North
+. Where the country is advancing
5, and property values rapidly increas-
/, ing.
s. Where all stock, without any feed,
5, fatten winter and summer, on the ma
h tive grasses and brush.
l. Where the same land yields the
5, substantals of the temperate and the
5, luXuries of the tropic zones.
g Where the farmer does not have to
5, work hard six months In the year to
It raise feed 10 keep his stock from
dying during the winter, as they do
l. in the North and Northwest.
d Where there are no aristocrats and
II people do not have to work hard to
have plenty and go in the best So
10 ciety.
It Where the natives work less and
n have more to show for what they do
o than in any country in the United
It States
n Where houses, barns and fences
r can be built for less than half the
10 cost in the North,
ID Where suDstrokes and heat pros
trations are unknown.
s, Where sufferers with Asthma,
l. Bronchitis, Catarrh, Hay Fever and
e Throat Troubles find relief.
e Where, surrounded by fruits and
IS vegetables, which IiIen every month
Is in the year, the living is better and
A. less expensive than in the North.
e. Where the water is pure, soft, and
N plentiful.
g Where the taxes are so low that
s, the amount is never missed.
Where Public and Private Schools
and Churches OF all denominations
are plentiful
o. Where peace, plenty and good will
o. prevail.
%. Where 1t is so healthy that there
10 are few physicians and most of them
to make a living, supplement their
%. income from other business. q
--- "r-a. SN- Antonio, Texas.
paid to any one proving that
rtisement is not true.
Amo Plaza. San Antonio. Texas.