Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1907-07-03
President Roosevelt Said
"Texas is the Garden Spot Of the Lord"
go, 900 Acre Ranch of Or. Chas. r. Simmons
Now On the Market.
Here Your Opportunity to Buy Farm
Two Town Lots in This "Garden Spot S2iO. Pay.
able $40 per Month Without Interest


acres and in one year cleared over
! $4,000 from it, which was S333.33 per
! acre.
Another man. So years old, from 70
acres, sold 5000 worth of produce,
/ from which he realized $500 per acre
and then raised Cotton crop on part
of it. 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,
s2.226.91; from Cotton, $500; 200
bushels Corn; u tons Hay; 5000
| pounds Sweet Potatoes.
Another made $4,000 from five
acres of early Cabbage, which was
500 per acre. and grew a second crop
of Corn and Peas on the same ground
that year.
Another realized $4,000 from 80
! car loads Of Cabbage averaging 5000
I per car. which was S207.69 from each
of the 1870 acres he had planted.
Another Melted, above all expenses.
$50 per acre on Potatoes, and planted
the same ground in Cotton that year
from which he realized $50 per acre,
which made that ground yield him s95
per acre.
Another realized So. 1856 from 2so
acres in Melons, which was $143.33
per acre.
Another netted $4,000 from 35
acres in Onious, which was $500 per
acre
Another netted sl7,445. or s79.25
per acre from nine cuttings OF 220
acres in Alfalfa, which yielded in one
year 2,475 tons and sold at 81 per
ton
Another received $500 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:
q am one of the heaviest taxpayers
on farm lands in Mason and Tazeweli
Counties, Illinois, and have been IA
miliar with the conditions around San
Antonio for II 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
Illinois, that sells from $3.50 to 1925
! per acre"
Come TO the land OF beautiful sun
+ shine and almost perpetual harvest
f Where the people are prosperous,
happy and contented. :
/ Where the flowers blaam ten months
/ in the year.
! Where the farmers aad 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 living supplement their in.
; come from other business