The Muskogee cimeter. [volume] (Muskogee, Indian Territory, Okla.) 1901-19??, 1907-05-24

Jllul Sdn AnJOulO, OlHCldlly issued Dy
the Business Mems Club of San An
tonic, dated May, 1906, says:
1T is readily conceded by all those
who know anything about Texas that
the most prolific agricultural section
is that which recognizes San Antonio
as its logical center, particularly that
portion directly south of San Antonio,
with the Gulf of Mexico bordering on
the southeast and the Rio Grande Dor.
dering on the south and west.
within the last four or five years,
in the territory named, special atten-
tion has been given to growing vege-
tables, they maturing at time when
they secure the maximum prices on
Northern markets, which markets they
virtually invade without competitor.
The profit in growing vegetables in
this territory will be seen by an exam
ination of the following figures, Sc
cured from reliable sources, showing
Net Earnings Per Acre:
'Watermelons from $500 to $4,000.
"Cantaloupes from $4,000 to $500.
Cabbage from $125.00 to $225.00.
"Caulifower from $500 to $225.00.
Beans and Peas from $4,000 to
$12500.
Tomatoes from s125OO to $4,000.
Potatoes from $4,000 to $4,000.
Onions from $4,000 to $4,000.
"Tabasco Peppers from $50000 to
100000 per acre.
THE Chicago Record Herald pub
fishing the following individual expert
ences in South Texas:
Men who came here with $500 and
5000 a few years ago are now inde.
pendenily rich.
"A young man who came to this
country for his health, bought Is
acres and in one year cleared over
/ acre.
Another man, 65 years DID, from 70
acres, sold $4,000 worth of produce,
from which he realized $6329 per acre
and then raised Cotton crop on part
of It, 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; II 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 $500
per car, which was $207.69 from each
of the 130 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 $32,966 from 230
acres in Melons, which was S143.33
per acre.
Another netted $1,000 from 35
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 Cauliflower; 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 H., 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 fa-
miliar with the conditions around San
Antonio for IL years. Any thrifty