The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1907-04-18

Onions from $4,000 to $4,000.
Tabasco Peppers from $4,000 to
10000 per acre.
The Chicago Hecord.Herald pub
lished the following individual ex.
periences 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 Is
acres and In one year cleared over
$4,000 from it, which was s33S3s per
acre
Another man, C5 years old. from
70 acres, sold $4,000 worth Of pro.
duce, from which he realized SG3.2g
per acre and then raised Cotton
crop on part Of It, which made him
$50 per acre. which made the same
land net him $9s,zs per acre for that
year." wf ft'
Another man from so acres In 1904
realized as follows: From Onions
$2,22G.9l; from Cotton, S1,S00; 2Ol
bushels Corn; IL tons Hay; 500
pounds Sweet Potatoes
Another made $4,000 from five
acres OF early Cabbage, which was
S6iO per acre, aud grew a second
crop Of Corr and Peas on the sanis
ground that year"
Another realized s2IU00 from 80
car loads of Cabbage, averaging 5000
per car, which was s20769 from each
OF the 1870 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 S35 per acre.
which made that ground yield him
$50 per acre.
Another realized $s2,sso from 2so
acres in Melons. which was t143ss
per acre."
Another netted $4,000 from q
acres IN Onions, which was 5000 pei
acre"
Another netted sl7,445, Or s7s.e6
per acre from nine cuttings OF 220
acres in Alfalfa, which yielded In one
year 2,475 tons and sold at $1l per
ton"
Another received $500 from one
acre In Cauliflower: sown in July.
transplanted in August. and marketed
in December" IN
The same authority quotes the FOL
lowing statement from the Hon. 80.
seph Daily, of. ChiIlicothe, Ill, who
owns thousands OF acres in the mi.
nois Corn Belt He says: ~
Il am one OF the heaviest taxpayefb
on farm lands in Mason and 'Tazewell
Counties, Illinois, aad | have been
! familiar with the conditions around
San Antonio for IL years. Any
thrifty farmer can get rich, and make
more money orr of this cheap land,
acre for acre, than any land IA The
State Of Illinois, that sells from sfs0
to 1925 per acre"
/ Come 10 the land of beautiful sun.
shine and almost perpetual harvest.
Where the people are prosperous,
happy and contcnted
Where the flowers bloom ten
months in the year.
Where the farmers and gardeners,
whose seasons never end, eat home.
grown, June vegetables ia 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. d5
Where the climate Is SO mild thas
the Northern farmer here saves prac-
tically all his fuel bills and three
fourths the cost OF clothing his family
IN the North.
Where the country is adsanclns
and property values rapidly inereas-
ing
Where all stock without any feel
fatten winter and summer, on the IL
tive grasses and brush
Where the same land Yields II
substantIals OF the temperate aud ID
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
dying during the winter. as they do
ia the North and Northwest.
Where there are no aristocrats and
people do not have to work hard u
have plenty AID go In the best 50
ciefy ft
Where the natives work less apa
have more 70 show for what they do
than in any country in the United
. States "4
Where houses, barns and fence,
can be built FOR less than half the
cost In the North.
i Where suDstroKes and heat pros.
tfntions are unknown.
Where sufferers with Asthmi
: bronchitis, CatarFh. Hay Fever an
, Throat Troubles tild relief
J Where, surrounded BY fruits an
Vegetables. which lipen, eYary month
) In the year. the living II better and
: less expensive than In The North,
Where the water Is pure, sott, and
! plentiful.
Where the taxes are so low that
, the amount is never missed.
Where Public and Private Schools
and Churches of ali denominati0ni
are plentiful.
J. Where peace. plenty and good nil
]. prevail
!. Where II Is so healthy that fhars
b are few physicians and most Of then
TO make q living, supplement fhei|
}. income from other business.
no Plaza. San Antonio. TsSas.
'aid TO any one proving that
rtisementis NOT true.
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