The Muskogee cimeter. [volume] (Muskogee, Indian Territory, Okla.) 1901-19??, 1907-05-31


tiful San Antonio" officially issued by
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 bor-
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 a 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 $l25.00 to $225.O0.
"Caulifower from $500 to $225.00
Beans and Peas from $4,000 to
$125.OO.
Tomatoes from $12500 to 100000
Potatoes from $4,000 to $150.00
"Onions from $4,000 to $4,000.
"Tabasco Peppers from $5O0.OO to
$4,000 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.
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 $33333 per
acre.
Another man, 65 years old, from 79
acres, sold $4,000 worth of produce,
from which he realized $63.29 per acre
and then raised Cotton crop on part
of it, which made him s35 per acre,
which made the same land net him
$9S.29 per acre for that year.
another man from 80 acres in 1904
realized as follows: From Onions,
s2,226.91; from Cotton, $l,S0O; 200
bushels Corn; 12 tons Hay; 5000
pounds Sweet Potatoes.
Another made $4,000 from five
acres of early Cabbage, which was
$640 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 $207.69 from each
OF the 1870 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 sos
per acre.
Another realized $32,966 from 2S0
acres in Melons, which was $l43.33
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 sl1 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 H., 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 have been ia.
miliar with the conditions around San
Antonio for IL years. ANY thrifty