Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1907-05-02
Tomatoes from s125.OO to s4OO.o 90.

ences In South Texas:
Men who came here with $500 and
5000 a few years ago are now indie
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 $333.S3 per
acre.
another man. 65 years old, from 70
acres, sold $4,000 worth of produce,
from which he realized S63.29 per acre
and then raised Cotton crop on part
of 1t, 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,SOO; 200
bushels Corn; ~ 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 S27, 900 from, 90
car loads of Cabbage, averaging $500
per car, which was $207.69 from each
VI hhO AoV lNlCp liO lldh pldnlSus
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 sos
per acre.
Another realized sS2,966 from 2SO
acres in Melons, which was s143,33
per acre.
another netted s21 900 from s5
acres in Onions, which was 5000 per
acre.
Another netted s17,445, or s79.25
per acre from nine cuttings of 22O
acres in Alfalfa, which yielded in one
year 2,475 tons and sold at s11 per
ton.
Another received 5000 from one
acre in Caulifiower; 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:
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 10 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 $225
per acre"
Come to the land of beautiful sun
shine and almost perpetual harvest.
Where the people are prosperous.
happy and contented.
Where the flowers bloom ten months
in the year.
Where the farmers and gardeners,
whose ser sons 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 saves prac-
tically all his fuel bills and three
fourths the cost Of clothing his family
in the North.
Where the country 1t advancing and
property values rapidly increasing.
Where all stock, without any feed,
fatten winter and summer, on the ma
tive grasses ar 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
tons are unknown.
Where sufferers with Asthma. Bron
chitis, Catarrh, Hay Fever and Throat
Troubles find relief
Where, surrounded by fruits and veg
etables, which ripen every month II
the year, the living is better and less
expensive than In the North.
Where the water is pure. sole ant
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.
Who're. peace, plenty and good vii
prevail.
Where It is SO healthy that theF'