The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-05-03

Sb,UuO from II, when was S333.G5 per
acre.
Another man. f5 years old, from 70
acres, sold $4,000 worth of produce,
from which he realized $G@.29 per acre
and then raised a 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 1901
realized as follows: From Onions,
$2,22G91 from Cotton, $500; 200
bushels Corn; - tons Hay; 5000
pounds Sweet Potatoes
Another made 5000 from five
acres OF early Cabbage, which was
$G40 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 5000
per car, which was $2O769 from each
OF the 13O 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 $95
per acre.
Another realized $32.966 from $50
acres in Melons, which was $l43.S3
per acre.
Another nettcd $4,000 from 50
acres in Onions. which was 5000 per
acre.
Another netted $17,445. or $79.25
per acre from nine cuttings of 200
acres in Alfalfa, which yielded in one
year 2,475 tons and sold at S11 per
ton.
Another received 5000 from one
acre in Caulihower; 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 Chlllicothe. H.. who
owns thousands of acres in the Illinois
Corn Belt He says:
Il 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 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.
Where the people are prosperous,
happy and contented.
Where the flowers bloom ten months
in the year.
Where the farmers and gardeners,
whose seasons never end, eat home.
grown June vegetables in January, and
bask in mid-winters 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 and brush.
Where the same land yields the
substantials of the temperate and the
Injuries 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 90 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 veg.
etables, which ripen every month in
the year, the living Is better aid less
expensive than in the North.
Where the water is pure, sole 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 1t Is so healthy that there
are few physicians and most them.
TO make living supplement their in.
come from other business.
ST 600 Reward will ha roid IN a,,u