The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1910-05-29

many advantages and attractions be-
| fore locating elsewhere.
Horses and Mules
No better live stock proposition is
presented anywhere than mule rails
ing in Alexander county. They can
! be raised at small expense and there
Is strong market right at our doors
| The average team Of work mules
sells for from $500 to $500. while a
heavy pair easily brings $500 to $500.
Sheep and hogs.
| Nothing will so surely make pork
as alfalfa and corn, and these crops
are chief upon Alexander county's
lists
Sheep bring the farmer two crops
lambs and wool, and require very lit
tie attention. Alfalfa makes an ideal
lpastlrage for sheep, and 1t is coming
Unto more general use In this connec-
ton.
Dairying.
The success of dairying has been
fully proven Natural yellow butter
of the very best quality is made
throughout the year, and there Is
a home market for twice the amount
4 of milk and butter now produced, and
the man who desires a comfortable
living and, desirable occupation
should consider dairying in Alexander
county
Markets Close For Stockmen.
Stockholders occupy a strategis
position in reference to the great
markets of the country, they are in
almost the center of the corn belt;
and are located at the very gateway
of the great Southwestern and West
fern range country They have at
their doors, not only the great pack
ing plants Of st. Louis, Kansas City,
and Chicago, but also the greatest
markets for full-blooded stock in the
world-the fast growing agricultural
region of the Southwest.
Poultry Farming.
When one notices the great de-
mand for poultry and the good prices
that are paid for eggs and chickens,
he wonders that more people do moi
go into the poultry business. 1t is
because their hands are full of other
things, and they have not yet become
accustomed to make the most OF
their advantages. 1t would be hard
to find place better suited to the
requirements of a poultry farm than
Alexander county.
Fruits.
All kinds of fruits will grow here
that are Indigenous to the temperate
zone, producing in good quantity and
Equality
Grapes grow naturally and produce
abundantly, berries are always sue
cessful when properly and carefully
cultivated, apricots, nectarines and
figs may be grown with ordinary care
Peaches are grown here equalng
the California product In size and
Isurpassing them in avor, Apples are
of remarkable fine color and size
and many varieties flourish. Pears
Ialso produce well. Strawberries are
always considered the fruit-growers
side line; blackberries. raspberries
blueberries and currants are also
grown in marketable quantities in
Alexander county.
Alexander County as a Truck Growing
Section.
Although the growing OF market
truck for shipment to the great cities
Of both the East and West. has not
been considered seriously here, on &C
count Of the great staple crops Of
wheat, corn, oats and alfalfa yielding
such profitable returns on the drained
! lands, those who have tried II have
most successfully demonstrated tina
truck growing in Alexander count,
could become most profitable indus
try. Everything is here TO contribute
towards its suceess--soil, climate
, proximity to markets, and transporta
tion facilities-and it should be en-
couraged.
Timber and Building Material
Plentiful.
? A word, too, should be added re
: garding the economic advantages OF
cheap and convenient supply Of lun
4 Der of all kinds for building, fencin
and for shipping packages. TIL
J grower can raise his product OF a
: kinds in abundance and is not oblige
: to send two or three hundred mile
. for his packages. At convenien
! points In this section are basket an
i box factories, turning out larg
a quantities Of shipping packages fror
a low grade lumber. Alexander count
is in parts heavily timbered wit
white oak, swamp oak, live oak, Spar
r ish oak yellow poplar, shellbarf
] hickory ash, beech, maple, cypress
1 gum, cottonwood and willow-ail tn
Q most valuable kinds.
Q Cairo is situated at the conhuenc
r of the Mississippi and Ohio rivers
n most superb location.
! Alexander County the Doorway Q