Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1911-01-19
LAND VALUES
Facts Are Set Forth In The Follow
ing Article. Read 1t And Think
1t Over Very Carefully.


What do you call good land? Lands
that produce half bale of cotton or
twenty bushels of corn, are considered
good lands in the black land belts of
Texas and the owners of those lands
would give prospective purchaser
the horse lauy III were he to offer them
less than S75 per acre for their dirt.
Let us make some some comparisons
and we will then leave lie up to the
reader to decide where he would like
to make Investments
On the Rome farm, few miles south
of this city and near Mission, last sea-
son they made on twenty acres an
average of eighty two bushels of corn
per acre on the same lands from which
Mr.. Rome, two months before, harves-
ted bumper bean crop. This made
two money crops on the same land in
one season of six months. Can any
other country under the sun show
similar record? The same acreage in
tho North would have brought what
about $500. Mr.. Rome's returns from
the sale of the corn and beans netted
him nearly $4,000. He paid 500 an
acre for his land. Mr.. Rome's success
is only one of many in this section.
We will take the case Of w. w. Blrket
of Mission, who made neat little
bunch of money on field of 20 acres
of alfalfa. Mr.. Birket is Kansan
and all of his experience farmer Was
confined to wheat raising. He came
South last year and bought forty
acre tract on the first lift land, cleared
it and in the spring planted alfalfa. In
July he had cut his hay several times
and the endof the season he had made
enough money off OF the twenty acres
to complete payments on his forty, to
purchase city property and to build
home in town. He informed the wri-
ter one day this week that he had just
closed deal to rent twenty acres of
his farm to a neighbor for one year
for $500 cash. The other twenty is
seeded in alfalfa and will in all proba-
bility produce as we'll as it did last
season the same being ten tons per
acre.
The same acreage in Kansas would
have produced about one third the net
returns that the valley farm produced
and the labor necessary to get the one.
third yield would have been three
times more strenuous.
Take for instance the success en-
joyed by Sites & Nicholson of the first
bench lands. Mr.. Sites was locomo.
tiveengineeer on the Southern Pacific
and Mr.. Nicholson was machinist
All they knew about farming would
not make volume of over ten thou
sand pages, but they knew how to
work (railroad men always know howl
and with this asset combined with
good judgment they started a crop ON
lands they purchased with hard-earn-
ed money. The very first year the
Goddess of Fortune smiled upon these
venturesome railroaders and they
tucked away $40, 1000 cold cash from a
crop of onions. This year they have
already cleaned up that amount and a
part of the same lands produced after
the onions were harvested-a bale af
cotton to the acre. The cotton made
pin money for the children ana the
ground was kept in good condition for
the pink bean crop that was planted
after the cotton was picked.
We could 60 on this way for many
moons showing what has been done
in this section, but we think we have
shown enough to convince the skepti,
cal ones that land in this valley, even
at 5000 per acre, is cheap when com
pared to the SIS lands of the one. crop
per-year sections.
Land near Monte is on the market
at a bargain price. Get wise before it
is too late.
Next Excursion Jany. 10Th.
GEO e. KELLOGG. Agt.