The Tupelo journal., 1913-09-26

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Opportunity to Secure a Farm in a Country
onstrated its Title to Supremacy of the Entire
It. First to Market Means Best Prices.
Greatest
munity agricultural exhibit at San Antonio
err! At Falfurrias you will find:
Falfurrias has Long Summers
Long Crop Seasons
Temperatures
No Winter to Speak of
Rich Easily Worked Soil
INCREASINGLY Good Roads
No Mud
No Hills
Abundance of Good, Pure, Soft Water
Ample and Excellent Railroad Facilities
Ocean Water Rates to the Worlds Markets
Winter Garden Irrigation
One of the Best Dairy Countries in the
United States
Superb for Live Stock of all Kinds
Demonstrated Citrus Fruit Country
Rapidly Settling up with Farmers
Good Neighbors and Good People
Splendid Community Builders
Store and Other Credit Cooperation to Help
Settlers
Splendid Local Markets for Products of the
Farm
Splendid Living Facilities
Cheap Cattle Production
The Best Corn and Cotton Production
Large Yields of Other Feed Stuff
The Earliest Water Melons in the United
States
Peaches, Plums, Pears, Grapes, and Figs do
Well.
sold to the Falfurrias Creamery on a but
ter fat basis and brings about thirty cents
per pound. Falfurrias butter is marketed
in the cities of Texas, and the demand far
exceeds the supply. The Company is now
running at the two separating stations 100
brood sows, from which they market 900 to
1000 hogs a year, for the past three years
the hogs handled have run into the humid
reds each year, without any loss from dis
ease. The model 100 acre dairy farm on
Copita prairie in the Falfurrias country
would probably be arranged about as fol-
lows: For buildings, barn lots, hog lots,
etc., five acres: about fifty acres planted in
cotton and rotated with other crops so that
cotton will be grown on the land every
third year. The remaining acreage would
be planted to the various feed crops. and
utilized as pasture plots, with a small acre
age, about ten acres, planted to fruit and
winter vegetables. A farm of this size
will carry thirty-fve cows and their in
crease comfortably, a number of hogs and
if desired a few sheep, together with all
the live stock necessary to work the farm.
Cotton. raised in rotation with feed crops.
can safely he figured to yield an average of
one half of a bale per acre. So 1t is easy
to see that with the cotton, dairying. hog
raising and truck in a proven territory,
and healthful climate, Falfurrias is des-
lined to be the leader of the Gulf Coast
Country of Southwest Texas. No other
portion of the state has grown so rapidly
and in no other section is it possible to find
such a diversity of products. That Falfur-
rias has made such a wonderful showing is
due entirely to the rare combination of fer
tile soil, warm artesian water and equable,
healthful climate, soils which retain mOls-
ture to such a degree that irrigation is sell
dom necessary. An abundant supply OF ar
tesian water for irrigation when desired,
and practically every day in the year warm
enough to keep crops growing. make it pos
sible for the intelligent farmer to work
wonders in the Falfurrias country. About
$4,000 acres are under cultivation and is
producing good yields regularly. This is
the last great West, and if you fail to get
some of this land now, it will soon be too
high for the small man to get a home in
that section. Why not investigate a prov
en- situation, which you know is better than
your present location? Homeseeker's tick
cts are on sale the first and third Tuesdays
Of each month. We make these trips reg
ularly. Every one that has visited this
country is enthusiastic about its future.
Write us for compl te list of satisfied Mis-
sissippi purchasers, and the date of our