Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1921-07-14
CONTINUOUS R0!yND
OF CROPS
Interesting Story of Texas Fertility
and Constant Succession of Bump
er CrOps-TOld in Letter From
Mr.. and Mrs. Memo Rychener of
Harlingen, Texas.

Hlr. ana Mrs. Memo Rychener OF
Harlingen, Texas.
Harlingen, Texas June 21, 1921
Art and Minnie,
Dear Friends,
We have been thinking for more
than a year that we must write to
iyOu and W t. the present moment
thinking is all it has amounted ID.
But as we are having the brush OF
a gulf coast storm we are not overly
busy, SO we will give you one that
Twill hold you for while. Well how
are you and the little boys? We
landed here almost a year ago, will
be year next Sunday, and now the
time has fitted by. We had been
here less than a week when l was
taken sick with my old trouble a1d
| was IN ped for seven weeks, haj
to be lifted in and out of bed like
"a baby and IL days of that time
Memo even had to feed me as l
could not get my hands to my face
(but l didn't lose my speech) ha ha.
That was rather a rough initia-
ton for a new country and new
home.
evening and on Monday we went to
Brownsville to record our deed and
look over the title, and found every
thing o. X. Then on Tuesday we
got busy and started gang of hands
to fix our house so we might get in;
and after we got them at work we
tstarted out to get team and as the
Mexican would say (bacus) cows,
4
mules and three dandy young Jersey
icows, two with their second calves
and the other. with her first, and
they sure have proven good ones.
They are all fresh now and all have
a nice heifer calf apiece. We are
raising the calves.
We like our new home very much.
l think it must be the finest eli
mate in the wide world, no day too
hot to work ana no night that you
cannot sleep like a baby. When the
breeze sets in it seems to take the
hot all out of both night and day.
The hottest it has been since we
| have been here is 96 degrees and
with that we had such a lovely
southeast breeze that we scarcely
realized that it was so hot No day
to warm to work out in the field,
in fact Memo says he can stand it
better here than he could in Ohio.
You will scarcely believe me when |
tell you that we have corn that is
ripe enough to cut now and it grew
on land that we set to cabbage in
November and took off ten tons OF
it from an acre and then planted
the same ground to corn That
may sound fishy but you come down
and We'll show you the goods. We
have % acres of the most beautf-
full crop that you ever saw grow
beautiful blooming cotton, the
leaves a deep rich green and ths
first day blossom is white and after
that 1t becomes pink, a veritable
flower garden. We have two and q
half acres of sweet potatoes that are
nice and large now, in fact we hac
a mess for the first on the 9th OF
this month. The patch is good fol
500 bushels and coming at this time
of year they will bring US not less
than $3.50 a bushel. Our Irish
potatoes were taken to market {
week ago, they brought US fron
$2.10 to $2.40 per bushel and nov
we want to sow our potato GROUND
to sorgun, this week, 'and we will
get two cuttings of that and ther
have it off in time to plant to corr
in January. The early planter
here aims to plant his corn as soo1
after New Years day as possible, il
fact some of the real early fellow.
will plant the last of December. w
had one neighbor who began selling
t1.No ~ L I
over $1100 worth off of ten acres.
One of our very near neighbor'
sold over $500 worth of tomatoe.
!. off two acres. We only had in on,
acre of tomatoes but we were no
Iso early and hence did not get il
on the extreme high price, but W,
did quite well at that.
We have two acres of sorgum tha
we want to cut this week, tha
makes hay that a cow will com,
iTIght off of green grass and eat
and talk about chicken feed, the
go wild when we bring a load from
: the field and how they do lay whel
they can run to stack of it. | hav,
: chickens in all stages, from hens
year old (that we bought from
; Mexican woman and her little boy
to young chicks and even younge
, than that for l have a hen setting
This is q great place to raise then
: and they always bring good price
| Our place is only n minutes wall
from the post office and bank S,
you see going to town is not mucl
of job, in fact our place is RICH
! up against the town.
Harlingen is a town of nearll,
, 5000, in fact it grows so fast it ma,
be more than that. We have thre
, big hardware stores and only on
! plumber in town that we know u
!. Better come down and open up
! shop where you wont have to craw
under damp buildings and have
cold all the time. We have not hat
a cold since we have been here
Brother Albert came here from Wis
consin in April with catarrh so ba,
he had not been able to smell for l.
years and when he sat down to eat
could not tell by taste, potatoe
: from onions, and now he can begii
to smell.
! People die here sometimes but no
from a cold or any of its kindre,
diseases. There are a good man,
! mere from Ohio. On the 18th o
: list month we had et-to-gethe
t meeting of Ohio people for the frs
: time and when we gathered at LAX
5 Llama Grande we found there wer
5 about 500 of us in the Southern Ri
Grande valley. They effected per
/ manent organization and from nov
/ on it is to be an annual affair an,
to be known as Ohio reunion day, an,
e by next year there will be a goo
/. many more from Ohio, the way the,
: are pouring in here.
: On the 9th of last wonth we wen
over to Matamoris old Mexico t
their independence day, like ou
t Fourth of July. That is some cit
s~Of 5000 people and not a building i
: the city that, is over two storie
and as old John Pugh said, "salOo
), in every other building and it don
d make much difference which one yo
L visited the cemetery. | saw a sigh
= commence at" And while there w