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The Commoner.
14
VOLUME 10, NUMBER T
$38 Per Ton for Cabba
That
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Yields 10 to 20
The first big harvest of
profit is now in progress
on the La Lomita Lands at
MISSION
Hildago County, in the
Lower Rio Grande Valley,
of the Wonderful Gulf
Coast Country of Texas.
Tf you could como to MIhhIoii
NOW und witness tlio busy seonoH
of tho annual cabbage harvest, you
could got Hdinn Idea of tho groat
futuro of the wonderful Gulf Coast
Country of Texas.
Tho successes of last your aro bo
ng repeated again thlH year, only
In u larger measure and by a larger
number of fiinnerH. Planters aro
confining themselves this season
very largely to carload shipments
by fast freight. Cabbage Is now
netting tho planters $HS per ton
loaded on tho cars In bulk at Mls
Hl. The average yield Is ten to
llfteen tons per acre. Some will
cut as high as twenty tons por
acre.
The following item, taken from
tho San Antonio Daily Express, of
bunday, February 0, shows whit it
means to bo able to markot big
crops wo.oks ahead of other sections,
Just whon tho demand is greatest
und tho prices hlghost:
Cabbage
From San Antonio Daily Exnross:
of cabbage from $28 per ton to $38 por ton tho cabbage shipments from tho
Lower Rio Grande Valley (in which tho La Lomita Lands aro located) have
boon except dally heavy during tho last few days. At these prices tloro is
ft K rV,SU ? proflt t0 th0 P"lucor. Tho prollts per aero will average
around S300. On exceptional yields $400 to $500 per acre pront is not at
all unreasonable. Tho cabbage acreage for MISSION lands and other
Join the Money-Makers
from a farm at Mission J Wllon n Can not markot o products
TlPoTooV scale than over,
any other, but possesses a better IhivSi iind hrinn. mnrkot oarlior than
to tho grower. U1 Im01 und brings the top of tho markot
S'SSHSHHii -t r ot erowlnB'
otjor stapto, is also vory successful. Alfalfa, an-
Vnti a yi4- n ,1.. -. ii..
ThVy have passe "the oiporKtaf staie TrVS? f ?UCC0SS
transportation facilities tc tho arco iSar Mftni qi,ck
Valley and tho East, havo inadohirSS vfof.iS n1,? W8slS8,?pl
a practical certainty. mi to ioids and big prollts
Send at Once for
Mission Land Improvement Co., Mission, Texas
Gentlemen: Kindly send me full information concerning your
Irrigated La Lomita Lands, prices, terms, etc.
Nam e
Postoffice
R. F. D. or St. No.
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Profit of $300
tracts will aggregate 1,000 to 1,100 acres, which Is equivalent to a not
proflt at a very conservative yield of $300,000. From indications and re-
ZXllUy thUSht Umt th Pr,C f CabbaS 0 PC"
As tho cabbage is being cut, canteloupes, snap beans Irish nntntn nn
aro being planted, and when these aro marketed In April a d JtaS .? '
corn, and other crops will follow on the same ground y' Ctt0n'
of
clin!k0toGaUt 'mSSSS ITarld ati,2'u' ' .',' which to livo. Tho
summers pleasantly teSpeS lv GuYf tt?,J "d and Pleasant, and tho
aturo Is 72.8 doBrees. Tfioio is T nomJr? ffifthf PiS""1 .mean tSSpor-
1.,SlaSiSFffl5S S !"-ria, tho
4flA cMmate-Produces vegetation frnfoo.tnnuenco of the semi-tronlo
gm winter that find a wSltlnff market' fnSH,roCan0.and alfalfa In . mfd-
profits per acre of from $100 to ?500 northern states at net
vv e rrove It at MiMmn "
That nnwlmrn i a, i .
commensurate with tho nrnnfo ft
and tho strlotost lvos,tlOTt10nrt0rmfct,0n- Wo invlto your orrosPondoco
Mission Land Improvement Go
mission, Hiuaigo County. Texas
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