Image provided by: University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries, Lincoln, NE
About The commoner. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1901-1923 | View Entire Issue (April 2, 1909)
1 Ti TT" v 'tf"7HiPOTPR ..nW'V" The Commoner. VOLUME f , NUMBER II HSSS rf ii i i f I' KafraBdbdrtaiBiafld I TT ff Talk Over the Matter emoval to San Benito Where Land is EASY to BUY, EASY to CUL TIVATE, and SURE to PRO DUCE CROPS No. 3. A man onco started out with a handful of twenty dollar sold pieces which ho had wagered with a frlonil ho could sell AT TUB FACE VALUE to the first person ho met. Ho travolod far and wide, offering1 thorn hero and thoro. To his Hurprlso ho FOUND FEW BUYERS. People soomod actually afraid of tho coins. Thoy didn't know pure gold when thoy saw it. Thoy had been humbugged so often that It had bocomo second nature to distrust practically everything. Neither would thoy stop to Investigate. Tho O Ulcers and Directors of the San Benito Land & Water Company. Now that's a cood deal tho way it Is with our San Benito land proposition. As a purchaser onco said to us: "YOUR PROPOSITION HAS SO MANY AT TRACTIVE FEATURES THAT IT'S REALLY TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE." Tho only thing wo want is an OPPORTUNITY to convlnco you that it IS truo. "Wo don't claim that wo'ro a phllanthroplcal institution. Not we. But there's as much real good in our offer to bomeseckors as thoro Is in much philanthropy, Do you remombor tho experience of tho man with tho steamboat some years ago? Fulton was his namo, wasn't It? Many woro Bkoptlcal. Said "THAT BOAT WILL NEVER GO.'' But did It? DID IT? And how about tho first rcapor7 Tho first thresher? The first steel plow? Tho first cotton gin? Tho first aoroplano? Tho first ANYTHING? They said: "Watch out. It's a fako." You remombor very woll, don't you, tho days of tho "old farmer" regime? When everything was donq BY HAND on tho farm. How long It took to plant and cultlvata and harvest a crop? And how small was tho profit on account of tho great tlmo and labpr spont? But you also rcallzo, don't you, what a wonderful change has como? What improvements you now havo. How quickly you NOW plant and cultivate and harvest? What has dono this? You know It's MACHINERY. This has boon tho AGE OF MACHINERY on tho farm. It has mado tho American farmer tho most independent, tho wealthiest, tho moBt widely rovorcd man in America. Ab a popular magazine writer ha3 said: "One American harvest will buy tho kingdom of Belgium, King- and all. Two would buy Italy. Throo would Will Make Over $4,200 from 10 acres Planted in Cabbage March 22 1909 Mr. Frank Caldwell, Sales Mgr., San Benito Land & Water Co., Sari Benito, Texas. Dear Sir: Wo havo ten acres In cabbago on tho San Benito Canal, which we are now harvesting. Judging from what wo havo already cut we ostlnmto that tho entlro crop will average about 12 tons to tho acre. What wo havo sold brought us $38.00 and $39.00 per ton frco on board at San Benito. Buyers aro now offering $42.00 with tho market strengthening. Our expenses aro about as follows: Seed for 10 acres, $5.00; transplanting 10 acres, $25.00; water for 10 acros, $100.00; cultivation and Irrigating, $25.00; cutting, hauling to Btatlon and loading on cars, $200.00; total $355.00. You can readily flKuro mu i"uuvo nu 4u.jr itupunauij uA.yuub. iuuis vury truiy, iii, ii. fie u. VJ. lroweil. buy Austria-Hungary. And five, at a spot cash price, would tako Russia from the Czar. NOW, HOWEVER, Wo'ro JUST ENTERING ON THE AGE OF SCIEN TIFIC METHODS IN FARMING. Scientific agriculture is young. It liad to wait until machinery paved tho way. First, wo found out the composition of water. A Frenchman did this. Next wo founded agricultural experiment stations. Then agricultural colleges and schools, as woll as agricultural papers. Then wo applied chemistry and found out that tho soil was alive., Indeed, wo find now that farming is touched by science on all sldos. YOU know you can tako a pinch of your soil, send it to a chemist and fyave. him toil you just wnat crops aro nest suited, to it- Aro all these things IMPOSSIBLE? IMPOSSIBLE YESTERDAY. ENTIRELY PRACTICABLE TODAY. . - Step by step farming is becoming A SURE AND SCIENTIFIC PRO FESSION. - ( . . But perhaps tho GREATEST "trick" of all is in tho vast stretches of waste and arid lands now being turned into fertile valleys by IRRIGA TION. It transforms tho desert into a farmer's paradise where NOTH ING IS SO PUNCTUAL AS THE CROPS. Now wo want to say to you that tho land we aro offering you on such liberal terms at San Benito is as far superior to ordinary farm property as an automobile is to an ox-cart. Why? Because under tho conditions existing hero FARMING IS REDUCED SUBSTANTIALLY TO A SCIENTIFIC BASIS. - You can't name a single necessary factor to successful, diversified, un interrupted farming that is LACKING at San Benito. We havo the. land rich, alluvial silt deposited through tho. ages by the meanderings of tho mighty Rio Grande in its delta. Wo have an equable climate, not too hot, not too cold. Practically everything' grows hero. Demonstration after demonstration has been made. "You can grow staples, forage crops, fruit, vegetables, berries, nuts, anything and everything. And you'll average about doublo tho yield of other lands, and get a better quality than elsewhere, too. Don't forget that. You can harvest as many as four crops a year. Think of it. No timo lost on account of tho weather. You have here an inexhaustible water supply THAT YOTT CAN CON TROL AT YOUR PLEASURE. When your plants aro thirsty, you can givo them to drink. When they're satisfied, tho ditches remove the surplus. You're your own judge and master of tho water problem. This scientific surety of crop production has been secured through our great gravity system of Irrigation. It places In your hand as won derful a power to produce wealth as tho magic wands wielded by tho wizards of old. All is not gold that glitters BUT REAL GOLD GLITTERS AS WELL AS BRASS AND TINSEL. Don't forget that. THE ONLY VARIABLE QUANTITY IN THE FARMING EQUATION AT SAN BENITO IS THE "KNOW HOW" THAT YOu2JSE Now, there's just one factor in the farming eauation at Sn.n Ttnltn that IS VARIABLE UNCERTAIN, but that Is something Jv2r wWcS wo have no control. It'n tho, "WNnw Trrvrer" mrr a m i-Mf'r nVl&ii1,.'." ' . . .7 T - - w w A. A 1 x .... W M. . 1 fl 1 1111 VCIIII-fXIlT i . OnbbuRc ut Sim Benito, Texas. Photo mnilc February 14, 1008. FURNISH. Naturally, wo can't guarantee that YOU, or any particular individual can como to San Benito AND GET RICH QUICK; To do -so would be MAYBE? n Ur P WB DN,T KNW WHAT YOUR ABILITY But wo can say this to all. You can come here, and. with the same S&0Sk9f n,orFry business ability, and brain work? you can eertafnW DO MUCH BETTER than you have dono elsewhere. For her? 5ou have our great gravity irrigation system right at your beck and can YoS tvom bSoUth.er m drouffht' or from fioodsVwe've protected ySS Wo -want YOU TO CONVINCE YOURSELF FROM A -PTORQrvNrAT tvt VESTIGATION THAT HAPPINESS AND 'PROSPERITY AWAlSmr SAN BENITO. IF YOU DON'T, YOU MAY SOON LEARN rfmIwUp4 CEPTIONAL OPPORTUNITY LOST. LfcARN OF, AN J3X- Our land is limited in area. It won't last always. ?-. Perhaps the best way for you to judge the true worth of our proposition would be to also get literature Z!? &?COvP?ie? e!sewhere and compare the f.JgfrtS'-".!!