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The Commoner.
12
VOLUME 9, NUMBER IT
Corn
and
Sorghum
AT SAN BENITO, TEXAS
(No. 7) .
At San Bonito you can grow two. crops of corn on tho samo ground during
tho muno season. ..
At San Benito you can grow four or five crops of sorghum on tho samo
ground during tho samo season and from ono planting.
Thcso may soom romarlcablo statoments when read by northern farmers
but you must romombor that wo have told you in former announcements
in Tho Commoner that thoro are twolvo months of growing season in tho
Lower Rio Grando Valley.
Corn
Wo aro not going to toll you farmers of Illinois, Iowa, Nebraska, Indiana
and other states noted as corn growing states that you can como to San
Bonito and raise moro corn each crop per aero than you can raise on tho
best ground lip there, but wo aro prepared to provo to you that if you will
tako tho tirno to como and make a porsonal investigation that you can
como hero and raiso two crops a year and that you may bo cribbing corn
from ono flold Tvhilo that in tho adjoining field is just beginning to como
up or porhaps only boing planted. You can havo roasting cars at any timo
from tho first of May until after New Year's Day. The two crops should
make you from eighty to ono' hundred bushels per aero.
Another thing: Thoro 1b always an unlimited demand for corn In tho
Lower Rio Grando Valloyand. at high prices. It ranges from seventy-five
conts to oho dollar per bushel.' At the present timo It is soiling at- ninoty
flvo conts In San Benito. ' ' . -
Sorghum
In tho Lowor Rio Grando YaJloy sorghum grows like weeds. It lives
HlVnilfHl mm mllrl 1irltl4no nml nmnmii itiAln .-.- 4. 1. t II. . . j
-...,.,. w... iiiiiu "'""'.J unu t.uvn nvtjYU IIIUJILIIB ill U1U y UUI . i.TIUr UO
I .ir.?U.h.a.vo ,to plant it every year. You cut it when It Is ready and it grows
up from tho stubble and is soon ready to cut again. Sorghum Is used in tho
San Benito country as rough feed for horses, mules and cattle and thero
Is nothing bettor. It should bo sowed broadcast and very thick. Wo think
not loss than throe bushols of seed to tho acre. It comes up and grows very
rapidly and soon tho flold Is a mass of groen. Being thick on tho ground
prevents It from becoming coarse. And tho smaller tho stalk tho bettor
tho food.
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' "u" "uiBnuin is property planted ana watered in this country it should
nl n. im uir l. fl. tons por acre each cu"ing and should bo cut four
In three yea?sB II n00d n0t b planted 0ftonor than
Sorghum has a ready salo at San Benito at from $7 tn 19 ro. f a 4.
the present timo it is worth $12 baled. If y?u rffi from 16 to'io t!!s d
aero por year and sell it at an average of $10 per ton you can ' Ho that
there aro largo profits In this product. Don't forgot that sorghum is a crop
is to sow it, Irrigato it and cut it. Our cllmato beintr semi-arid mnimq if
a,vnSiynl)mtt0,r t0 cVro th0 srghum wlthoutXnger of rain to spoirft
CabbHKo rn fnrm of air. Powoll cinn ut.i.v -i a
Powell ii,i old 8,000 worth o f 'n nic off of tffi "?rt nfter ?Ir
Cnu you beat this? Photo mode April 15. 8 acre !
Corn on Farm of Joe Roy, San Benito, Texas
Splendid Crops Pleased With Climate and People
San Benito, Texas, March 30th, 1000. I was one of the very first
settlers at San Benito, coming here In January, 1000. At that time
there was not an acre cleared at San Benito and not a single house
except the railroad section house. I have seen the big gravity canal
constructed, thousands of acres cleared and put In crops and scores of
residences built. I am well plenscd with the cllmato here, both sum
mers and winters. One thing that suits me especially Is tho class of
people settling at San Benito. I bought 40 acres here when I first
came at $4 an acre and since that time sold 15 acres of tills form at
$125 nn acre. My crops have been good. My corn Inst year "averaged
over iift-v bushels to the acre. TJoth my wife and myself are well
pleased with Snn Benito. (Signed) JOE ROY.
Sorghum molasses retails in Texas at about 75 conts per gallon. Sup
pose you got nfty cents per gallon and grind 1G tons to tho aero and
each ton makes 14 or 15 gallons of molasses. Tho expense of grinding
sorghum and making it into molasses Js very little and there is un
doubtedly a big profit awaiting thoso who go into this industry at
San Benito.
We do not want you to forget what has been said in former announce
ments about cabbage, onions and Dther truck crops wliich aro now being
harvested at San Benito. Wo aro pleased indeed to inform you that
Mr. Grow, Mr. KIsor, Mr. Powoll, Burress Brothers, Prof. Woodward, Mr.
.Landrum, Mr. McCarroll and many others aro making moro on their
cabbage and onions than they expected to make. Wo aro printing on
this page a copy of a photograph made of Mr. Powell's cabbage after
ho had harvested about $2,000 worth from this patch. In a formen an
nouncement we stated that Mr. Powell had ten acres in cabbage. Wo
find that this was a mistako and that his cabbago patch consists of only
eight and one-half acres. From the picture you will see that tho ground
llVl1! covr2$ wIth cabba.se. Mr. Powoll himself estimates that only
one-third of tho crop has been-harvested.
Since tho price Is not only keeping up but advancing it seems prob
able now that several of our cabbage growers will make as much as $600
SJwmmw.-S0?1?8 much as ?600 an acre In a future announcement
inglho oSct flguros? a r more of our truck growers, glv-
ValleryfwrrtItorthof0rraatIOn abUt San Benito and tho Lower Rio Grando
San Benito Land & Water Co. ,
San Benito, Texas, P. O. Box B
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