The Plano Star-Courier (Plano, Tex.), Vol. 39, No. 35, Ed. 1 Friday, October 11, 1918 Page: 4 of 12
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WHAT YOU CAN DO TO HELP WIN THE WAR
Besides Fighting in the Trenches or Making Munitions
You can help our government and our allies by buying
irrigated land from me in the Lower Rio Grande Valley of Tex-
as and having my organization put it in cultivation for you.
I will put the land you purchase from me in cultivation for
you and have the work done by skilled Mexican farm laborers
so it will not be necssary to bring labor from any other parts of
the country to do the work. We have all the farm labor we
need in the lower Rio Grande Valley.
It is every bit ae essential to have food for our soldiers and
those of our allies as is the manufacture of munitions of war-
fare, for soldiers must have plenty to eat in order to fight well
and it is up to the American people to feed the world now and
for several years after the war.
If you do not care to farm the land I feel sure 1 can get you
a renter who will make an average of from 75 to 100 busehls
of corn to the acre. I will have him plant this crop between
February 1st and 10th, so that the crop will be ready to har-
vest by July 1st. I will then require him to plant a bean crop
as soon as he can prepare the land and harvest the corn. At
the present prices he should average $100.00 to $125.00 per
acre for the beans. The bean crop should be off and the land
ready for cabbage by October 15th. The cabbage crop would
be marketed during the month of February and the fore part of
March. If the farmer then wants to grow corn on the same
land it will be all right to plant same before the cabbage is har-
vested as I have seen this done on several occasions, therefore
he can continue to grow three crops on the same land during
the twelve month period.
Or, if you prefer, you can average 10 tons of alfalfa hay or
eight tons of Rhodes Grass hay to the acre per year. Rhodes
grass will average about six and alfalfa about eight cuttings.
You can graze three head of cattle on an acre of Rhodes grass
pasture during a twelve month period.
The reason why it is possible to raise such crops is because
of the extreme richness of the soil (one of the richest in the
world) a twelve months growing season and a plentiful supply
of water for irrigation purposes.
The Harlingen District where my lands are situated, has
recently contracted for four new engines and pumps in addi-
tion to those now in use so the farmers in this district will
have seven separate units to pump water with by the early
part of the year, which will supply sufficient water to irrigate
all the land in the district, when all the land is in cultivation,
and still have a surplus of probably 75,000 gallons per minute
as a reserve in case the valley should have less rainfall than
usual or one or two of the engines should get out of order.
If you are in a position to buy as much as forty acres of
this irrigated land you can raise thereon enough corn, beans or
potatoes and cabbage to feed fifty soldiers for twelve months.
I am offering my renters and the people 1 sell land to a
guarantee that they can produce sixty bushels of corn to the
acre, one hundred bushels of potatoes to the acre and six tons
of cabbage to the acre. These three crops would sum up as
follows. 2400 bushels of corn, 4000 bushels of potatoes, and
120 tons of cabbage, these three crops being raised on your
forty acres of land within twelve months time, provided the
landholder or renter will farm according to my instructions.
For your information I will state that corn in the lower Rio
Grande Valley is now selling at $1.90 per bushel, cabbage sold
last winter for from $30.00 to $70.00 per ton and the winter
before last from $75.00 $120.00 per ton, potatoes raised in the
valley bring all the way from sixty cents to $1.50 per bushel.
Now you can take your pencil and figure it cut for yourself
and see whether it will pay you to buy land from me at $200
per acre on the basis of my clearing, plowing ant. putti ig in the
irrigation laterals for you at the above price.
The land is all choico smooth land and within a few miles
of a good railroad town. The terms are one-half cash and the
balance in five equal annual payments G per cent.
Land in the lower Rio Grande Valley is increasing in value
very rapidly and I strongly advise you to see rny land at once if
you want to get the benefit of the present low prices. The
choice locations are gradually being taken.
If not in a position to, or would rather not farm your land
personally at this time, I will be glad to rent same from you on
the basis of paying you $25.00 per acre cash rent in addition
to paying all of the water charges for the use of your land for a
twelve month period from the time the land is improved, or if
you prefer, I will get you a good renter on the crop rent basis and
look after vour land generally for you ami I will only charge
you five per cent of your share of the crop rent as my pay.
Your land rented on the crop basis, if properly farmed,
should net you from $75 00 to $100.00 per acre as your share
and with a possibility of even more.
If you know of any responsible land man who will offer you
land anywhere in the United States, outside of the Lower Rio
Grande Valley and will guarantee you that much from your land
or that crop production per acre, for less than a price of $500
per acre, I will make you a present of this amount, so please tell
the land man who claims he can make you such a guarantee so
that he can make this $500 on the side. This will also be a
good thing to tell the knockers and self-appointed guardians.
I still have a number of choice tracts that I will rent to men
who can furnish me with the proper sort of references, men who
can show me that they are good farmers, the kind we want in
the Harlingen district of the Lower Rio Grande Valley.
There are good opportunities for contractors and carpenters
in the valley at this time as between 75 and 125 houses prob-
ably will have to be built on farms near Harlingen within the
next four months.
If you are interested in the foregoing, talk over the matter
with my representative in your vicinity or write or call at my
Dallas office.
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DALLAS
HARLINGEN
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The Plano Star-Courier (Plano, Tex.), Vol. 39, No. 35, Ed. 1 Friday, October 11, 1918, newspaper, October 11, 1918; Plano, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth570421/m1/4/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Collin County Genealogical Society.