The Sulphur Springs Gazette. (Sulphur Springs, Tex.), Vol. 47, No. 11, Ed. 1 Friday, March 12, 1909 Page: 2 of 8
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TEE SULPHUR SFEIUGS GAZETTE. MARCH 12, 19C9
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one providing tor a reoueuon in in©
usilnr <-*?. Of »('hm>l t* Hchers. TVat.-hers
b %-m«M • hch-»vf “hIhhhs rhan a*
prt-r. Hi mi * o> « rac* men ami wo-
men of at)i Tli - i porta of and
neglected calling 'A'ill-Point Chron-
iel‘ .
The guardian- .- d trainerH of the
human ml, u li n .ve a saornd
tiu-', aid i i'.m," »u.\ t-r any
Co i mu ' oiii >v second band
ami i > I'hees O r chil-
li !■' ‘I Hrri'.liS (Hid
d -ti vt it s. opportunities sn the
he laud. A- h- i in trained in early
life, «o they will be in maturer years,
hence the importance of getting a
proper start in the right way, directed
by a competent and thorough teacher.
Such work is cheap no matter what
the price paid
The Old
Reliable
Peter Schuttler
Wagon
.. and the ..
Brown Wagon
Can always be de-
pended on.
The mistakes of store-buyers in estimating the buying
in forcasting the demands for certain
'1 in “store-congestion,” a mercantile
ailment that always requires ample publicity treatment for
it<* relief. Thus are “bargains” created—and marketed.
in-
g moods of the people
3 kinds of goods—result
: its relief.3 Thus are “bargains
l Thus it is that ad-readers and answerers profit by the
: evitable mistakes of fellow human beings.
: In all the walks of life people are given to blundering—
| to “overstocking,” to putting something, some personal con-
1 tribution, into “the opportunity incubator.” In the fulness
\ of time the old incubator yields its prizes to those who wait
and watch—who read and answer ads/
That’s why the ads. are not only INTERESTING as
J giving clues to phases of life both droll and tragic but are
: so IMPORTANT, in that they hold for us, for each of us
personally, some Pandora-box mystery, some unexpected
bit of good luck.
(Copyrighted.)
WE SELL THEM
What It Costs to Produce Cotton
Full Line of Collars, Bridles and Traces
PROFIT ON FIVE ACRES.
I have baano m\ calculation on five
acre* of poor hill laud, which was
cultivated by* iuv two children'
Preparation .......
Planting and fertilizing
700 lba add............
Cultivating ...........
3 bu seed.........
Picking 4,000 lba .....
Baling, etc..........
Hauling to market ...
We are headquar
ters for
$ 6 00
1 50
7.00
15.60
.75
20 00
2.00
6 00
The Texas Press Association is to
meet at Marlin in May. S'amford
will contest for the next meeting, and
her showing to win is said to be good.
f&Jji? ttje
PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY BY
McDaniel printing company
' , R. W. Fanning,
Editor and Proprietor.
AH kinds of
Mayor Tom L. Johnson, of Cleve-
land, Ohio, goes on the theory that it
is never too late to learn. At the age
of 54 he decides to change his tactics
and will become a student of Black
stone.
$58 75
Total........
Receipts:
Total received
Total cost----
For Plows
$116 00
58 75
Someone has figured that a fifty
dollar suit of clothes can be made
from $1,80 worth of wool. If this
proposition is correct, it is time to
look more carefnlly to the sheep in-
dustry.
OLIVER and BROWN Cultivators and Planters
$ 57 25
Net gain
Cotton can be raised at a profit ar
present prices as a money crop, I
did not charge them rent on land
Different locations and seasons have
something to do with the cost of rais
ing cotton—W. J. Martin, Cleveland
Co., Arkansas.
Let Us figure with You When You Need a Wagon or farming Implements
to
Oar sister town, Cooper, is expect-
ing W big time on the 15th, the oc-
casion being “Trades Day.” Every-
body who has anything to sell or
trade is cordially invited. Don’t for
get the date, Monday, March 15th.
Jefferson Street, Sulphur Springs, Texas
COST OF 9 ACRES ON UPLAND.
I send yon sn itemized account of
prodacing nine acres of cotton in 1908
on npland:
Cost of labor per day, $1 00.
Bedding land ..........
Planting.................
Grubbing land.....*......
Plowing, ten times.......
Honing, twice i.......
Picking 7894 pounds cotton
Hauling to gin .. .........
Ginning ........... .....
Rent at $3 per acre.......
.Vlule fetd................
Seed ...............-----
per pound, and made a profit of $6.35
per acre
Deducting from the cost of produc-
tion the value of the seed, or rather
crediting this value, it appears that
the lint produced has cost au average
of 6 25 cents per pound, making the
profit per pound 2 68 cents.
An interesting thing noticed is that
three of these farmers report that
they gave the seed for ginning.
Counting these seed worth the av-
erage of $11 per ton, I And that these
three men paid for their ginning and
hanling, $2.84 per acre, as against the
general average of $2 34, and an av-
erage of the other six of $1.98 They
paid for their ginning and baling an
average of $516 per bale, which
strikes me as rather costly practice.
I /find that only one farmer oat of
the nine reports a loss on his crop.
The itemized statements of his ac-
count is as follows:
Acres reported
Cost of
Production
Prnparation..........
Planting and tend.....
Cultivation..........
Picking............
G'nning, etc...........
Rent.................
•k Total ............
Rncnlprs:
Loir, 7 bales estimated
3 500 lbs.............
Seed, est. at 7,000 lbs..
Total.............
report, but it plainly indicates the
reason for the loss. In fact, if his
yield had been doable, hi9 profit, af-'
ter allowing for the extra picking and
ginning, would have been $184, in-
stead of a loss of $40.
In comparison with this one, it is
interesting to study the account of
the man who made the highest yield.
I find that he rented his land. His
account follows.
Acres reported.
Cost of
Production
Preparation .
Planting.....
Cultivation ..
Picking ..
Ginning, etc.
Rent..... ..
' Old Jefferson.
There are some things onr youthful
readers don’t know; just a few! Ode
is, that 36 years ago Jtfferson was the
of ail this
It now transpires they will have to
run the State Fair at Dallas this year
without the horse racing and betting
feature. Some thought this could not
be done, but it will be done, anyhow,
and donbtless the Fair will be highly
attractive and satisfactory to both
promoters and exhibitors.
$ 5 00
1.70
165
25 30
itp,
39 50
6,80
13.95
2700
1000
"$»0
- The deficit of Pennsylvania is sev
%,enty-nine million dollars..
Some say the fruit crop is injured;
others think not—and there we are.
queen city
immediate
south-west, and the trading metro-
polis of a vast and wide area. Steam-
boats stuck their noses at the wharf
as thick and as often as wagons come
now. Twenty dollar doubloons were
as plenty, as nickles and dimes now. *
Then the long horned ox trains
drawing their heavy dotty loads, came
like a caravan, and the long- eared
six mule trains came, wending in and
then out like the ordnance outfit of A
moving army. The rub then with the
merchants was not alone to sell goods,
but to keep enough of them! Beelfy
that was old Jefferson!
It’s all true that of late yestrs Jef-
ferson has not fared so lavishly at the
bands of fickly fate. Bat the winter
of pur discontent is now passing- and
the roseate dawn of a better day is
flecking . her sky. The incoming
regime of Wm. fH. Taft is big with
promises for the south- west, and Jef-
ferson has a future in her ideal loca-
tion. Her Weary - Williams and. Rip
Van Winkles will yet come out from
their nodding and napping. The lat-
ter days have a fighting chance to
eclipse those of her former grand
period. J. W. Lively.
ggjphe rain this week was timely and
the thing moat needed on the farms.
President Taft is no horseman, and
his chief mode of locomotion will be
by automobile. There, will be no more
white house carriages and high-dress-
ed drivers. Congress has already »p
propriated twelve thousand dollars
for two tplehdid machines to whirl
the corporosity of the president about.
... -.
R ceipts:
2,660 pounds lint cotton.
Cotton seed from crop..
’ i
Total ..............
Cost of making crop
Net gain or profit.... ..... .$16850
Yon will note from these figures
that East Texas sandy land gives bet-
ter returns tban the high priced land
in the West. I bad prospects' for
nine bdes but the wnevil got, the
other 32£bales l will trv and da bet-
ter rnir* year.—L-e Scott, Harrison
Co., T~xaw 1 1
Total.
$8150
. 23.00
92 00
30165
132,31
356.27
President '$Wt has made up his
$257 75
149.25
The fine rains which have fallen
this /week are gladly received, and
will be of great benefit to the crops.
For several weeks we have had prac-
tically no rain; the tanks and cisterns
of the country were getting low/and
the recent downpour has been a great
blessing. The farmer*, as far as wh
have learfied, have their gronn•-* in
fine condition «nrt ri*nd- f-*r the rain.
Total..
Receipts
Lint......
Seed......
$996 73
$19 92
$ 1,358
173 44
$27.09
3 47
Per
Acre
$ 1 50
The happy turn things have taken
week on the rain calendar is
enough to put the knocker out of
commission.
Total.
$ 45 00
24 00
75 00
84 00
45 50
120.00
Total.............$1,532.15 $30 56
Profit............ 5 35.42 10 64
comparison of the yields per acre
with the profits, shows a remarkably
close line of synlpathy. The two are
given in parallel columns:
Profit. Yield.
$10 00 304.1
8 53 ‘ 250 0
6 35 258.5
4 72 192 0
4 30 234 0
3 47 158 3
2 85 167.0
1.42 125.0
133 116 0
, AVERAGE COST OF PRODUCTION OF
COTTON
I have r-ad I he col ton report® lu
Farm and Rtncb of February J.3, and
compiled ifinm, and worked out Vari-
ous average* in detail >1 nend you a
copy of the compilation
In ibis table I have compiled all the
report-, except two—oue from Ar
kausas, and one in which no details
were given. In tbose listed, I have
reduced tbe information given to the
various items of cost, and (he total
cost in each case agrees in your issue
except that in one or two cases I have
added the value of the rent at $4, and
in tbe last three I have charged tbe
value of seed to ginning and credited
to receipts, which is equivalent to
ginning for the seed and preserves
the detail
This table gives tbe following ag-
gregate information from these coun-
ties: Bexar, Hill, Bastrop, Falls, Bell,
Hunt, Gray son, Coleman and Waller:
Number acres reported............231
Cost of t*er
Product ion Total. Acre.
Collin connty farfo«*-s will rnrtnr*
their acreage in onions thi* \f-ar 75
percent from last y-ar The reason
assigned for light, prices last, \ B»r ai d
tbe coi sequent failure of .profit from
an enormous crop is ebarynd !*<•«
of organization and judicious provi*
ions fQr marketing the crop P«>*-.ibi»
this is true in part for the low price*.
However, ^ve have heard it niK^eHird
that whHe Collin county soil grows
onions to perfection and turns out. »
big yield, that the quxliry of the crop
and its (keeping’ properties fall short,
of those propagated In the Lar-do
fields, and it may be his accounts fur
the apparent, failure in Collin counts.
|/ Profanity over the/phone is now a
|;‘ thing of the past. The legislature has
♦cut it out’ under penalty of a fine,
L -and this is right.
$393 50
$13 12
A new canning factory is one of the
x$cent acquisitions at ML Pleasant.
The promoters will have it ready for
the coming crop.
This w*riter never saw better horses,
finer horse racing, nor more interest
in breeding horses than in Minnesota,
and Minnesota, with perhaps Hie
greatest state fair in the United States
has seen fit to stop the race
gambling evil. The writer has seen
30,000 watching*the races from the
grand stand and nearly as many more
from the nearby bills at the Minnesota
Fair, and never beard a hint that Hie
races would have been at tractive or the
patronage better nnder the old time
condition* us to gambling It is alia
•ni«ieke that gambling helps the horse
breeding or horse racing —Brown wood
Bulletin f <
$315.00
. 3860
$10 50
1 28
Total cost____
Total receipts
Dr. Crum, the negro whom Roose-
velt appointed Collector of Customs
at Charleston, Sooth Carolina, has
tendered bis resignation.
6 35 238.6
A close study of this table will be
of much interest. I intend to compile
all the reports as they are published
A discussion of them along the above
lines will make good reading. *
F W. Gist,
Special Agent U. S Department of
Attricuhare, Guthrie, Ok la.
Net loss
$ 40 00 $ 1.34
Barring the fact that this man paid
the equivalent of $5.60 per bale for
ginning, bis cost of production was
b«low the average, but we find that
his yield per acre was 116 6 pounds of
lint, less than half the avnrage. Tbe
reason for this does nor appear in his
Those who were, fortunate.enough
In getting their corn planted before
the rbin made a big hit. It will be
out of the ground in a few days.
Nothin* *<» thoroughly removes dis-
ease verm* from the system as Prick-
ly Ash Bitters It gives life and ac
tion to th- torpid liver, strengthens
and as*i*ts the kidneys to properly
cleanse tbe blood, gives tone to the
stomach, purifies tbe bowels, and pro-
motes good *ppetite, vigor and cheer-
fulness. Walker’s Drug 8tore, 8oe
oial Agents
Mr. Taft Is now president in fact,
and while be may be elated in having
die honor of presiding as chief msg-
istrate of the nation, it is safe to say
he is not overjoyed at facing an emp-
ty treasury and an overwhelming de-
ficit. N'
Your Eyes are Surely Worth More to You
than the Price of a Pair of Glasses
: _v I - /
_ If yon value your eyes, have them properly fitted at
Blank Deeds, Mortgages, Notes, Vendor’s Lien Notes, Deeds of Trust,
Release of Vendor’s Lien, Release of Deed of Trust, Bill of Sale, Con-
tracts, Leases, Power of Attorney, Affidavit to Account, and almost any
other kind of blank you need or could wish. We have them in stock
and can supply you. :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: ::
li you value your eyes, have them properly fitted at once.
Delay, and your eyes may become so bad that no glasses will
help them; then you will regret it all the rest of your days.
That is true—every word of it. Do not trust traveling- op-
ticians kttft^spectacle peddlers to fit you with glasses. They
get your money—and you get experience. This we know, be-
cause it Uiin4d us by people that come to us for glasses after
having boufffctpf the spectacle peddler.
We ha#$ Ute fcest lenses made, each lens being ground for
each eye defect. We will examine your eyes FREE if you
Net profit........$1,468.30 $ 6 86
From the above, I find that the»e
nine farmers, after paying for all their
labor, or allowing themselves pay for
their own labor and that of their
teams, after paying for ginning and
other items of cost, and allowing
themselves a rental for their land or
paying rent, they have produoed a
little leas than a half bale to the acre;
sold H for an average of s.ti oents
Jeweler and Optician
$4,028.83
$17 44
$4,914 83
$21.27
. 6 82 30
2 52
$5,497 13
$23.79
$353 50
$11 78
$393 60
$13 13
. 353 50
11 78
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Fanning, R. W. The Sulphur Springs Gazette. (Sulphur Springs, Tex.), Vol. 47, No. 11, Ed. 1 Friday, March 12, 1909, newspaper, March 12, 1909; Sulphur Springs, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth815916/m1/2/: accessed May 6, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Hopkins County Genealogical Society.