ARBORICULTURE. 33 



A Farm for You, SoxitKAvest 



ONE CROP MAY PAY FOR IT 



The Eastern tenant (and you who read may be one) rents his farm, 

 and, by getting up early and working late, succeeds at the end of the 

 year in having made a fair living, with the bulk of the farm products 

 belonging to the landlord. He can keep this up, year aftpi year, and. at 

 the end of any term of years, he is about where he started, with this 

 difference — both he and the farm have perceptibly run down. The 

 longer he keeps at it, the poorer he is. There's a better way. There's 

 nothing new or strange about it. Thousands have tried it and " won 

 out." Why not you? Let us tell you how. 



There are ways and ways — one of them is to sell out, gather up all 

 the money you can, and go West and homestead. This can be done, but 

 there is this fact to remember : Nearly all the best places are taken. 

 One can find any amount of raw land remote from railroads, schools, 

 and churches, out of the world and away back, where, in the course of 

 time, civilization may penetrate. But there's a better way than all that. 

 It is to buy a farm in the Southwest, along the Santa Fe, and start in 

 with all the advantages you left behind, and more 



You can buy that sort of a place at from $10 an acre to many times 

 that amount. The difference in price depends on nearness to towns, 

 railroads, the state of cultivation, and all that sort of thing. But a better 

 farm, so far as fertility of the soil and productiveness are concerned, 

 may be had for $10 an acre, than you could get anywhere back East for 

 $50 an acre. Here's another fact : It may seem remarkable, but it is a 

 fact, that the first crop will often pay for the land. It has occurred in 

 thousands of instances, and will occur again. 



Where is all this to be done? That's where we come in, willing 

 and ready to help you. You ought to have detailed information, and 

 we will send it to you for the asking. Down in Southern and South- 

 western Kansas a $io-an-acre farm is waiting for you, and it is 

 probably better than the one you leave behind, owned by the landlord. 



It is not for us to discriminate between sections, but this is 

 undoubtedly true of Southwestern Kansas. Over the line in Oklahoma 

 and Texas the same thing can be done, with the stock-raising idea more 

 prominent. Down in the Pecos Valley, in New Mexico, it is an irriga- 

 tion proposition, and vegetation of all kinds simply runs riot in its 

 profusion — and people are going there by the carloads. While land 

 is high priced there, you don't need much of it. You couldn't farm a 

 hundred acres, not if somebody gave it to you. Forty acres would be 

 plenty. In Southwest Kansas, with a good team, you can farm 160 

 acres, but in an irrigation country you can not do this. Everything is 

 intensive and concentrated where water is required. In Arizona the 

 conditions are much the same, and so all along the Santa Fe until you 

 come to California, where everything is different 



Now, if you write me, I will send you pamphlets that tell a complete 

 story of this wonderful country. 



CI ^ TT A /"* O A "Vr'P ^ General Colonization Agent' 



. 1^. ^IL,J^VJtf..r\.\ SL>^f Atchison, TopeKa Cgi. Santa Fe Kail- 



AtcHison, TopeKa Cgi. Santa Fe Rail-way Co. 



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