ARBORICULTURE. 97 



A FARM FOR YOU 



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 after 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 

 01 cultivation, and all that soi-t 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 a further fact: It may seem remarkable, but it '' ^ Cact, 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 Southwestern Kansas a $10-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 irrigation 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 will fill in coupon below, we'll send you pamphlets that tell a 

 complete story of this wonderful country. 



C. L. SEAGRyVVES, General Colonization Agent 



Atchison. Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Co. 



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