182 ARBORICULTURE 



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 terra 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 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, civiliza- 

 tion 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 a further 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 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 South- 

 western 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 

 Sante 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<. SEAGR.AVES, General Colonization Agent 

 Atchison, Topeka ^Sl Santa Fe Railway Co. 



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