'36 TEXAS STATE DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



With these conditions existing, 100,000 people left the United States 

 for Canada in a single year, and fifty carloads passed through here 

 (Houston) in one day on their way to the Rio Grande Valley to pay 

 $100 an acre for land. While the Canadian works six months to get 

 food and fuel while he is frozen up the next six, and at the same time 

 hundreds of East Texas children never saw snow. 



The one remedy and the only natural way to settle East Texas is 

 fa) buy the lands and settle them, not with foreigners, but with native- 

 -born, red-blooded Americans. Not the kind of which there are far too 

 ;many now, who begin to work in March and quit and go fishing in July, 

 .and who live and plow and plant "like daddy did," but men who will 

 'farm with their brains, and have a garden in September, just as they 

 had in May, and who have sense enough to know that it costs no more 

 to keep a Jersey cow that will give three gallons of milk a day than it 

 does to keep a scrub that will give a quart, and that he can keep a 

 'Berkshire for half he can keep a razorback that he has to tie knots in 

 ;the tail of to keep him from getting through the cracks of the fence. 



'The man who has not a home and farm had best get one and do it 

 quick. The cause of the cry about high cost of living is too many 

 eaters and not enough producers. There must be more land put to the 

 plow. East Texas has the last 13,000,000 acres of cheap land in a 

 temperate climate in all the South. She is going to arrive into her 

 own and that very soon. 



NORMAN G. KITTRELL. 



Professor Ness' letter: 



COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, April 22, 1914. 

 ^Hon. R. T. Milner, Henderson, Texas. 



IMy DEAR MR. MILNER: I am glad to embrace this opportunity of 



.-giving you my impression of East Texas, where not many years ago I 



was a farmer. I selected my farm in husk county as the locality where 



-industry, added to a small capital, seemed to give assurance of a safe 



*,and independent home. 



IT1 -was not without regret that I sold my little farm; but I knew 

 that, even with good renters on it, the improvements which I had made 

 during my four years' stay must be stopped and deterioration take its 

 place. Just that consideration made me sell the farm, for I was well 

 -aware of what work it would be to rebuild houses, fences and fertility 

 -.after a few years of renting out the place, myself living in the mean- 

 while at a distance of two hundred miles. 



In traveling over the State, which I sometimes have occasion to do, 

 and frequently into parts where newcomers are settling-, or where all is 

 -done to induce them to settle, I cannot but notice how much higher 

 prices, greater number of hardships and inconveniences they encounter 

 than I did in East Texas. Fence timber I found conveniently and in 

 abundance, on the place; a well fourteen feet deep, with most excellent 

 water, was found at the back porch of my new-built house ; clear flow- 

 ing water from springs in a place most suitable for cattle pasture, and 

 fin another place near mv barn suitable hog pasture. These were con- 

 veniences that came gratis. 



My place contained only seventy-five acres and was not exceptional in 

 these advantages; they were common on every farm. 



