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The only spreader with a 32-year record of good work. Simplicity, Durability 

 I and Light Draft always foremost. Direct Chain Drive. No Cog Gears. The 

 choice of men who investigate thoroughly. Wood or metal wheels. A generation 

 of experience back of every Success. The leader from the first. Exclusive features 

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(Alfalfa $50 acre 



Pranks $300aore 

 Peaches $l50aen? 



Grapes $100 acre 



Vegetables $250 acre 



Dairy $100acre 



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( Poultry $Rper hen net 



Chas. L. Seagraves, Gen. Colonization 



San Joaquin Valley 



California 



will make you independent. 



The ambitious man or woman who 

 wishes a home, friends, a comfortable living, 

 and money in the banks to insure against 

 future want, will find them in the San 

 Joaquin Valley. 



Here are 10,000,000 fertile acres, with 

 an abundance of water for irrigation coming 

 from the ever present snows of the High 

 Sierras. The clear, warm California sun- 

 shine compels a sturdy, healthy plant 

 growth. Every staple crop is profitable here. 

 Nature is on your side. All that you need 

 is reasonable industry and success is certain. 



The man of small capital can get quick 

 returns from vegetables, alfalfa, hogs, 

 dairying and poultry, while the orchard and 

 vineyard is coming into bearing. 



Let me send you a 72-page book, telling 

 in plain language what others are doing. 

 For instance, it tells of Mr. S. W. Williams, 

 Tulare, Cal., who last year sold $3,000 

 worth of milk from 30 cows; of Mr. C. S. 

 IJaxter, Merced, Cal., who sold $7,200 

 worth of milk from 60 cows and got $1,200 

 for his surplus alfalfa. 



Go to California this fall; only $33 from 

 Chicago, $32 from St. Louis, $25 from 

 Missouri River, if you start any day, 

 October 1 to 15. Tickets honored in 

 Santa Fe Tourist sleepers on payment 

 of berth rate. If you ask for it, I also 

 will send you our journal, The 

 Earth, free for six months. 



Agent, A. T. & S. F. Ry. System, 1110 Railway Exchange, Chicago, III 



"THE VALLEY OF CONTENT." 



"THERE is now in press a little 16- 

 page booklet on the Valley of 

 Content that is about the most com- 

 prehensive piece of advertising matter 

 ever put out in behalf of any district 

 or section. 



"The Arkansas Valley 300 Miles of 

 Opportunity: It Is the Valley of Con- 

 tent." 



That is the title given to the little 

 book, and it is filled with statistics 

 nil the valley and with a recountal 

 of its resources. 



After a general introduction, the 

 book tells of the half million acres 

 under water in the Valley of Content; 

 the 100,000 acres of alfalfa; the 70,000 

 acres of beets; the one county that 

 raises a million dollars of fruit; the 

 county that raises a million dollars 

 worth of cantaloupes; and the county 

 that has a 3-million dollar wheat crop 

 this year. 



The different towns in the valley, 

 from Canon City to Garden City and 

 Cimarron, are then taken up and 

 tersely referred to as to their prin- 

 cipal possessions and sources of pride. 

 The names and officers of the various 

 23 commercial bodies are given, and 

 there follows a short paragraph on 

 each town, telling just what it needs 

 most. 



The book will be circulated by the 

 thousands. The first edition will be 

 25,000 and it will be sent by the Ar- 

 kansas Valley Commercial Associa- 

 tion to the various local clubs for 

 their use. It is felt that it will do 

 a great deal toward attracting still 

 further attention to the valley than 

 has already been accomplished by 

 means of the fact of the Eighteenth 

 National Irrigation congress. Pueblo, 

 September 26-30, and the National Ir- 

 rigation exposition, Pueblo, September 

 19-October 1, being held in the valley 

 this year. 



Las Animas, which is to hold a big 

 Santa Fe Trail celebration in a few 

 weeks, wants the next meeting after 

 that at Laniar. 



TEXAS TO BE AT THE CON- 

 GRESS. 



LM. MARKHAM, director of ex- 

 hibits for the National Irrigation 

 exposition, to be held in connection 

 with the Eighteenth National Irriga- 

 tion congress, Pueblo, September 2(>- 

 30, has most encouraging information 

 from Texas with the view to organ- 

 ized representation from that state at 

 the exposition. 



A letter to Mr. Markham from R. 

 N. Magill, secretary-manager of the 

 Lower Rio Grande Valley Association. 

 Brownsville, Texas, conveys the 

 rather unique idea of organization for 

 participation in not only the National 

 Irrigation exposition but various 

 other events of similar character. 



Mr. Magill says the Lower Rio 

 Grande Valley Association has just 

 been organized, superceding the 

 Lower Rio Grande Commercial Club. 

 It embraces in membership all the 

 leading land and irigation companies 

 of that valley, and its object is "the 

 united, mutual boosting of the advan- 

 tages and opportunities of this favored 

 section, and the cooperation of all in- 

 terests for the success of all," accord- 

 ing to Mr. Magill's letter. 



