Mercedes Tribune (Mercedes, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 26, Ed. 1 Wednesday, July 29, 1914 Page: 3 of 8
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Advertisements inserted in this col-
umn will be charged forat the rate
of 5-centsper line each issue. No
ad, accepted for less than 25c.
Wanted—10 cords wood two or
four feet cuts.—E. E. Evans.
We are now buying corn and
will pay cash, all market will
justify.—Rio Grande Grain Co.
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r or Sale—Sows and pigs. See
W. D. Swaney, two miles south
6f Mercedes. 29-2
Arkansas Land for Trade.
Farms, also business and
v* town property for trade. Want
30 to 80 acres near town; must
. -
be clear or nearly clear im-
proved property. Only owners
apply. H. 0. Green, Hope, Ark.
For sale at a sacrifice—A
first class work horse. None
better in the Valley. Inquire
at Tribune office.
Ror Rent—40 acres, all in
cultivation, 1 mile north of
Mercedes; good improvements;
good well of water. Inquire of
Henry Lindemann, Mercedes,
Texas. 28-2
For Rent—40 acre farm all
• cleared, has been farmed, house
10x36, a good well. Ask Rev.
F. J. Lange, Box 275, Mer-
cedes, Tex. 28-2
For Sale or Rent — 20 acres
of broken land; water lateral;
about two miles from Mercedes.
Liberal terms. Write J. P. Bai-
ley, 320 Y. M. C. A. Bldg., Oma-
!ha, Neb. 19-. . .t.
Choice, selected Egyptian
wheat seed for planting. Noth-
ing better for silage. The best
crop to follow your corn. Price
$3.00 per bushel. You will pay
$3.50 per bushel anywhere else.
7 Alameda Jersey Farm, Donna,
Texas.
For Sale—Maxwell runabout,
as good as new, good top and
lights; for references, apply to
Box 45, Mercedes. Wm. Mar-
K shall Hill.
Wanted—Party to rent 40
acre irrigated farm with 40
acre pasture and good improve-
ments iy2 miles from eMrcedes.
Address Dr. B. O. Works,
Brownsville, Texas. 30-2t
PEANUTS AND HOG RAISING IN TEXAS
For rent—the coming year,
19 acres broken land of lot 2,
Block 42. Liberal terms. Write
A. C. Broadbent, Independence,
Kans.
For Sale—Set-of seven quar-
tered oak dining chairs and one
rocker. R. T. Burns, Mercedes
hotel.
AUTOipOBlLES
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READY FOR BUSINESS
We are at your orders for
any ^nd-all sor^s of automo-
bile/repairing work. We work
quickly, yet do not stint care-
fulness or thoroughness. Glad
to have your orders for any sort
of auto repairing. We handle
full line of sundries and sup-
plies.
Knocked Down and Robbed.
A Mexican was knocked down
at Alvin Sunday night by two
men and robbed of $8. The
men made their escape and up
to the present there has been
no trace of them.
The business men and farm-
ers of Texas are overlooking a
tremendous opportunity for pro-
fit where they fail to consider
the peanut and the hog in Tex-
as farming. Briefly the case
stands thus:
From ten pounds of corn the
farmer can get one pound of
of pork; from ten pounds of
peanuts he can get from two to
two and a quarter pounds of
pork. An acre of corn produc-
ing fifty bushels may be ex-
pected to make five hundred
pounds of pork; an acre of pea-
nuts producing, say, forty bush-
els and a ton of hay will make
one thousand to twelve hun-
dred and fifty pounds. As the
best weight at which to market
a hog is from one hundred and
eighty to two hundred and fifty
pounds, one could expect two
acres of corn to fatten five hogs
if he were skillful enough as a
farmer and had sufficient rain-
fall to get a yield of one hun-
dred bushels—the state average
yield is about twenty-two bush-
els per acre. Two acres of pea-
nuts should fatten ten to fifteen
hogs.
The advantage of the peanut
over corn as a pork producer
does not fully state the case,
for. there are other advantages
in favor of the peanut in hog
raising in the cost of produc-
tion and the draft upon the
soil. Corn is a very exacting
crop, requiring plenty of rain,
drawing heavily upon the soil
fertility—a yield of forty bush-
els per acre takes out of the
ground about $14.50 in plant
food—is a subject to insect
pests and plant diseases, and
require to be harvested at con-
siderable expense of labor and
money. The peanut is a
drouth resister, making good
yields when corn withers in
the field, is a soil builder, and
has few insect enemies, and the
hog will do his own harvesting,
digging up the ground while
rooting for the nuts and refer-
tilizing the soil with animal ma-
nure while he feeds. The pea-
nut requires less cultivation al-
so than corn and will grow bet-
ter on poorer land.
In a sentence, as a feed for
hogs the case may be sumed
up as being between a drouth-
affected and somewhat expen-
sive crop on one hand and a
practically certain and much
cheaper crop on the other and
the comparative net profits as
expressed in pork are in the
proportion of one against two
to five. The argument for pea-
nuts must not be taken as be-
ing against corn growing on
Texas farms, but rather that
peanuts should also be grown,
especially in connection with
hog raising.
The hog is of all farm ani-
mals a quick money-maker. A
sow will produce two litters of
seven to fourteen pigs a year,
and these pigs should be made
ready for the market at eight
to ten months. The market
quotation at present shows a
two hundred pound animal to
be worth $17 at North Fort
Worth—or, the output of two
acres of peanuts in pork is
worth, at the market, $170 to
$255 as against $85 where the
farmer has raised one hundred
bushels of corn on his two
acres, or $40 where he has
made only the state’s average
yield. Furthermore, as has
been shown, there is less ex-
pense to pay in crop production
for the peanuts.
The peanut is peculiarly
adapted to the sandy loams of
Texas, and hog production is
not a business requiring a large
outlay and is, therefore,
within the reach of the men of
little means, the small farmer
who has difficulty in keeping
ahead of his debts; and the in-
vestment may be turned over
several times a year. Business
sense, work and study are re-
quisites of success, howdver, in
this as in every other gainful
occupation.
The farmers of Stephens
county, Oklahoma, are planting
85,000 acres to peanuts this
year. In 1913 they had 40,000
acres; and a few years ago the
first farmer, seeking relief from
the drouths and hot winds that
ruined his crops three years
out of five, started peanut grow-
ing there by planting five
acres. There can be no over-
production where the livestock
is grown to consume the yield,
and the crop is more profitable
when marketed on the hoof.
These facte should appeal to
the farmers and the banker
can well afford to finance the
peanut growing hog raiser. In
fact, in some sections of the
state the banks are already fur-
nishing the hogs on pledges
from the farmers to grow the
feed, and taking notes payable
from the proceeds of the first
and second or the second and
third litters. The importance
of the peanut and the hog in
Texas farming and farm profits
has caused the Texas Industrial
congress to include peanuts in
its crop contests this year and
the hog in its livestock classes,
and to offer special prizes to the
farmers who most profitably
combine the two. Every busi-
ness man should interest him-
self to introduce the peanut and
the hog into the farming with-
in his trade territory, and as
many farmers as are qualified
under the rules of the congress
would do well to write and
make application to enter the
contest.
The peanut and the hog offer
an opportunity for financial in-
dependence to many a farmer
who otherwise has little hope
ahead, and prosperity to re-
place the frequent hard times
in our Texas towns. “The world
has no surplus food supply,”
said Colonel Exall, “and one
half the people lie down hun-
gry every night.” If the farm-
ers of Texas should devote just
a part of their farming to pea-
nut growing and hog raising
there would be no liklihood of
over-production, and the result,
in adding to their own prosper-
ity, would be literally to add
millions to the credit side of
the profit and loss account of
the total business interests of
Texas.
Weather Report.
Co-operative observers’ me-
teorological record for the
month of August, at Mercedes.
THE CABBAGE OUTLOOK
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Prediction of the Rio Grande
& Coast Association...
Date
Maximum
Temperature
Minimum
Temperature
Precipitation
Character
of day
August 1
97
74
.00
clear
August 2
97
74
.00
clear
August 3
98
75
.00
clear
August 4
101
77
.00
clear
Augustv 5
98
77
.00
clear
August 6
93
70
.00
pcdy
August 7
82
81
.00
cdy
August 8
94
78
.02
pcdy
August 9
94
77
.00
cdy
August 10
95
77
.00
clear
August 11
96
77
.00
clear
August 12
95
77
.00
clear
August 13
95
75
.00
clear
August 14
95
73
.00
clear i
August 15
91
72
.45
pcdy
August 16
94
73
.18
pcdy
August 17
95
74
.00
clear
August 18
94
75
.00
pcdy
August 19
95
76
.00
pcdy
August 20
96
73
.00
pcdy
August 21
95
73
.28
pcdy
August 22
93
74
.00
clear
August 23
94
74
.00
clear
August 24
96
75
.00
clear
August 25
95
76
.00
clear
August 26
98
74
.00
clear
August 27
98
76
.00
clear
August 28
97
78
.00 .
clear
August 29
97
78
.00
clear
August 30
96
76
.00
clear
August 31
98
76
.00
clear
The following letter is of in-
terest to our farmers at this
time:
Harlingen, Tex., Aug. 26.
Dear Sir:
Reports on Wisconsin cab-
bage give the acreage planted
as a regular crop; they have
had plenty of rain all through
their cabbage country during
the latter part of July and
August at about the time it
should do them the most good;
so, we may safely figure them
with a good average crop to go
into storage.
The New York crop is not re-
ported so good, as they had one
severe dry spell, but no bad
conditions lately. Present re-
ports, however, do not indicate
over an average crop to go in-
to storage; therefore, the pros-
pects for the Valley are as good
as usual for a moderate crop
of say 3000 to 3500 acres. You
must remember that one of the
great dangers to either Wiscon-
sin or eastern cabbage is an
early or severe winter.
It does not look at present
as if the Valley would plant
nearly as much cabbage as last
year; most likely not more than
in the fall of 1912, when we had
about 3700 to 3900 acres. My
advice would be to plant your
seed bed for a moderate crop;
then, if later and full reports
show prospects are good, trans-
plant accordingly; if bad, plow
out the seed bed. Also, I would
plant seed at intervals of two
or three weeks and transplant
about the same way, so as to
have my crop going to the mar-
ket throughout the season and
get the average returns. This
year average returns net to the
grower for the whole season
are just over $12.00 per ton,
and any farmer can grow cab-
bage and make money at that
price. Too many of our cabbage
growers, however, plant all
their seed at one time, so that
they may either hit a good,
medium or bad market.
While our reports are as giv-
en, no really reliable report can
be given until October, when
the northern and eastern cab-
bage is nearer maturity. Will
be glad to advise you later, but
this would indicate to you that
at present I consider it would
be well for you to at least plant
some.
Mission will plant much less,
as will McAllen, Pharr and San
Juan, and I do not think San
Benito will plant nearly as
heavily; much more lettuce is
going in; in fact, too much.
Our cabbage seed orders are far
below last year.
Yours very truly,
Rio Grande & Coast Ass’n.r
Lindsey Waters, Sec.
Temperature—Mean maxi-
mum, 95.4; mean minimum,
Acute Indigestion.
“I was annoyed for over a
year by attacks of acute indi-
gestion, followed by constipa-
tion,” writes Mrs. M. J. Gallag-
her, Geneva, N. Y. “I tried
everything that was recom-
mended to me for this com-
plaint but nothing did me much
good until about four months
ago I saw Chamberlain’s Tab-
lets advertised and procured a
bottle of them from our drug-
gist. I soon realized that I had
gotten the right thing for they
helped me at once. Since taking
two bottles of them I can eat
heartily without any bad ef-
fects.” Sold by all dealers.
75.6; mean, 85.5; maximum,
101; minimum, 72; greatest
daily range, 25.
Precipitation — Total, .93
inches; greatest in 24 hours,
.45.
F. F. FRIEND,
Co-operative Observer.
SEEDS
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| Get your Field and Garden
mm
I Seeds from us. New Crop of
5
I Landreth’s Cabbage Seed just
mm '
1 received. White Bermuda On-
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iiot Seed, Big Boston Lettuce,
I and White Bermuda Onion Sets
Everything
New and Fresh.
Rio Grande Grain I Milling
COMPANY
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Austin Maid, 48
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Every Sack Guaranteed.
For the best
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AND
Building Material
SEE
McMURRY
Lumber Co.
Illinois Ave. and Second st. Telephone No. 32
H. F. Renneberg
CONTRACTOR AND
BUILDER
All work Guaranteed
Plans and Specifications furnished
Mercedes, -
Texas
H. J. BIRNSTENGLE
DRAYMAN
Baggage called for and Del red. Freight
and Express Shipments promptly
attended to
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Pianos, Safes and Household Goods
moved with the greatest of care
PHONE 60
Mercedes,
Texas
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Hoyt, L. T. Mercedes Tribune (Mercedes, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 26, Ed. 1 Wednesday, July 29, 1914, newspaper, July 29, 1914; Mercedes, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth634977/m1/3/: accessed June 22, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Dr. Hector P. Garcia Memorial Library.