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Newspaper
Shiner Gazette
Location
Shiner, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 02, 1908
Page
3
Cost of keeping a cow runs about 35 dollars yearly and dairying offers strong profits. A well managed dairy produces better fertilizer than other farming, with cows averaging 300 pounds of butter a year. Prices for dairy products have risen with butter retailing around 35 cents and wholesale about 30 cents.
A promotional piece extols Southwest Texas as ideal for homeseekers with mild climate Gulf breezes fertile lands and ready markets. It notes soil diversity high yields versus cheap prices and explains large cattle ranches hinder subdivision while some regions offer sale of pasture tracts to homeseekers.
The piece describes rapid land conversion in Texas with speculators selling pastures for farming. It highlights crops and profits from onions to rice, oranges in Victoria, and a surge in Angora goats. It notes mohair yields, Texas ties to national figures, and appeals for goat industry protection ahead of the 1908 inauguration.
Texas sends a curious token to Secretary Taft a pair of mohair trousers grown from an Angora billy used to highlight Texan industry Colonel Cecil Lyon presents the garment to the Republican nominee Frank Landrum of Montell bred Admiral Togo the three year old sire of the fabric is noted for prize winning lineage and Angora breeding fame
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