Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1912-12-30
DEFINITE MOVE FOR
EXPERIMENT STATION
PLANS AFOOT TO SECURE STATE
TO MEET GOVERNMENT APPRO-
PRIATION FOR SUGAR EXPERI-
MENTS HERE
FORMULATED AND
SENT TO AGRICULTURAL SOCIE-
TIES IN STATE FOR ADOPTION,
FAVORING PROJJECT.

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cure the aid of the state, through the leg
islature which meets next month. in the
proposed establishment of a state exper-
iment station i'll the Fort Brown reserva-
ton in this city. The Rio Grande Sugar
Cane Growers Association has prepared
and mailed to every agricultural associa-
h ton i'll the state set of resolutions call
ing attention to the need of an expert
ment station in the city, and asking an
annual appropriation of $4,000 for the
organization, operation and improve
ments necessary for the proposed state
experiment in the Fort Brown rese1va-
ton. The associations are asked to sign
the resolutions and send them to b..
YOungbloOd, director of Texas expert
ment station at College Station. by
whom they will be properly disposed of
for the attention of the legislature
GOVERNMENT APPROPRIATION READY.
to the fact that it is the fixed policy of
the United States department of agricul-
ture not to undertake the solution of To-
cal problems, but to render to state eX-
pertinent stations, through cooperation,
such assistance as may be advisable. On
July 1 of this year there became avail
able an appropriation of $1,000 year,l
by the government, for the specific pur-
pose of cooperating with the state of
Texas in the solution of sugar cane
in ha Nnllau
However, the state has no experiment
station in this section, and the sum is
being applied to the problem, the resolu-
tions say, only in general way.
The department of agriculture has
manifested its interest in the proposed
station by assuring Director B. Young
blood of the Texas experiment stations
that it is not only willing to let the state
take the lead in the investigational work
in the Rio Grande Valley. but also
stands ready to recommend to Congress
that the Fort Brown property, with the
exception of a portion of the parade
ground facing the city, be decided by the
government to the state of Texas for the
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perimental station to be conducted by
and through the assistance of the state.
COMMITTEE TO VISIT BROWNSVILLE
The resolutions ask the Texas Legisla-
ture to appoint a committee to visit
Brownsville and inspect the property
known as the Fort Brown reservation
and report back to the Legislature on
the advisability of an annual appro-
priation of $4,000 for the conduct of the
station.
In a report just issued of Needed Ap-
preparation for the Texas Agricultural
Experiment Stations" Director g.
YoungblOOd says. with reference to the
proposed Brownsville station:
"TeXas grows annually thousands Of
acres of sugar cane and with the devel
opment of new agricultural lands in the
coast country this crop has become one
of great Importance. The federal del
partment of agriculture has abandoned
its plant introduction garden at Fort
Brown. and recommends that this land.
including buildings, greenhouses and
equipment, valued at over 100000, be
given over to the state of Texas. prOvid-
ed necessary sum be appropriated by
the state Legislature to support an ex-
pertinent station at that place for sugar
tions. To properly establish this work
the sum of $4,000 was recommended as
being necessary by the committee from
the various organizations enumerated in
another part of this pamphlet In
case this session of the state Legislature
does not make an appropriation for the
establishment of station at this point
this land will revert to the department
Iof the interior. and will be sold. There
fore, the present opportunity is one tha
will not present itself again perhaps il
the history of Texas
STATE SHOULD HAVE RESERVATION.
According to an officer of the ri,
Grande Sugar Cane Growers Associa
Ition. the people Of the valley. all of whom
are equally interested in the propose,
station at Fort Brown, can aid material
lly in bringing the matter to the atter
ton of the Legislature by writing an
friends they may have in the Legislator
of the great need of the station here. Th
government fully intends to dispose q
the Fort Brown reservation, and it
promised that it will do so if the mex
LEGISLATURE does not avail itself of tn
opportunity to secure the 800 acres Q