Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1925-10-04
VALLEYCOTTON
OUTPUT OF '25
les,i76 BALES
Government Report On
Total, to be Printed
Soon, Expected to
Show Same Figure

Total number of bales of cotton GIN
ned in the Lower Rio Grande Valley up
to and including September 80, wab
l09,676, figures compiled b. H. F. Boyd,
president of the Valley Gin Co.,
with San Bento offices, show.
Figures which will be compiled by the
United States Department of agricul-
ture about October 8, and, which will be
released about October IS or 20, will
show Substantially the same ginnings.
This total is considered as approxi-
mately the total for the season, as itsis
not likely that the remaining ginnings
will be sufficient to move the total
more than a hundred bales or so.
I've are Of the opinion that this viii
almost conclude our season in the Val
ley as the con ntinued rains have been
very detrimental to the prospect of a
top crop and unless there is some ma
terial change for the better we doubt
the total reaching above 10000 for the
entire year." wa the report from the
Valley Gin CO.
San Benito leads the entire Valley
in total ginnings with Harlingen sec
ond and Mission third.
With respect to acres planted, Cam
eron county shows better yield per
acre than any of the other, the report
which is accounted for by certain early
rains that Hidalgo and Starr did not
receive. Cameron county's production
was 28 ,O89, for 1923 and 31,71l total for
1924, as against present ginnings as Of
September 80, of 43,962 in 1926
Hidalgo county total glnnings for
1928 were 52,896 and for 1924 49,931 as
against 1894 as of September 80, this
year.
Willacy county's ginnings for 1928
were 6064 bales, and in 1924 the gin
nings there dropped to 1923, while the
total up to September 80, this year, is
9095 bales.
Starr county ginned 3464 bales of cot
ton in 1923, 1906 bak4 in 1924, and
2675 bales in 1925, eptember 80.
For the entire Val1ey, the total gin
nings for 1928 were 90,513 bales; for
1924, 81 ,370; and for 1925, to September
80, 1O9,676.
!. These figures for 1925 are gathered
according to our best information, and
are not guaranteed to be correct, but
we believe they are close to figures that
will be published or rather compiled by
the government on October 8, covering
ginnings up to and including September
30. This government information prob
ably will not be published before Oc-
tober Is or 20.
Total cotton output in the Valley was
cut down some account of the heavy
rainfall which started early in Septem-
ber and continued throughout the
month, it was stated. Several thousand
bales would probably have been ginned
in Cameron county had not the rain
prevented picking, and caused the cot
ton in the fields to become ruined.
Ginnings by counties and cities in the
Valley are as follows.
Cameron county: Brownsville, 6051; !;
San Benito, 1897; iRo Hondo, 1928;
Harlingen, 1869; La Feria, 2194; Ran
gerville, 22SO; Combs, 212O; Santa
Maria, 1875; Barreda, 818; Olmito, 1890.
| Total for Cameron county, 43,962.
Willacy county: Raymondville, 4379;
Sebastian, 2000; Lyford, 1921; Turner
Tract, S95. Total for Willacy county,
9095.
Willacy county: Mercedes, 4796;
Weslaco, 6675; Donna, 1868; Alamo,
517S; San Juan, 2943; Pharr, 1913; Edin-
burg, 1895; McAllen, 5159; Mission,
1910; Sam .Fordyce, 853; West Tract,
1000; Adams Tract, 1910; Los Indios,
684. Total for Hidalgo county, 53,944.
Starr county iRo Grande City, 342;
Starr, 1862; La Reforma Ranch, 646;
Roma, 635. Total for Starr county,
2675.
Grand Total, 109,676.