Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1926-12-06
I'm OUR
VALLEY

1iesoh UeaSn project seems TO De
Penetrating the st. Louis section.
Judging from an editorial appearing
in the st. Louis Globe Democrat, a
copy Of which has reached the San
I6enito Light
The editorial follows:
A HARD ROAD NATURE BUILT
Nature constructed for Texas a
hard-surfaced highway so perfect for
traffic that about all man had to do
was to perceive what it seemed TO be
intended for and put it into use.
A familiar feature OF the Gulf of
Mexico are the islands that form
breakwaters at many places along
its coastline. In the very westerly
portion of the body of water. this
formation reaches elimination in
Padre Island. a spit of land hardly
more than three miles wide in most
Of its extent. but stretching one
hundred and thirty miles all the way
from the vicinity of Corpus Christi
down to the vicinity of Brownsville,
curving as the coast curves. It has
a very wide beach stretching from
the waters edge in places back TO
the ridge that forms the backbone
of the island. The sand to this
beach-the island is almost all sand
us as hard and firm as if it had
been steam-rollered and by a happy
.hought it is to be added to the Tex
as system of state roads. nature
being improved on at few spots
where it needs improving and bridges
.r causeways built at convenient
Yplaces across the shallow sound to
the mainland. A storm of the Pro-
portions of that at the time of the
Galveston flood might make the
driveway too moist for comfort. but
IL will afford all the tourist could
(desire in normal years and it is pro-
posed~ne of these days to build
khigh-water-mark road along the
ridge.
Hard roads averaging twenty-five
Thousand dollars or more a mile in
cost, the value Texas gets in this
one hundred and thirty-mile stretch
found ready at hand may easily be
computed. And il is not any ordinary
hard-surfaced highway. but super
highway. with room for ten or twelve
motor cars to drive abreast. So it
is said.
THERE is diversification in the
planting Of vegetables, take il from
|the Mercedes Tribune which COM
piles list cf vegetables seen on a
loading - platform there, received
rom farmers in the Mercedes Wes-
AGO district.
Here are %. and just look at how
various they are:
One variety of turnips: Of mus
ard: of cabbage; of squash:
nbf carrots: / of beets; of shallots !:
III Of fennel, ! of lettuce; l Of Eng
lish peas: ] peppers; of eggplant:
" Of parsley: ] spinach: l chicory;
2 broccolo: | lima beans; string
beans; l radish.
After outlining which. the Mer-
cedes Tribune goes on to give some
other interesting and enlightening
information on the subject Of veg
SOME VEGETABLES named in the
above list we wager are unknown to
but n conservative few residents Of
ythe Valley. and we serve notice now
on Brother Stein of the Brownsville
| Herald that we will not undertake 10
! educate him further in vegetable
lnra Haytpur hrauuht - 49,,
tion the fact that there does exist
J such n vegetable as an oyster plant
we feel that we have done our duty.
WE WILL STATE, however. for
the benefit of Stein and others who
saw fit to give our shipments Of
dandelion greens the very hearty
laugh last season. that the shipments
of this luscious commodity proved
very successful last year. and there
are now growing near Mercedes sew
eral frields which will be ready for
shipment north within the next 60
days.
FOR THE FURTHER benefit of
Stein and others who perhaps may
not be aware that there were that
many radishes in the world. we
herewith impart ehat startling in
formation that there was sent out
last week by Richman & Samuels a
shipment composed of S06.400 rad
ishes, all in one consignment to ono
firm. The radishes were punched l2
to n bunch, 90 punches to the bas-
ket and 200 baskets to the car. They
went to New York city. and what
New York will do with s06,400 rad
ishes we refuse to surmise, further
than to remark that if we lived in
New York and had to eat our pro
rata of the shipment. the radishes
would be a total loss to retailer, job
Der, shipper and grower.
DID YOU KNOW that there was a
smooth leaf parsley? The only pars-
ley with which we claim to be on
fairly familiar terms is the krinkly
stuff that we push out the way of
omelettes and such when invited to
dine at restaurants. The smooth leaf
variety is used for flavoring soups
and the like. The tops cut two or
three times during the season, and
after the third cutting the root has
httained an appearance very much
like that of the long rooted, slim
Chatenay carrot. And the root has a
market value in New York and other
arge Jewish centers, where it is
eagerly sought by the Jews during
None of the holiday periods.