Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1926-02-10
IN OUR
VALLEY

- Agriculture summary Of The Agrl-
cultural Outlook for 1926" has several
paragraphs of particular interest to
growers in the Rio .Grande Delta. They
follow:
Cotton-The demand for the 1926
crop of cotton probably will not be
sufficient to absorb a crop as large IS
that of 1925 except at reduced prices.
Costs of production will probably be
about the same as in 1925 and growers
would do well to proceed with care
when planning their acreages for the
present year.
"For the past two seasons the rate
of world production of cotton has ex-
ceeded the rate of world consumption
with the result that stocks have been
increased. Although these stocks are
not yet burdensome as a whole, further
material increases might easily make
them so.
The conditions under which the new
crop will be marketed are somewhat
uncertain but there is marked indi-
cation that the mill demand will exceed
that of the present season.
Potatoes-Growers of very early
potatoes who can market their product
by the first week of June have an un-
usual opportunity this season, but
there is danger that growers in the
larger potato states may be influenced
by presentp rices and plant too heav-
lily. An increase of 10 percent in acre
age with normal yields is about the
limit that would prove profitable. Seed
is now so high that those who expect
to plant large acreage should keep
close watch on the acreage being plant
ed elsewhere.
Encouraging comment, that, for grow
ers in the Delta potato district. The
local crop will begin to go on the
market in April, and should be cleaned
up well ahead Of June /.
Citrus Fruits-Barring freezes a very
material increase in production of cit
rus fruit is to be expected from trees
already planted and further planting
should not be made without serious
consideration. In Florida only about
5s percent of the orange trees and
about 78 percent Of the grapefruit trees
have yet reached the bearing age and
not much over half Of the bearing trees
have reached full production. Heavy
paintings of grapefruit trees have re-
Gently been made in Texas. Paintings
of oranges in California are about suf-
ficient to maintain the present acre
age"
Since our grapefruit is finding a
mn nj ne -
quality, it is probable that the sugges-
tion that planting be held down will
not be followed here. But for the un-
usual weather of the winter now end
ing, Delta grapefruit would have great
ly enlarged its market this year.
Truck Crops-Production of truck
crops has increased faster than con-
sumptive demand. However, the in
creased production is evidence of prof
ltable returns at least in favorably sit
uated sections and for certain crops.
Additional acreage should be added
only after a careful study of accessible
markets."
"Cabbage-Producers of early cab
bage should be in favorable market po-
sition. at least during the opening
months of the season. There is dan
ger that present high prices will induce
growers in the late cabbage states to
increase their acreage.
Onions-The total acreage Of onions
in late states cannot be increased ap-
preciably without the probability of a
crop too large to be marketed at salts
factory prices. Acreage in Indiana and
Ohio was sharply cut last year by
freezing. If growers in these two states
plant the same acreage this year as
they did originally in 1925 and if those
in other producing states do likewise.
the total production will be about
percent above that of 1922, a year of
extremely low prices"
Excerpt from a personal sketch of
a Valley banker in the Rio Grande Val
ley Business Digest: "The wilds we're
calling him, and he pitched his tent
among the jungles, where the Mexican
lions roared, the spotted leopards leap
in their mad rush; where the fierce
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