Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1926-01-18
IN OUR
VALLEY

= potatoes are being placed in the
ground in the potato district surround
ing Brownsville. and between Browns
willie and San Benito.
Last spring this area shipped about
1900 carloads of potatoes. That crop
was planted after the cold weather of
the late days of December, 1924.
Weather is again favorable follow
ing q severe spell
Seed potatoes came high for this sea-
sons planting. Colorado lost large
part of its fall crop. So did Minnesota.
The potato crop this year, weather
. permitting, should come through as one
of the best from marketing stand
point.
And since last season the Rio Grande
Potato Growers Association has been
organized for cooperative marketing
purposes, capital stock $1,000. The de-
cision to organize came following un-
satisfactory marketing conditions last
year. And this "tight" little organi-
zation's activities will be watched with
interest, as upon its success, farmers
say, depends whether other vegetable
units will be formed.
Seed men over the Valley are adver-
tising fine corn seed for roasting ear
crops.
Rio Grande Delta roasting ears, which
begin to reach the marekt early in
May, are enjoying a ready market in
the north and east Especially, it is
understood, does New York City ask
for them.
There is no gamble on the product
since the corn can be allowed to mature
for the dry corn market.
But the suggestion has been made
that more attention should be given to
sweet corn varieties. They are more
desirable to the northern big city no.
tells.
The farmer who has good cabbage
crop ready for the market in these
days, is receiving a worthwhile return,
judging from newspaper reports from
over the Valley.
Forty dollars ton is being paid for
cabbage. II the price continues and
the yield is normal. or about six tons
to the acre. return of s24O to the acre
is not so bad.
Especially does $40 look mighty good
when one recalls that the major por-
tion of last years crop went at from
So to $40 a ton, mostly Sc, and more
than three thousand carloads were turn
ed under because the growers felt the
return was not enough to pay for the
labor of cutting, loading and hauling.
Heavy country roads this season have
cost some farmers heavily. They were
unable to haul their crops to the rail
road loading points. Conditions are
now better, and the daily shipments re
fleet the fact.
A Harlingen man advertised for
wife
He married within twenty-four hours
after the notice appeared in The Har-
lingen Star.
The Star announces there were sew
eral other applications.
Also, there are a large number of
bachelors scattered over the Valley.
Some of them are farmers very great
1y in need Of helpmeets.
A hint to the wise should be suffi-
cient.
Here is another interesting item from
The Star:
Rio Deltas' is a new variety of
chickens claimed by Mrs. Guy NJ. Snave-
1y, being white fowl with black lac
ings, black wings and tail, and said to
have sprung from a pen Of purebred
buff orpingtons.
"Mrs. Snavely says that the Deltas
do not resemble the parent birds and
that opinions from poultry experts are
that they are entirely new variety of
chickens. A strange thing is that eggs
from the original Delta hen matches
nothing but roosters, and that it is nee
essary to cross the Delta roosters with
buff orpington hens to produce Delta
puliets.
"A number Of people have called at
the Snavely farm, three miles north of
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