Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1927-10-24
i'm OUR
VALsL,EY
A LUBBOCK NEWSPAPER reach
e. this Sesk sveyv dav

es this desk every day.
Not many Of our people here in
the Valley know about Lubbock.
It's a very fine town of 5000 or
10000 population, way up in the
Panhandle. Best known. perhaps
Neurological College.
Issue Of the Lubbock paper arriv-
ing today reflects optimism. It's on
account Of the fact that the cotton
crop is beginning TO rumble into
towns in great wagons, headed for
cumming gins.
They're just getting in their COT
ton crop up at Lubbock. While down
here we've ginned our crop, prob
ably got all the money out Of u
that we're going to get, have for
gotten IL and are looking forward 70
the opening of the citrus fruit and
winter vegetable season.
Texas is a great state. Someone
ages ago said il was state o.
magnificent distances. So It's.
MORE THAN A hunnred ltlilties
commissioners from over the United
States have returned TO their homes
voicing the praises Of the Lower Rio
Grande Valley.
They enjoyed the sights, the peo-
pie. More especially were they i'm
pressad with the cordiality of en-
tertainment.
Never, many Of them said, IN
their convention experiences, have
they been so cordially entertained
as here in the Valley.
This business of supplying and
driving automobiles for parties of
visitors may sometimes be incon-
venient, and always is more or less
expensive.
But, at the same time, il is bring
ing dividends to the Valley. II Is
another method by which sil Of US
nay participate in the work OF adj
ertising the Valley.
There are other conventions and
meetings coming. Wen have to treat
all the same. Let 'em go home with
n pleasant taste, a pleasant feeling
That'lI bring them back sooner or
later.
HERE'S A LETTER from John y.
Merrill, Brownsville, or this ques-
tion of increasing the yield Of po-
tatoes:
with reference to your commen;
about raising the quantity per acre
yield of potatoes, attention IS called
"a an extract from a Pennsylvania
elipping. There they have so-called
4of-Bushel Potato Club. The yield
on the farm of one Isaiah S. Anders'
Worcester township, was 434.S bush
eIs On n measured acre. On eight
acres, all planted with certified seed
40 bushels to the acre, and also
thousand pounds Of fertilizer; the
vines were sprayed twelve times dur
inc the summer. The Forman Bros
Of Souderton produced 5s4.4 bushels
on a measured acre. They too, used
thirty bushels Of certified seed 10
the acre and sprayed the vines
twelve times. In their field 1900
nopnds of 3-lO-6 fertilizer was ap-
plied in the row. The field was har-
vowed three times, weeded four times,
and cltivated three times"
Do Valley growers Of potatoes de-
nend too much upon the fertility and
not enough on their own labor and
ingenuity!
THE CALENDAR in November prom
;.r. busy times FOR the Lower Rio
Grande Valley.
Highway traffic is certain 10 be
snmuned and jammed more
In the early part of the month
the 7th and sth-the lntra-Coastal
Canal Association will meet. Bus
s,ess sessions at Harlingen and
Erownsville. Visits up and down the
valley and to Point Isabel.
On the 18th. 14th and 18th, the
Sovth Texas Chamber Of Commerce
w;lI gather in Brownsville in first
annual convention. Promises big
! things.
ON the 1ith-Armistice Day-The
Hidalgo County Fair opens at Mis-
sicn.
The Texas Editorial Association
,ests AZ McAllen during the Mid
w;rter Fair at Harlingen.
The Mid-Winter Fair itself vii
open on Thanksgiving Day, afford
Ing q whole weeks entertainment
and possibly more
Ia 70 BE big month in the VAL
- Hotels, cafes and all others
-sr,;rr rooms or meals should pre-
pare for them.