Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1927-06-21
I'm O UR
VALLEY

And there is something significant
!, back of it.
A representative of large floul
interest told wholesale grocer in
Brownsville the other day that there
Is corn shortage in sight.
That's responsible for the highe,
prices.
Nebraska. which nss had oodles Of
rain during the Spring. hasn't been
soie to plant corn. Acreage down in
most Of the corn growing states.
faet of the matter is. said this
flour man, that the corn acreage is
off one third.
THIS condition in the corn market
may be Of benefit to Valley farmers,
IL they can see il that way.
Can plant and make a crop yet.
OVER IN Ell JARDIN there's a
farmer who knew something about
this corn crop condition in the north
He has some twenty or thirty
acres Of corn which looks like il il
going to do around hundred bush
els to the acre. That's a fine corn
crop condition.
On the subject of corn. the Edin-
burg Review reports the case Of |.
Nj. Bennett, who lives east of Edin-
burg. and who believes that he has
set record for early maturing of
roasting ear crop. Roasting ears, of
course, soon become field corn.
The other day Bennett brought in
some fine ears Of fresh corn which
ne gathered from field OF corn
planted on April 13. The corn
reached the roasting ear stage in ex-
actly two months and seven days.
III other Valley areas can do as
well by planting corn right now.
say. they should have a crop by the
first of September. or just before
the September rains set in. That corn
should be in field condition just be-
fore the northern corn comes on the
market.
Anyhow, it's worth some hurry up
investigating and some quicker
thinking by Valley farmers who may
not have any cotton 70 worry about
just nov.
LOOKS AS If some great bank
would give Congressman John y.
Garner a job.
The representative from this dis
trict seems to have an even better
line on government income than the
secretary of the treasury. Judging
from a dispatch from a Washington
newspaper correspondent, who says:
Friends of Representative John
N. Garner, Texas, are congratulating
him on 'outguessing' Secretary Of
the Treasury Mellon. Months ago
Garner predicted that the treasury
surplus on July | Eext would be
$500. 100000. Mellon predicted il
would be sls3,0OO. 900 Thus Garner
missed the mark by million dol
lars. Mellon missed il b. $4,000 900
Which was considerable victory for
Garner over the man whom some re.
publican newspapers like 10 call the
greatest secretary Of the treasury
since Alexander Hamilton.
THE KANSAS CITY Packer is a
sort Of bible" with the produce
and commission men over the coun-
try.
Which meant. when the Packer
carried full column on its first
page on the recent fruit and veg
etable meeting in Brownsville. that
Brownsville and the Valley received
n great deal Of very good publicity
over the country among interests
that should know about the Lower
Rio Grande Valley.
These vegetable fellows are a
bunch worth knowing.
BY THE WAY. there's another
convention due 20 come 10 Browns
Vile very soon.
It's the Texas Tax Collectors As
scciation.
Collector j. J. Fox Of Cameron
county invited the collectors here on
the occasion Of the meeting in Cor
pus Christi about q year ago.
AT the Corpus Christi meeting
there were something like hun
dred collectors and their wives
There were 252 counties in the
state. several of them not organized.
Consider that there are total of
24s collectors. The coming meeting
should bring at least 200. not in
cluding their wives.
Last year. you know. a lot Of these
same collectors were busy trying 70
hold their jobs through the primary
This In an off year IN elections. and
they should all be ready % 20
The collectors will be here July s.
q and 8.
THE MISSOURI PACIFIC announc-
es "a park and golf course on prop
erty the railroad owns. located be-
tween the passenger station and the
Rio Grande. y
Some OF the tees no doubt will be
right along the river.
It's only q stones throw across the
Rio Grande for a tenth hole.
And golfers likely will insist that
the tenth hole be installed
Someone from outside the Valley
the other day suggested more golf
courses.
The Missouri Pacific apparently
had already considered the sugges-
tion.
And where will one find a golf
course in three minute walk from
business dis;ric: and splendid no
tells.