Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1927-12-27

was enjoyed an q swim IN the gull.
The party arrived at College sta
ton on Sunday 70 attend the short
course which lasted five days, where
the boys had the opportunity TO at
tend lectures and demonstrations
and the Cameron county poultry
judging team won tenth out or 80
entries. Saturday was spent in Hous-
ton where the party had a ride
down the ship channel 70 the san
Jacinto backgrounds. Colonel sam
Houston, General Sam Houston's son,
showed the panty where the skIrm-
iEhes and battle took place, and the
tree where Santa Anna surrendered.
After arriving back IN the city the
party visited other sites Of interest,
arriving home sunday morning.
Poultry work in Cameron county
is divided into divisions; adult and
All club boys. The chief work
among the adults, who poultry
ilocks has been the treatment for
disease and culling out OF the non
layers. Six poultry culling lemon
STATIONS were given IN September
in six different communities with
an attendance Of IT'S people at which
time az hens out Of 376 were eulledi
most modern demonstrations we're
given and nine more farmers culled
their flOcks IS a result Of these
demonstrations and a total OF 446
out Of l545 we're culled.
Keep Citrus Records
Herbert Theme, ~l4-year-old club
boy, culled his flock Of white reg
horns twice, culled his n~cighbors
flock, had ar average production for
the year Of l9l eggs per hen Of a
l00-hen flock and ne made q net
profit OF $5il.25 for the year.
Isaac Corns Of Stuart Place has a
flock Of 800 leghorn hens, from
which he made a net prefit ef
Sll0i.5O for the year. Fre-erick
Rietschle. a ~15-year-old club member
who took over the farm flock, re-
ceived one dollar and twenty-three
cents net an hour for his labor.
II have had a citrus grove owner
in each community to keep records
and let me use his grove as a dem
onstrstion orchard. At these groves
] held q series Of demonstrations cur
ing the year and advised the people
what 20 spray or dust with depend
ing upon the time Of the year. A
total OF $500 worth OF clean citrus
fruit vas produced BY six demon
stration orchards in this county al
a cost Of S559.7O for material. Mex
lean fly situation 1t first caused
a great deal Of confusion in the
county, but now conditions are back
70 normal with the result that the
farmers have cleaned up their or
chards from fallen fruit. At a series
Of citrus meetings held in Septem-
Der. Mr.. Hoidale, federal fruit fly
inspection service supervisor. ex-
planned 10 the growers that they had
TO 90 under the quarantine.
A total Of 4s demonstration meet
ings were held this year, with a
total attendance OF 1895 leople; and
on field day at the experiment
station with an attendance OF 81, 545
letters were written, s24 farm Calls
made, had 81 office calls, I45 tele-
phone calls, lis meetings ATTENDED
which are miscellaneous agricultural
meetings, with an attendance of 540s
people. A total Of 10.00I miles were
travelled during the year doing ex-
tension work. The net profit Of the
club boys projects for the rear was
S5.353.33. total value OF products was
~SlO,sO9.55. More than 20 orchard
owners were helped by demonstra-
tons and literature given out. A
large percentage OF the orchard own
ers are new people in this county
who have never raised citrus before.
and n Is very necessary that they
De given the proper Instructions"