Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-02-16
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inE BRANCH experiment station
OF Texas Experiment station, Col
iege station, has been located be-
tween Mercedes and Weslaco for
some three years.
H mas been quietly pursuing its
experiments, under the direction Of
w. d. Friend, agent in charge.
Inc time is arriving when it will
negin giving the people of the Valley
tne benefit Of its experiments with
Valley crops.
The first concrete results shortly
VIII be available to .,aders Of The
Herald.
This will be IN the form of . paper
the care Of the citrus fruit or
iards. The article, signed by
lend, n. L. Alsmeyer, county agent
or Cameron county, and w. H. Kirk
atrick, county agent for Hidalgo
county, will give complete informa-
tion on how to care for the orchard
every month in the year.
This article will appear in The
Herald Sunday.
GOVERNOR PORTES GIL, chief
executive of the state Of Tamaulipss,
comes forward with a magnificent
gesture relative TO the coastal air
mail route.
Governor Gill advises Mexico City
he will see to il that the state OF
Tamaulipas will contribute to the air
mail route il it is carried via Tam
pico, Victoria and Matamoros.
He wants the mail to pass over
Victoria, capital of Tamaulipas.
In the meantime Washington is re-
ported standing firm for the route
via Brownsville.
Wants to start a service from New
York TO Washington. Then TO At
lanta, New Orleans, Houston
Brownsville and Mexico City.
Brownsville will vote March on a
bond issue of 100000 for establish
ment of an air port.
Most of this money will 90 for
land that will be available for agri-
cultural purposes.
VIRTUALLY every incorporated
town in the Valley now has adopted
the federal standard milk ordinance
This announcement is made by DR.,
Ernest Prothro, in cha/e Of the
Cameron county health unit.
Means better and safer milk fol
the consumers of the Valley.
Means they may now rest assured
L. Il he.
ing insisted upon to purify the milk
supply.
Milk easily becomes contaminated
Which is why such precautions are
found necessary.
There was a time in the Valley
when not much attention was given
to these matters. But times are
changing in the Valley. Population
growing. Communities are now
strong enough to do things they did
not think possible some years ago.
Pure milk helps to grow stronger
healthier children. To give them q
fair chance in the fight for exist
ence.
A BILL has been introduced in the
house at Washington by Representa-
tive Wurzbach.
1t provides for an increase of two
cents a pound in the tariff on for
eign onions coming into the United
States.
The bill asks for q three-cent
tariff.
rx..,. - ;-ora..a o@ 60 4, hur
dred. bringing the figure 70 So a
hundred.
Perhaps that will help the Bermuds
onion deal In the Laredo section
and in the Lower Rio Grande VAL
ley onion districts.
Next possibly will come an increase
in the tariff on tomatoes and or
beans. and possibly on other items.
All of which will not hurt the feel
ings of the growers in the least
little bit.
Assuming, Of course, that the
tariff will go through as requested.
EVERY TYPE of citrus fruit must
come off the trees before the first
Gay Ol
This edict has been issued as part
Of the requirement of the fruit
quarantine.
But it does not stop shipments Of
citrus fruit.
Shipments may be continued, pro-
vided the fruit is kept under a
screen. 1t must be protected from
any possible infestation.
The Valley is making good record
in connection with this quarantine.
II the record continues satisfac-
tory, perhaps the quarantine will be
raised.
However, the Valley has not Jared
badly as a result of the quarantine
II was merely a matter of becom-
ing accustomed to the regulationI
and carrying them out.
THE NEW Manautou building.
Twelfth and Washington streets,
brownsville, is undoubtedly the mos;
imposing structure yet erected any
where in South Texas for purely re-
tail purposes
For one thing. il is fireproof. All
concrete construction.
For another, it has some two hun
dred feet Of windows for displaying
merchandise, the window arran ge-
ment including a handsome arcade at
= the front of the building.
And its second floor is marvellous.
brownsville may well be proud OF
This new structure.
PRODUCERS may fix the prices
IN their products, if they wish to dc
SO, in concert.
At the other end it would be
ouite different. At the other end il
h.comes q violation Of the Sherman