Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-03-22
FINAL
EDITION
i'm OUR
VAL.L.EY

A TRAGEDY up on the highway
home ten miles or 20 out Of Browns
VILE
Not motor accident.
It's a patch of beans, just an acre
or two, perhaps a little more.
Passing motorists have noted for
some weeks two little girls tilline
this bean patch.
Two little girls Of Mexican par
entage. about eleven or twelve
pears old, perhaps 9 little more, each
bonnetted against the sun.
They tended this patch just as
well ais two grown men farmers
might have done. They followed q
plow. They did the necessary hoe
ing.
They pIowed and cultivated fire.
uuently, because irrigation water was
not available.
And this has been sad week for
these two little girls. Jack Frost
visited their field over which they
had labored so hard.
And did destructive work.
Today the little girls are busy
again. Watch them cross a field
each riding q sled, behind mule.
THERE'S A NEW sort Of hedge uT
at McAllen.
Developed by o. P. Archer, formei
mayor, and encloses the lawn of his
residence.
II is an ebony hedge. And thick
and protective one. Planted from
seed just a few years ago and nov
about four feet high and providing
plenty Of work to keep il cut back.
The little trunks are now from
half an inch to an inch thick.
And growing thicker year by year
Merry soon instead OF clippers keep
ing il cut back, II will be necessary
10 use saws.
( And in due course there will b
large trunks, no doubt. But that''
some years Off and isn't worrying
Mr.. Archer as yet.
MERCEDES is stepping forward
most rapidly, judging from the news
from that town.
Recently experienced dairymer
Formed a milk company and plan e
hay and sell milk throughout the
valley. And expect by this means
10 develop the dairying industry in
fhe Valley.
Now others are promoting estab-
1ishment Of a huge poultry farm
about four miles north Of Mercedes
Announce that it is a half million
dollar enterprise,
The Hidalgo County Bank has just
moved into its new banl and office
building.
And the publishers Of the Mer-
kedes Enterprise and the Valley
Farmer are looking forward to ce-
eupying their new two-story news
paper and job printing establish
mcnt.
Each Of these buildings would be
a credit TO any town several times
the size Of Mercedes.
But that's the way things are done
IN the Lower Rio Grande Valley.
THE FARMER in the Lower Rio
Grande Valley is accustomed to pro-
Hucing crops in ninety or a hundred
days. generally speaking.
They wouldn't be at all satisfied
with the lot Of a man who plants
plows, waters and otherwise nour.
5shes the maguey and pulque plants
down in Mexico.
You know, the maEuey produces
seouila and mescal. Pulque, a milky
sort OF drink, popular In the In.
serior and not good for anything that
ais one. comes also rom certain
variety Of cactus.
Anyway, between Mexico City and
Oriraba there are hundreds % ha.
riendss growing nothing but these
drink producing plants.
Seems enough 10 supply drink Il
fhe world. instead Of the compara'
fiveiy limited area Of Mexico.
After which. on inquiry. one finds
that it requires from nine 70 twelve
years 20 bring one plant TO matur'
NV. After the sap is extracted ths
rlant dies. and new one goes into
place.
WANT INSPIRATIONS
Here's a suggestion for a trip or
Sour first Sunday out.
visit Progreso. in the LANE
G-ande lake section. where G. o
Miles and associates are developing
one az the finest and most elab
crate projects yet initiated in The
Lower Rio Grande Valley.
Thousands on thousands Of citru.
fruit trees set out.
The entire section laid off N
small tracts, under three year
or maturity-maintena plan.
Road construction is under way
throughout the tract, which former
lv was known as the Llano Grand'
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