Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-07-19
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EDITION
I'm OUR
VALLEY

SOME WEEKS AGO this column
suggested that grocers and vegetable
markets in the Valley give consid-
GRAFTON to sale Of Valleygrowp po-
tatoes in preference to potatoes
from other sections of the country.
Thursday the following letter.
from a storage concern in the VAL
ley, again touches of that subject:
"Our attention has just been call
ed to the fact that a number of mer-
chants in the Valley are now OF
fering shipped-in potatoes to their
trade.
"We understand that you had an
article on this matter some time
back, and which we think was very
timely and today a number OF
growers from your district who have
Valley-grown potatoes stored here
with US were here and suggested
that we again call your attention
TO this condition.
"AS A MATTER of local or civic
pride the merchants Of this Valley
should offer and give preference to
Valley-grown products.
These potatoes are in first-class
condition, and there should be a
local market for them. Should you
find it consistent to again call the
attention Of the public TO this con-
diticn I am sure it would be appre-
ciated by both the growers and the
residents"
The Valley consumer, spurred on
by habit, goes into a grocery or
market and demands white potatoes.
Probably If the average customer
was asked why he selects white po-
tatoes in preference to reds, he
would have no answer.
Certainly there is no difference
in flavor. One boils as well as an
other, so long as the water is hot.
A POTATO may have to have GER
tain qualifications to become a
baked spud, but for frying, for boil
ing. for MASKING and for other pur-
poses, the red potato, mighty good
Brownsville cook says, is as good as
the white potato.
All right then, why not help the
Valley grower?
Why rot buy the red potato in
stead Of the white potato.
II the grocer offers you white
potatoes instead Of reds, ask him
what about reds.
He will sell you reds IL you want
them. If he doesn't happen to have
them, and you want them. he will
have them for you on your next
buying visit.
THE VALLEY IS giving more at
lention to the question Of drainage.
Everywhere drainage construction
Is under way, or plans are afoot TO
set it under way.
The lesson OF the necessity of
drainage really was taught more
than twenty-five years ago. When
the rice industry. on land located
from four TO ten miles from Browns
willie. failed.
The first year the rice produced
wonderfully well. The second yer
IL was not 50 good The third year
il was a complete loss.
The growers put water on land
and let il stay there. With the
result that the land became water
logged and useless.
Much Of ii has been reclaimed.
The latest reclamation Job on this
land is being undertaken on a thou
sand-Rcre tract.
II was rice land twenty-five years
ago. It will be tile drained. And
after the soil has been cleared of
its poisons. which will be in short
time, IL will be set out to orchards
and crops.
Valley land is too valuable per-
NIT il to lay idle any longer.
TWO FUNERAL TRAINS bear
the bodies of heroes of Mexico.
one is enroute from New York
City to Laredo and Mexico City
with the body OF Captain Emilio
Carranza, air crash victim. and Mex
ieo's Lindbergh of the air.
The other is enroute from Mexico
City to a village in the state Of
Sonora, bearing all that remains Of
General Alvaro Obregon, revolu-
tionary hero, one time president and
at the time Of his death president
elect Of Mexico.
II is a sad time for the ~eople Of
Mexico.
II THE MERCEDES d; itrict they
are urging farmers to water their
cotton, and to poison il literally.
Declare that those farmers who
aer doing so stand an excellent
chance to make a good crop.
with indications Of an unusually
good stop crop"
ARMY AvIATORS, after blazing
trails for two air mail routes from
washington to Panama and the
northern and eastern shores Of
South America, have come TO one
conclusion:
That the Caribbean sea offers too
many flying dangers, and that ths
land route via Brownsville and
Matamoros is the safer. Although
,be Caribbean route is shorter.
While contracts awarded indicate
that the San Antonio and Laredo
ropte will be used for the New
york-Mexico City mails, the Browns
vile route continues to stand an
hat chance for selection for