Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-10-23
FINAL
EDITION
I'm GU r
VALL,EY Y

h'N~A frhihk NtdtN ne mas
ioeked after that tree. Pollerized
Wen that was necessary.
This year the tree bore fruit
again. It's been bearing FOR some
years.
Mr.. Stiles gathered the fruit. He
gathered 400 pounds Of fresh dates,
which he sold for fifty cents a
pound, or 5000 for the yield Of the
tree.
Fifty cents may be too much;
make II twenty cents a pound: on
the same basis an acre Of dates
should yield the owner $4,000 worth
~ fresh dates" Mr.. Stiles goes on
to say.
And Mr.. Stiles, veteran horticul-
urist, thinks il shame 60 plant
ther than fruit producing date
aims in this section.
But IL you must have palms and
ont want dates. plant the native
palm, the Sabal Texsna. Mr stiles
SAYS
A GENTLEMAN up az Laredo Is
anxious to own the largest individual
citrus fruit orchard in the world,
SAYS a news dispatch from that city.
III the figures contained in the
dispatch are correct. the Laredo
l man should visit the Lower Rio
Il Grznde Valley. "The Home Of the
II Grapefruit" for information which
i he needs.
Il For example, he wants TO plant
$4,000 trees on 500 acres. Which
4 would be about $50 trees to the acre.
Here in "The Home Of the Grape
fruit" the orchard owner figures
about 10 trees To the acre. and that's
quite enough.
DOWN HERE in the Lower Rio
Grande Valley we take a grape
xlit off the tree.
We clean il. We color u. We
wrap IL in tissue. We pack K in
nice looking box, with fancy labels
md everything.
And we send II on 10 the consumer
the expectation that since Il
oks so nice il must be good. Ard,
course. we know X is.
Up in Maine potato growers have
en- having competition for the
1ston potato market from way out
Idaho.
The Idaho growers. going after
,uality trade IN the East, took their
potato out of the ground. Cleaned
IL. Polished it, Wrapped IL in ts-
tue paper. And shipped ii on -
Boston in attractive container, TAX
inr that market from the Maine
potato grower.
So an Aroostook county. Maine,
\ grower got an idea from Idaho. lie
washed. polished. tissue-vrapped
and contained his potatoes.
Now he's making il hard for the
Idaho fellow in Boston. says a news
dispatch from Portland, Maine.
MISSION il preparing 70 hold ITS
annual Hidalgo County Fair, rodeo
and Armistice DAY celebration.
The event begins on November 10,
/. and continues for three days.
IL will be the seventh annual fair,
each OF which has proved SO sue
ressful that the fair has become
oefinite institution for Hida!go
county.
II is held under the auspices of
N,sxion Post No. %, of the Arleri-
can Legion.
The fair catalogue has just been
issued. and gives n list Of desirable
. rrizes for every department N the
4 avent.
Il rTFTY-oNE CARLOADS Of grape
ufruit have been loaded for shipment
sror, the Lower Rio Graude Valley
n since the first day OF October.
II The season has barely begun. a
~siting market is taking up Valley
rrsuefruit as fast as II is available.
AZ prices that arc said 70 be
\ ,.rv satisfactory 70 the orchard
K owner.
Care must continue % be observed.
i GOOD. clean desirable fruit ship
nsa 70 the market will mean build
;rr good will for the Valley product
Vbich IL will need when il gets into
real competition with other sections
4 n r. POSTER. writing in his
.oiur,n in the Houston Press. says
shout air mails:
aVbat is our chamber Of COM
i ,e doing 20 promote air mail SER
~;.s 70 Mexico II seems tha. the
.,;g;ral plsn 10 60 via Houston. San
.-sor;o and Laredo has been sban-
s..ed either temporarily or for all
4 -. due 70 obstacles encountered.
a.. trouble T. because OF the high
/ ..,ts or mountains 10 be flown over
Nsxico on the route as frst
| planned. 49,
-. via Corpus Christi, Browns
~ and Tampicc? That would
VIZ - he the safest and most SEN
az" .;r line. Practically all Of i
siorg the coasts Of Texas and
.;.o We suggest that our very
chamber Of commerce officials
r. ,hese words does Mefo endorse
,Linr that has been said In this
e'. n reference 10 Mexican air
r ~ BrownSville a very fine
u 90 !. being developed. A paved
WI s'P',, a. n. Airplsnes are using
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