Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-08-09

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HERE Is an advertisement for
Valley lemons.
They contain more juice per
I lemon than those grown in other
localities.
They are superior m flavor.
The fact that they are dark green
IN color does not mean they are not
stured.
sSYslley lemons can be bought for
about half the price of imported
4 lemons and there is an abundant
fbupply.
Buy Valley lemons.
There Is a reason for the above.
Valley housewives are buying i'm
ported lemons at almost double the
price of the home product.
And the color is the only possible
4 reason.
Storekeepers display the Valley
lemon, large but green in color, ana
n the imported product, small and
yellow side by side.
Imported lemons at % cents per
dozen (abouD sell more than twice
as fast as Valley lemons at Is cents.
Imported lemons acquire their
pretty yellow color by artificial
methods. Valley lemons are Ma
lures own product.
Buy Valley lemons once and you
|xill buy them a second time.
THE MISSOURI PACIFIC LINES
intend to see that railroad ticket
agents throughout the country are
y acquainted with the Lower Rio
] Grande Valley.
A solid trainload-250 OF them
are TO be brought to this section in
October for q first hand inspec-
tion.
This will be an important event
for the Valley, and although the
railroad has arranged the enter
tainment and will be host to the
party, Valley citizens should do ey-
erything possible TO see that these
men receive nothing but favorable
SPF'''i0n''
The ticket agents will be from
points in the North and East.
Here many of them will discover
O new vacation land.
After their return home they will
!, be in a position TO speak with
authority concerning this section 20
prospective tourists who are in
search Of pastures new"
And when asked for suggestions
they more than likely will suggest
the Lower Rio Grande Valley. Ticket
agents dearly love to sell tickets for
long trips and a trip to the Valley
will be quite long from most Of the
places these agents will represent.
The Missouri Pacific can be de-
pended upon 10 see that all the
agents are supplied with literature
calculated to support them in theis
efforts on behalf Of the Valley.
UP AT ST. LOUIS a firm Is
manufacturing a machine they say
is q cotton picker.
Possibly so. but most cotton farm
ers will want proof before they be-
lieve 1t.
There have been cotton pickers
and cotton pickers for the past
quarter Of a century-and possibly
ionger-but the old hand method OF
gathering the crop continues in
favor.
More than likely someone some
day will perfect a machine 10 do
the Wcrk which only men have been
ableyio do in the past. but quite
bit OF proving will be required by
cotton growers. They have seen
asd heard of cotton picking ma
caines before, but they never have
seen one that would work.
This st. Louis machine-or rather
n photograph Of it-indicates it is
simple in construction and light in
weight. two important things which
none of its predecessors have been.
The manufacturers claim it will
gather 10 per cent more cotton thaa
the best hand pickers and that it
will pick cleaner cotton, thereby in
creasing the price received by the
grower.
II these claims can be upheld q
part Of the valley's labor problem
is solved. No longer Will there be
the necessity Of importing large
numbers of workers at cotton pick
ing time.
But there still remains the bean
uickers, the cabbage cutters an6
various other types Of workers in
the vegetable fields. to say nothing
Of citrus fruit pickers.
This Is the machine age - al
though Henry Ford disagrees-but
the Valley is going TO find labor for
ruafy field hands for many yeas
TO Nme.