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

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VAL.L.EY

HERE IS an advertisement fol
Valley lemons.
They contain more. Juice per
lemon than those grown in other
localities.
They are superior in flavor.
The fact that they are dark green
in color does not mean they are not
matured.
Valley lemons can be bought for
SCOUT half the price Of imported
lemons and there is an abundant
supply.
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
reason.
Storekeepers display the Valley
lemon, large but green in color, and
the imported product, small and
yellow side by side.
Imported lemons at 28 cents per
dozen (about) 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
ture's own product.
Buy Valley lemons once and you
will buy them q second time.
THE MISSOURI PACIFIC LINES
intend to see that railroad ticket
agents throughout the country are
acquainted with the Lower Rio
Grande Valley.
a solid trainload-250 OF them
are to be brought to this section in
October for a first hand inspec-
tion.
This win 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 ev-
erything possible TO see that these
men receive nothing but favorable
impressions.
The ticket agents will be from
points in the North and East.
Here many of them will discover
6Wlew vacation land.
fAfter their return home they will
be In q 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 sugges.
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 to see that all the
agents are supplied with literature
calculated to support them in thei;
efforts on behalf Of the Valley.
UP AT ST. Louis a firm Is
manufacturing a machine they say
is a cotton picker.
Possibly so. but most cotton farm
ers will want proof before they be-
lieve it.
There have been cotton pickers
and cotton pickers for the past
quarter Of q century-and possibly
longer-but the old hand method ci
gathering the crop continues in
favor.
More than likely someone some
day will perfect a machine to do
the work which only men have been
able to do in the past. but quite q
bit of proving will be required BY
cotton growers. They have seen
and heard OF cotton picking ma
chimes before. but they never have
seen one that would work.
Us st. Louis machine-or rather
a photograph of it-indicateS it is
simple in construction and light in
wesgitt, two important things which
none of its predecessors have been
The manufacturers claim il will
Rrther 10 per cent more cotton than
the best hand pickers and that ii
will pick cleaner cotton. thereby in
creasing the price received by the
grower.
II these claims can be upheld a
mart of the Valleys 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
pickers, the cabbage cutters and
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
many field hands for many yea S
70 come.
ORDER LOCOMOTIVES
NE WYORK, Aug. 9--tF1-Ths