Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-03-31
PREDICT BIG =
/ COTTON CROP
Acreage Planted To Staple
" Will Exceed Amy For
sns mer Year.

The Lower Rio Grande Valley
will establish a new record In cot
ton production this year If weather
conditions remain favorable. Is the
prediction Of cotton men who have
made a survey of Cameron, Hidalgo,
| Willacy and Starr counties and
have found soil conditions very sat-
isfactory, with practically all acre
ages planted and many of the fields
showing thrifty growth.
In the unirrigated areas, where
heavy rains last fall put plenty of
moisture in the ground, the recent
rains have aided in seed germina-
ton. The stand is the best in re-
cent years, they state.
No accurate estimate has been
made on the acreage, but it will be
considerably in exces of any former
year, due to the large acreages
cleared. Practically all the acreage
of the unirrigated section will he
planted, and in several of the new
irrigation districts, where lands
have been cleared large acreages
have been planted to the staple.
The acreage of new lands planted
to cotton will be the greatest since
1929, it is sttaed.
Throughout the irrigated acreas
the cotton rea will be apprOxi-
mately the same as last year, pos
sibly with some increase. The
acreage of new lands planted to
cotton will be the greatest since
1926, 1t is stated.
Throughout the irrigated areas
the cotton acreage will be approx
mately the same as last years, pos
Sibly with some increase. The acre
age Of late cotton will be greater,
due to utilization of land on which
late spring truck crops were raised.
The most pronounced increase
will be in the unirrigated section
to the north and east of Edinburg,
where thousands Of acres were
cleared during the fall and winter,
practically all of which has been
planted. In Willacy county large
acreages also have been cleared and
planted. In Willacy county large
acreages also have been cleared and
planted, including thousands Of
acres in both the western and east
ern sections.
In that section Of Cameron coun-
ty lying north Of a line between
CombeS and Rio Hondo, including
the Hardin lands and the area be-
tween Combes and the north flood
way. rapid progress has been made
in clearing, and it is estimated the
cotton acreage will be increased at
least 100 per cent. In the north
eastern part of the county and also
in the coastal areas considerable
acreage will be planted to the
staple.
The rains Of last week were very
opportune, coming at a time when
the moisture was needed to ger
inmate the seed and to start the
young plants with thrifty growth.
Practically the entire u~nirrigated
area received drenching rains, in
Guiding the eastern section of Starr
county. With good seaso in the
soil from the heavy fall rains, and
with one or two more rains during
the growing season, the crop should
prove the heaviest the Valley ever
produced, growers state.
The cotton land throughout the
entire Valley was in better shape
for planting than in any previous
year. Practically all old land had
been prepared previous to the heavy
fall rains, and the new land was
broken as fast as cleared. Weather
conditions during the spring also
have been propitous and the cror
has been planted early. The gen
eral cleanup effected last fall is ex-
pected to NATURALLY reduce boil
| weevil infeStation.
In many sections Of the VALLEY
chopping is already underway, and
growers report that the stand is
heavy with every prospect that the
crop will be the earliest ever pro-
duced. Z