Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-06-26
I'm OUR
VALLEY
LIKE FATHER, like SON."

LIKE FATHER, Ike son.
Isaac Corns. Jr., son OF Isaac
Corns. Sr.. Texas Master Farmer
who lives near Rio Hondo. has been
selected as one Of the outstanding
4-H club boys of the nation at a
national encampment OF farm club
boys and girls.
Young Corns was one OF two
boys selected to represent Texas at
this annual meeting which was at
tended by 800 young people from
80 states and the Hawaiian islands.
This boys record is so much bet
ter than that Of the average grown
man that a comparison should
make adults ashamed OF them
selves.
The record which entitled Isaac
Corns TO represent Texas az the
encampment includes saving Of
s2.09ll0 in three years.
This sum Of money has been
banked by the boy from club pro-
JectS he has handled in the past
three years. including cotton, corn
and poultry undertakings.
He has been awarded many prizes
ror unusual merit. including a short
course scholarship at A. and NJ
college and money from the Valley
Mid-Winter Fair
Corns Senior was selected one OF
ten master farmers in Texas in a
contest conducted by "A. and NJ
college In cooperation with Farm
and Ranch. Dallas farm publica-
tion.
The boy seems TO have learned
well the lessons his father could
teach him.
BIG MANUFACTURERS Of the
East are urging potato growers to
adopt a consumer package for mar
keting the spud crop-and there
may be a valuable suggestion in
that for Valley growers.
It would require more careful
grading. thorough washing and
exx5a care in shipping to establish
a Ide brand which would demand
ketS. but 1t could be done.
An experiment conducted by the
bag manufacturer indicates the ex-
ira care and work would paw a
handsome return to the growefs.
Fifteen-pound bags were used in
the experiment. details OF which
are told as follows:
Exchange. Cadillac, Mich, shipped
q car Of northern potatoes, packed
in 15-pound bags. TO F. p. Coward
and Son at Buffalo. The car ar
rived on Saturday and by the fol-
lowing Thursday all Of the 2,4O0
bags were IN grocers' shops. About
half the bags in the retailers
hands were sold by Friday of the
same week. and all we're gone by
Saturday night.
,"SpeakinE of the cost in connec-
ton with this trial shipment, the
pamphlet says that This extra
premium means that the grower
organization realized S.0l5 extra for
the careful grading plus SyO365 for
II the special pack. or a total Of $0515
N per peck or Sl2360 a carload over
III the REVEALING market price"
IN ABOUT A YEAR ago there was
cotton cishiony scale in some Val
ley orchards.
Lady piSd bettleS IS cents Zo=.ts
OF them, natural enemies Of this
hind Of scale. were imported and
8released IN the infested orchards.
NOW there are neither scale of
kshe cotton cushiony variety nor
beetles Of the lady bird kind in
she Valley.
The theory IS that the beetles ate
Hu the scale there was in the VAL
ev. and then as Is their custom
turned cannibals and ate each other
\ Calls 10 mind the story OF the
two foxes who totally consumed
zach other.
PLANS to refinance the city Of
fRrownsville with a bond issue,
ghroached at the city commission
meeting Tuesday. are not new.
\ The plant has been under consid-
Grafton for some time. Merely
means that short term. high inter-
est rate warrants will be taken up
and replaced with long term, low
interest bearing bonds.
SUI a plan. which would require
an esee ion. would relieve the de-
II n,an,4s on the treasury and likely
res,IlkN,n the tax rate being main
tai1ed at its present level, one Of
the lowest in the Valley.
n when. and If the bond election is
called u is to be hoped the city
IA commission viii see fit to include
srfficlent sums in the issue to pay
for an incinerator.
THE present method Of dispos-
s,g ~ garbage is unsightly as well
i'll ms unsanitary
Another advantage is that Il
--o,,Id enable Commissioner Of
S.rsstS and Parks Burt 4. Hinkley
~ beautify the entrance to the city
mark on the resaca-
AZ present the necessity for
s.;,,i,,r past the city dumping
-a-rd and inhaling smoke from
80 burning rubbish is sufficient
=. III tssn most people out Of the park
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