Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-04-14
PARTY May GO
TO CALIFORNIA
SHORT COURSE
Six Weeks Instruction
In Citrus Culture
Offered At Special
Experiment Grove

A party Of citrus growers of the
Lower Rio Grande Valley is to be
organized by County Agent Henry
L. Alsmeyer for a six-weekS' course
in citrus culture to be offered In
California this summer.
Valley growers have attended this
course in the past and have found
it highly instructive, according to
Alsmeyer. Among those who have
attended in the past in addition
to the county agent are j. B. Cham
bers, Harrington, w. H. Hughes, Mer-
cedes, r. c. Robertson, Brownsville
Paul Cowan, Donna, r. q. Burwell,
Santa Rosa and w. w. Anderson,
Donna.
This course is one of the best Of
fered in the United States, Alsmeyer
said. He hopes to organize a party
to make the trip.
Plans are Told
Plans for the instruction we're re-
vealed by Prof. Robert w. Hodgson
Of the University of California, who
recently visited the Valley on his
way home from Florida where he
had judged a number of citrus
shows. Prof. Hodgson is one of the
leading citrus specialists Of the
United States and will lecture at
the course.
Glasses open on July / and con-
tinue to August 10. They are to be
held at the citrus experiment station
Riverside, Cal.
CorooIo%a ;pforpootinp about fho
course can be obtained by address
ing Prof. Hodgson at 339 Hilgard
Hall Berkeley, Cal.
According to Professor Hodgson,
who recently spent several days in
the Valley, there has never been a
summer session held at Riverside
at which there were not more stu
dents from the Valley in attendance.
Offer Strong Course
He points out that students may
register in one Of two ways-either
as regular students taking the
courses for credit to be applied to-
ward an academic degree in some
institution Of higher learning, or as
auditors taking the courses for the
special value Of the subject matter
presented. Regular students are
expected to have at least junior stat
us in a college or university Of rec
ognized standing and are required
to have one year each Of college
chemistry and botany. There are
no special requirements for auditors
other than a serious interest in
the field Of citruiculture or sub
tropical horticulture.
The courses offered are regular
university courses and consist Of
lectures, laboratory exercises and
demonstrations five days a week for
six weeks and five all-day Saturday
field exercises which take the stu
dents into practically all parts Of
the citrus sections Of California. Ac-
cording to Professor Hodgson at
tendance at one of the Riverside
summer sessions affords by far the
best opportunity for persons in
other citrus sections of the world
to become familiar with the meth
DDS employed by the California
growers and also with the different
subtropical fruit producing sections
Of that state.
The courses offered during the
coming session include the follow
ing:
Citriculture (the citrus fruits), 4
units.
Subtropicals of lesser Importance
in the United States (the olive, av-
ocado. Japanese persimmon, pome-
granate, date, carob, juqube, luquat,
feijca, tuna, pistachio, cherimoya
guava, and white sapote), 4 units.
Disease affecting subtropical
fruits, 2 units.
Insects affecting subtropical
fruits, 2 units.