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

2AAAA@ AAG-AAs INT H1AAs
Isaac Corns, Jr., son Of Isaac
corns, Sr., Texas Master Farmer
who lives near Rio Hondo. has been
selected as one Of the outstanding
III 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 300 young people from
S8 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
t selves.
The record which entitled Isaac
Germs to represent Texas at the
encampment includes saving of
n s2-091.10 in three years.
This sum Of money has been
banked by the boy from club pro-
1ects he has handled in the past
three years. including cotton, corn
and poultry undertakings.
He has been awarded many prizes
for unusual merit. including a short
course scholarship at A. and M.
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
md Ranch, Dallas farm publica-
Il On.
N61he boy seems to have learned
~ the lessons his father could
tea. a 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.
II would require more careful
F-ading, thorough washing and
satra care in shipping to establish
s%rade brand which would demand
a higher price in the retail mar
ketS, but it could be done.
An experiment conducted by the
bag manufacturer indicates the ex-
ira care and work would pay a
handsome return TO the growers.
Fifteen-pound bags were used in
the experiment, details Of which
are told as follows:
THE Michigan Potato Growers
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 2.400
bags were in grocers' shops. About
nalf the bags in the retailers
hands were sold by Friday Of the
same week. and all were gone BY
Saturday night.
Speaking of the cost in connec-
ton with this trial shipment, the
pamphlet says that This extra
premium means that the grower
organization realized s.015 extra for
the careful grading plus S.0365 for
the special pack, or a total OF S.05l5
per peck or S123.60 a carload over
the prevailing market price"
( ABOUT A YEAR ago there was
cotton cushiony scale in some VAL
ley orchards.
Lady bird BEETLES, IS cents worth
of them, natural enemies Of this
kind Of scale. were imported and
released in the infested orchards.
Now there are neither scale OF
the cotton cuShiony variety nor
seetles Of the lady bird kind in
+he Valley.
The theory is that the beetles ate
tn the scale there was in the Val
~. and then as is their custom.
turned cannibals and ate each other.
Calls TO mind the story Of the
bvo foxes who totally consumed
ach other.
PLANS to refinance the city of
brownsville with a bond issue,
lroached at the city commission
heeting Tuesday. are not new.
4 The plant has been under consid-
D ration for some time. Merely
leans that short term. high inter-
v rate warrants will be taken I'D
nd replaced with long term, low
terest bearing bonds.
Such a plan. which would require
election. would relieve the de-
k.ds on the treasury and likely
- IN the tax rate being main
med at its present level, one Of
Ahe lowest in the Valley.
when. and If the bond election is
called. Il is to be hoped the city
commission will see fit to include
sufficient sums In the issue to pay
for an incinerator.
The present method of dispos-
enc Of garbage Is unSightly as well
as unsanitary.
Another advantage is that it
~ould enable Commissioner Of
streets and Parks Burt E. Hinkley
II beautify the entrance to the city
mark on the resaca.
AT present the necessity for
arivinr past the city dumping
>-o,,nd and inhaling smoke from
sbe burning rubbish is sufficient
~ keep most people out Of the park
altogether.