Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-07-02

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tree apparently personally and in
dividually groomed are mythical
there is no such thing in existence.
This is the report of j. z. Bell,
manager of the San Benito Cham
ber of Commerce, who returned
last week from a trip to Washing
ton. On his way back he went by
Florida.
Valley orchards are better cared
aor now than the average in Flor
ida, Bell says.
The Florida orchards are ragged,
untrimmed and yellow from lack of
fertilizer.
Invasion of the Mediterranean
fruit fly is blamed for the sorry
plight of the orchards there. Many
of the growers have become dis
couraged, others are not in finan-
cial condition to purchase fertilizer,
TO employ workers to prune and
Gultivate the trees.
This is a sad state of affairs, but
gust because Bell found Florida
orchards in a poorer state than
Valley groves is no reason why To-
cal growers should not continue to
strive for better product by i'm
proving cultural methods and care.
Valley orchards may rank above
Mhose of Florida, but there is much
Goom for improvement here in the
Eare of trees.
EVIDENTLY the cotton pickers
In Cameron county have won the
first skirnish in the picker
battle. Farmers announced Mon
day, after an executive committee
dneeting in Harlingen, that they
would pay 81 hundred pounds.
Previously the price had been set
mt rs cents. Farmers found the
Af& ers reluctant to enter the fields
at that figure, especially when just
hRcNoSS the line in Hidalgo and Will
9acy county the farmers were pay
Idng two-bitS per hundred more.
And even the increase in price is
not expected to produce sufficient
hworkers to keep abreast with the
Eapidly maturing crop.
" So call is broadcast for 1000 to
1000 additional pickers.
NEW MEXICAN immigration
Regulations causing no little confu-
BEion. Seems to be difference of
kOpinion among the officials inter
sested as to the exact date when
EUnited States citizens must begin
ito comply with the rules.
Saturday it was announced citi-
eEens living outside of Brownsville
hwould be required to secure con-
EEular permits before visiting Mata-
knoros Sunday. Then Monday 1t
was announced the permits were
mot required Sunday, but would be
in the future.
Then all immigration officials
along the border seem to have diff
ferent ruling.
At Reynosa nothing has been
heard OF any change in the rules.
At Rio Grande City there were ru-
nors, but no definite information.
At Roma definite instructions had
been issued but they appeared to
differ from those issued at Mata-
moroS.
The new regulations are much
more drastic than anything ever
attempted before. Possibly this is
an explanation.
Everything will likely be working
smoothly in a few days.
WITH ACTUAL construction of
&he huge irrigation system still
many months away, thousands of
Noung citrus trees on the tract in
FWillacy county to be watered by
lWillacy county irrigation district
mo. are growing and thriving.
Some of the prettiest trees to be
ee4n in the Valley are on that tract
lN#ere no water is yet available ex-
Icspt that which can be handled in
water wagons.
On the Engleman tract the same
thing is true. Thousands of young
citrus trees which never have been
swstered except from tank wagon,
are thriving.
Seems to lend weight to the
statement that most trees in the
Errigated section are over -watered.
VIRGIL N. LOTT, former news
paperman, former United States
officer in border service and at
present manager of the interna-
tional bridge at Roma, is planning
to take vacation and attend the
annual convention of Spanish
American war veterans in Colo
rado. after visit on the Pacific
coast
Il never have attended a Span
ish-American war vetera1-s' gather
ing yet" he said, and the ranks
are beginning to thin rapidly. I
intend TO be in on this one"
But he's coming back to Roma
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