Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-08-03
IN OUR
VALLEY

WOULD YOU HAVE thought
that a cold and damp spring would
cut down the yield Of a citrus tree?
Neither would we.
Yet department Of agriculture
men working in the Valley tell US
that the predicted cut in the Flor
Ida crop Is due to that very thing.
And that the Valley crop would
be cut were 1t not for the thousands
N&fcres OF youngster trees coming
tfYo bearing this year for the first
time.
Seems that during cool and damp
periods the blossoms do not open
sufficiently to become ~pollenized, a
process which takes three or four
days.
insufficient polarization results
in a depleted fruit yield, and there
we are.
The man who thinks farming or
grove culture consists in putting
the seed or the tree in the ground
and then waiting for nature to do
her stuff is off the track.
A farmer, a successful farmer.
must be a combination Of business
man, entomo.ogist, scientist and
what have you.
And what is more, he must be
good at all Of them to be good at
farming.
They talk about diversified farm
ing. it takes a diversified man to
be any kind Of a farmer. and a
a super-diversified one to be an ex-
ponent Of diversified farming.
EDCOUCH SPRINGS into the
valley limelight with two
postal robberies within 10 months
time.
City of Edcouch could do without
the publicity the robberies have
brought, we imagine.
Strange thing about news.
\ Edcouch not SO long ago cele-
ohEated the completion Of four blocks
Of paving.
Nothing 50 unusual about that.
the paving was financed without
the issuance Of bonds or warrants.
Edcouch may claim a record.
And that record should be news.
but strange again, the big news
agencies did not so consider it.
In this day and time any city
that is economically financed and
managed as to be able TO forego
the issuance of bonds ard still get
public improvements is entitled TO
the headlines.
DONNA NEWS, fighting for the
credit it claims is due the city OF
Donna, tells the word that Donna
stands second in the Wiley vege-
table league.
Editor Hadsell balkS at figures
published which place Donna fur
ther down the list.
Claims that fruit and vegetables
packed at Val Verde are actually
shipped from Donna, and should
be credited TO Donna.
His argument may or may not
win out with the Mo.-Pac.
Whether IL does or not, there Is
no ~gainsaying the rapid rise taken
by the Donna community n its
vegetable culture during the past
five or six years.
Time was when Donna was way
down the list att he seasons end.
Four or five hundred cars a sea-
son were considered good.
And now they claim over 1000.
In fact, Donna is becoming a
center OF carrot and beet growing,
for example.
WILLACY COUNTY had 1880
acres in cultivation in 1920, the
Willacy County News tells its read
ers.
Mud in 1881. the News goes on to
4te. there are $500 acres in Guilt
yation.
The News could have gone
further and said that in 1910
there will be 10000 acres in cultiva-
ton up there where the Valley
begins.
By that time the county will have
succeeded in getting the Hug-the-
Coast highway routing.
It's irrigation system will be
watering thousands Of acres OF land
before then.
The so-called dry lands Of today
will have passed away.
You can't sell Willacy county
short.
TRIPLE. A manager for the Val
lev. tells La Feria RotarianS hat
the trend Of tourist travel Is surely
headed for the Valley.
cites the thousands OF inquiries
received in washington when the
erroneous rer"rt was broadcast
: that the hig sly TO Mexico City
from the border was open 70 travel.
Warns the Valley 70 be ready for
the tourist throng when 1t arrives
Good advice.
should be taken.
AS a matter of fact. is being
taken.