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

WOULD YOU HAVE thought
that q cold and damp spring would
cut down the yield Of q 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
Hsxcit were 1t not for the thousands
OF Eacres OF youngster trees coming
into 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, entomologist, 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, 1t takes a diversified man TO
be any kind Of q farmer, and a
q super-diversified n to be an *
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.
m Edcouch not SO long ago cele-
Mated the completion OF four blocks
Nothing so 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 1t.
In this day and time any city
that is economically financed and
managed as TO be able 70 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 III the Wiley vege-
table league.
Editor Hadsell balks at figures
published which place Donna fur
Their 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 1t does or not, there is
no ~gainsaying the rapid rise taken
bv the Donna community in its
vegetable culture during the past
five or six years.
Time was when Donna was way
down the list at the 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
VrEAscy County News tells its read
And in 1881. the News goes on to
state. there are $500 acres in cult
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.
Nv that time the county will have
succeeded in getting the Hug-the-
Coast highway routing.
Its irrigation system VIII oe
watering thousands OF acres OF lane
before then.
The so-called dry lands OF today
viii have passed away.
You can't sell Willacy county
short.
TRIPLE-A manager for q Val.
lev. tells La Feria Rotarians tna'
the trend of tourist travel Is surely
headed for the Valley.
cites the thousands Of inquire:
received in washington when the
erroneous report was broadcas'
that the highway to Mexico CITY
from the border was open 70 travel
warns the Valley TO be ready FOL
the tourist throng when II arrives
Good advice.
should be taken.
AS q matter OF fact, Is beine
taken.