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MERCEDES NEWS-TRIBUNE
FRIDAY, JUNE 27, 1930
VALLEY EXPERIMENT STATION NO. 15 GIVES ANNUAL REPORT
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red flesh color than
Pinks and are more
taste at this time.
NO POINT MORE THAN 15 MINUTES DISTANT
FROM THE MAIN ESTABLISHMENT AT MERCEOES
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And in the center of this development is the American
Rio Grande Land and Irrigation Company system, the most
highly developed section, not only of Hidalgo county, but .
of the entire Valley.
Special revised figures on the final count of Hidalgo
county’s population just issued shows a total of 76,728, a
tremendous growth since the last census-10 years ago.
This is proven by the shipping records of the two rail-
ways serving this territory which shows that one-third of
the entire outgoing tonnage of the Valley originates from
the four shipping points—Mercedes, Weslaco, Edcouch and
Elsa.
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Introduction Of New
Plants Also Phase of
Station Work
26th day of July, A. D. 1930.
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Our Establishment
People prefer to use our modern
establishment because, with the adjoin-
ing family room, it affords greater
privacy than is possible in a church or
residence.
With all its advantages, the use
of our funeral home does not add to
the cost of the service. It is at the
disposal of each Stotler patron without
extra charge.
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FOR TAX COLLECTOR
R. S. Chambers
The News-Tribune is authorized
to announce R. S. Chambers as a
candidate for the office of Tax Col-
candidate for the office of Tax Col-
lector of Hidalgo County, Texas,
cratic Primary, to be held on the
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quirements in the
way of real estate
in the Valley’s
most favored
spot — the Amer-
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The News-Tribune is authorized
to announce Chas. H. Hupp as a can-
didate for the office of Treasurer
of Hidalgo County, Texas, subject
to the action of the Democratic Pri-
mary, to be held on the 26th day of
July, A. D. 1930. .
NOTICE
I have sold my business known as
the Mercedes 5-10 and 25c store to
R. L. Thomes, effective June 3, 1930.
I will not be responsible for any
debts or obligations contracted after
that date.
The total number of farms in the county is 4,544 arid
there are 2,622 citrus orchards. When one considers that .
a large portion of the county is in the dry or un-irrigated
belt this development is still more remarkable.
Withdraw Electric Power
from American Industry and
stagnation would result—for
Electricity is the most ECO-
NOMICAL as well as the most
dependable power available to
the manufacturer.
Electricity is equally eco-
nomical in the home, where,
for an average cost of less than
a dime a day, it brilliantly illum-
inates every room in the house
and furnishes heat and power
for time- and labor-saving
electrical appliances.
We are always keenly inter-
ested in helping you get the
maximum value from your
Electric. Service, and if there
is any information we can give
you as to how you may get
more value from your service,
please come in and ask for it
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common on all plats. This condition
seemed to vary more with individual
plants within the same plat than be-
tween different plats. The greatest
number of high-producing plants
were, on a plat receiving 4-8-8 fer-
tilizer at the rate of 600 pounds per
acre.
Adaptability Studies With Vege-
tables:' Cauliflower, Green Sprout-
ing Broccoli, White Endive, Esca-
role, Sweet Fennel, New York Let-
tuce, Turnips, Mustard, and Spin-
ach all produced satisfactory crops
this season. Broccoli was a much
more certain crop than cauliflower,
as a number of the cauliflower
sorts suffer severely from mildew
and black rot in this climate. Va-
rieties like Carmen show a decided
chlorosis in this environment.
Varieties of Cotton: Varieties like
Stoneville, Delfos, Express, and
Trice produced the highest yields
this season. The quality of the sta-
ple was below par this year on ac-
count of the excessive stalk growth.
The average yield from Delfos and
Acala cottons grown on the station
this season was well over one bale
per acre.
Spacing of Cotton : Thick spacing
P Hinericqji Rio Grande Lnd.
and Irrigation Company
LAND DEPARTMENT
Elsa, Texas
and Sweet Lemons are carrying a
very heavy crop this season. Myer
Lemon trees are heavily loaded and
the fruit is apparently more resist-
ant to scab than is the lemon of
commerce. Ichang Lemon, a Unit-
ed States Department of Agricul-
ture introduction, gives promise of
being a valuable stock plant. Some
varieties of citrus are apparently-
thriving on Citrange and Citrange-
quat roots. The United States De-
partment of Agriculture Navel Or-
ange trees in this orchard are more
productive than the Washington
Navel and the fruit is more uni-
form and of superior quality.
Date. Experiments Enlarged: The
heat-treated offshoots which were
imported from California during the
past three seasons have made very
satisfactory progress. Shoots large
enough to remove from the parent
palms are now growing on the first
lot of palms received from the In-
dio Garden. Most of the two-year-
old palms have only a - few side
shoots. However, the Maktum palm
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season. Borers did a great deal of
damage to corn this season but birds
were not as troublesome as usual.
Grain Sorghum versus Corn: No
variety of grain sorghum produced
a yield of grain that was in any way
comparable with the yield of Tux-
pan corn this season. Midge dam-
age during the blossoming period
and bird damage during the latter
part of the season probably account
for the very poor showing of the
grain sorghums this season. Darso
planted later in the season made
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'Allhead Early was not
different from Flat
There is very little land on this system riot under cul-
tivation. ' The only remaining tract of any size is owned
by this company, some 8,000 acres, and this we are now
offering the public. It is the same fertile soil now produc-
irig so heavily and it will pay you to investigate this land
and our prices before purchasing in the Valley.
of cotton gave the highest yield of
seed cotton this season. This is in
agreement with last season’s results
when soil moisture was not a factor
in production at any part of the sea-
son.
Corn Varieties: Tuxpan was
again the most desirable variety
in the test this season. Plats of
Hastings? Prolific corn produced the
highest total yield, but owing to the
small size of the ears, this variety
is not as desirable an all-purpose
corn as is Tuxpan. Oklahoma White
Wonder was also a high yielder this
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yields this season have been high
producers in the past.
Apparently individual tree differ-
ences account for a considerable
part of the rather wide variation
in the performance of similarly
treated plats.
Wind and dust were found to have
a decidedly injurious effect on the
trees near the margins of the orch-
ard, as shown by general appear-
ance and yields for the past five
seasons.
Most of the four-year-old trees in
the variety rootstock' orchard • are
carrying a fair set of fruit. The
grapefruit trees are considerably
more vigorous than most of the or-
ange trees. Temple is probably the
most vigorous of the orange trees
and Duncan and Foster of the
grapefruit trees. Satsuma trees on
calamondin roots are fruiting this
season and the fruit was almost
ripe by September 1. One of the
twelve trees on rough lemon roots
died of root-rot this season. Pink
Marsh grapefruit are showing more
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Kitchen or Cellar.
65c size (2 cakes) for Chicken House,
coops, or small buildings.
$1.25 size (5 cakes) enough for all farm
and out-buildings, storage buildings or fac-
tory buildings.
Sold and Guaranteed by
KASEY DRUG COMPANY
PATTY’S FEED & SEED STORE
WAITE-JEFFRIES DRUG STORE
Several of the offshoots strains of Danvers. Many Dan-
started growth vers roots were' broken in harvest- I
plants showed a dwarfed condition
and failed to mature heads. En-
dive and Escarole were damaged? to
a considerable extent by cotton root-
rot in March. Plats of lettuce and
spinach in this same field were not
injured by root-rot while a plat of
earrots was practically destroyed by
the fungus. Downy mildew destroy-
ed a large portion of the spinach
crop after the rainy season started
in April. Mustard and turnips pro-
duced a very satisfactory crop, but
had to be sprayed at rather frequent
intervals for aphis control.
Onion Production: Treating the
seed with copper carbonate dust in-
creased the stand of Y onions materi-
ally. Transplanting delayed matur-
ity, increased the percentage of
splits and doubles, but made for
greater uniformity in the size of the
mature onions. Rain during the
harvest season -caused a loss of the
greater part of the crop from soft
rot.
Grape Root Stck and Variety
Tests: In an effort to find a varie-
ty of grape that will be adapted
to this region, -a number of stand-
ard sorts and some of the more
promising root-stock plants are be-
ing 'grown on the station. Black
Spanish is a very productive variety
in this region and gives some prom-
ise as a root-stock plant.- Some hy-
brids of Mustang and Champani are
also promising.' Most cultivated
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Growing Of Citrus;
And Vegetables In •
Valley Is Studied J
ing, which would make the total
yield less than with Chantenay un-
der actual field conditions.
Detroit Dark Red beets were more
uniform than" Crosby beets but
slightly slower in , reaching matur-
ity. Early Wonder beets were in-
ferior to the average run of Crosby
beets. There was a decided lack of
uniformity in all strains of beets
studied.
Strains of Bliss Triumphs pota-
toes produced the highest yields
this past season. Irish Cobbler was
the only other variety that ap-
proached Bliss Triumph in point of
yield. Varieties like Red McClure,
Netted Gem, and Downing were very
low yielders. Irish Gobbler potatoes
kept better in storage than did the
Bliss Triumph potatoes. The best
strains of Bliss' Triumph potatoes
produced more than 400 bushels of
marketable tubers per acre.
Effect of Irrigation on Seed Po-
tatoes: The yield from seed pota-
toes grown under irrigation in one
of the North Central States was
greater than that from a similar
strain grown without irrigation.
Fertilizer Tests With Tomatoes:
Mosaic disease appeared on the to-
mato plants in the fertilizer test to
such an extent that it was thought
best to record the yield of each plant
in each plat separately. Yield from
individual, plats within the'Same plat
varied from zero to eight pounds of
marketable fruit per plant. Yields
from different individual plants va-
ried more than did the mean yields
for the different plats. Yields were
recorded only from apparently nor-
mal plants in areas of perfect stand.
Tomato pockets, or puffing, was
FOR SHERIFF
R. T. (Bob) Daniels
The News-Tribune is authorized
to announce R. T. (Bob) Daniels, as
a candidate for the office of Sheriff
of Hidalgo County, Texas, subject
to the action of the Democratic Pri-
mary, to be held on the "26 day of
July, A. D. 1930,
FOR COUNTY COMMISSIONER,
PRECINCT NO. 1
J. V. McFarling
The News-Tribune is authorized
to announce J. V. McFarling, as a
■candidate for the office of County
Commissioner, Precinct No. 1, Hi-
dalgo County, Texas, subject to the
action of the Democratic Primary
to be held on the 26th day of July,
A. D. 1930.
FOR COUNTY COMMISSIONER
. PRECINCT NO. 1
A. F. Clagett
.The News-Tribune is authorized to
announce A. F. Clagett as a can-
didate for the office of County Com-
missioner, Precinct No. 1, Hidalgo
County, Texas, subject to the action
of the Democratic Primary to be held
on the 26th day of July, A. D. 1930
FOR JUSTICE OF THE PEACE
PRECINCT NO. 1
W. F. Stedman
The News-Tribune is authorized
to announce W. F. Stedman as a
candidate for the office of Justice
of the Peace, Precinct No. 1, Hidal-
go County, Texas, subject to the
action of the Democratic Primary,
to be held on the 26th day of July,
A. D. 1930.
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for the first time this spring. A
very, satisfactory percentage of these
cooked shoots have recovered and
are now growing in a satisfactory
manner. A planting consisting of
approximately 1,000 imported off-
shoots1 from Mesopotamia was made
on the station this season. Approx-
imately 40 per cent of these shoots
have started growth at this time.
This lot of Mesopotamian varieties
was secured through the cooperation
of the United States Department
of Agriculture.' Some varieties
seemed to withstand 'the Heat and
fumigation treatments and the four
months’ journey much-better than
did other sorts. Small shoots were
apparently more hardy than the
larger shoots.
Standardization of Vegetable Va-
rieties: Cabbage of the Eukhuizen
type was superior to any other sort
tested for the commercial production
of cabbage for shipment in bulk.
Copenhagen-type cabbage was ear-
lier, more uniform, and superior in
quality to Enkhuizen, but not so re-
The forty-second annual report of
the Valley Experiment Station gives
the results of many experiments in
the growing of citrus vegetables and
other Valley plants which have
been carried on at the station dur-
ing the past year. Different va-
rieties of stock dr seed, various
methods and times of planting, cul-
tivating, fertilizing and irrigating
and the results of each are observed
in the minutest detail and given in
the report which is available to all
farmers in the Valley. The report
in full follows:
Texas Substation No. 15, the Low-
er Rio Grande Valley Experiment
Station, is located in Hidalgo coun-
ty. The station comprises one hun-
dred acres of land lying immediate-
ly north of the Valley highway
about midway between Weslaco and
Mercedes. Approximately eighty
acres of the station are actually
used in growing crops. The remain-
ing portion of the land is used for
roadways, canals, drains, and guard
spaces. The major portion of the
land which was reclaimed last sea-
son grew fairly good crops this sea-
son. A small acreage in a poorly
drained portion was lost following
one of the very heavy rains in May.
The citrus-fruit planting on the sta-
tion was increased, by approximate-
ly three acres this season.
The Lower Rio Grande Valley Ex-
periment Station was established
primarily for the purpose of con-
ducting research work with citrus
fruits and vegetables under actual
field conditions. The program of
the station includes work in subtrop-
icalhorticulture, olericulture, viti-
culture, agronomy, plant introduc-
tion, entomology, and plant pathol-
ogy. A rather extensive program in
date-palm culture was started this
season for the purpose of determin-
ing the possibilities in this. field.
Citrus Fruit Production: Increas-
ed yields from the cover-cropped
plants were less pronounced than
those of last season, while yields
from the fertilizertest plants in
general showed a decided increase.
Deficiency of soil moisture and ex-
posure to desiccating winds probab-
ly influenced the light set on the
cover-cropped plats to some extent.
There was little or no consistency
in the yields from the fertilizer test
plats, since those receiving a single
fertilizer element in the treatment
produced. more fruit than did the
plats receiving a complete fertilizer.
The same plats which produced high
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type of cabbage are slow in reaching
maturity, large in size, rather loose,
and extremely, hardy. Black rot was
a very important factor in cabbage
production in the Valley this sea-
son. The use of infested seed was
the principal cause of this outbreak
of disease. Seed from some regions
were practically free from infection,
while others were badly infected.
Tomatoes of the Earliana and
Burbank type were decidedly more
productive but much less uniform in
size and shape than were Marglobe
and Norton tomatoes. Mosiac dis-
ease appeared on all of the plats but
appeared on transplanted plants
earlier in the7 season and in a more
severe form than on the plants
grown by direct seeding. .
Carrots of the' Danvers type were
superior to' Chantenay this season.
When grown on deep sandy loam
the Danvers carrots were long, slen-
der/ and particularly well adapted
for packing in lettuce crates. Chan-
tenay carrots were rather large and
coarser in appearance than the best
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Prince, A. E. Mercedes News-Tribune (Mercedes, Tex.), Vol. 17, No. 24, Ed. 1 Friday, June 27, 1930, newspaper, June 27, 1930; Mercedes, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1571599/m1/5/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Dr. Hector P. Garcia Memorial Library.