Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1893-11-20
NEW MEXICO AGRICULTURE.
An Interesting Talk with Gen. Hobart
on the Successful Exhibit at
the Worlds Fair.
Dense ignorance Knocked Out-A Com.
pliment from Germany-Some
Amusing Incidents.


Hon. E, F. Hobart, who has returned
home after two months stay at Chi
cago where he had charge of New Mex
ico's agricultural exhibit at the great fair,
talks entertainingly of the good work
accom- lished by this feature of the dis
play.
The part that at first usually attract
ed the attention Of the visitor was the
tasteful display of wheat and other grains
sent by the agricultural college, but dur
ing the last two months the other dis
plays drew larger crowds, being made
very full and complete by the additional
car loads received, which we're handsomely
arranged by Comr. Mills. Among these
were the watermelons and onions from
Albuquerque, the wool display from Gross,
Blackwell IL Co., Las Vegas; the prize
wheat from John Becker at Belen, the
cana-agria from Deming, the ten-foot
johnson grass from Sierra county and
the six-foot oats from San Miguel county.
MULTITUDEs OF FARMERS
lard, most of the visitors during these
last two months were farmers) declared
that the heads of these oats were the finest
they had ever seen. The stacks of fra
grant alfalfa from San Miguel and Eddy
counties (of which every one would stop
to smelD were a constant wonder when
its productiveness was pointed out, and
its quality attested by the fact that Bud
Doble had just sent to the far west for
two car loads of alfalfa for feed for his
horses that were then running in the ad-
joining Washington park.
"Well' the Mississippi valley farmers
would say, who were suffering with
drought, 1--WE are mighty glad if we can
get one crop of anything in this country"
A GERMANS COMPLIMENT.
The special commissioner appointed
by the Emperor of Germany to examine
and report upon agriculture in the United
States, who is also director of Prussian
agricultural college, spent several hours
examining this exhibit, and Gen. Hobart
quotes him as saying: "This is the finest
agricultural display on the ground"
AS whole the exhibit was a great sue
cess. Many of those who saw it ex-
pressed their determination to come to
New Mexico to settle. Some friends of
Gen. Hobart, whom he met there for the
first time in years, will be here next week
to invest and many others will follow.
DENSE IGNORANCE.
eve had some rather dense ignorance
to contend WITH" said Gen. Hobart. "One
bright young lady presented her album.
How do you like these United States of
ours?' said she, but suppose you like
your own country best Yes 1 said
ours is better country to live in 4
am getting the autographs of all the
foreign commissioners said she. And
so mine was added to the distinguished
list.
"One question that became tiresome
from its reiteration was, you have to ir-
rigate all these products, don't your
No. the reply would be, 1--WE don't have
to irrigate in New Mexico, we prefer to
irrigate because it is the best way to
farm" And at the end Of the convecsa-
ton the visitor would admit that it was
the best way to farm.
"a gentleman from one of the neigh
boring state exhibits came in with the
question How do you
SPLICE YOUR oATs?'
Thinking that our sheafs were of the
same compound character as the three
foot ears of corn in the Iowa build
ing, but we at last satisfied him that we
did not splice our oats.
"May l give an incident in which that
agricultural product the Columbian guard
figured. l was sitting one evening, at the
back corner of the agricultural building,
near where the Columbus caravels lay
watching the swarming steamers and
electric launches on the south pond. The
caravels had three days before been pre-
scented and turned over to the United
States and the Spanish sailors who had
sailed them across the ocean had left
them. Three Spanish sailors of those
that had left the Santa Maria came up to
the guard standing near me, whom they
had known for some months and who
thought that he had in that time
LEARNED SPANISH.
One of the sailors commenced 'quiero
por mis- cartas' and proceeded to tell the
guard what he wanted. Near me stood o
large hand cart such as .umbermen use.
The guard spoke to me and asked if the
cart was mine, and on receiving mega
tive answer turned to the sailor and said,
Yes guess you can take that Cart My
attention being thus called to the matter
was enabled to enter into the converse
ton and explain to the guard that cartas
didn't mean CART but that the sailors had
come to say that they we're now stopping
at the barn, where the ponies were, and
that if any letters came for them to the
Santa Maria they wanted them sent over
to that barn. And so received the valu-
able thanks of the sailors who seemed
astonished that any one in that benight-
ed land should know enough Spanish to
understand anything they said"