Arizona republican., 1906-11-19
GROWING IN FAVOR
 WITH DOCTOR STONE
His Former Good Impressions of Ari zona Were Intensified By The Not able Success of The Recent Fair.

Dr. r. F.. Stone of Burlingto on. Wis. who served the Arizona territorial fair association in the capacity of starter at the recent meeting. and a year ago. and who had direct charge of the rac- ing events. in an administrative way. left last night for Los Angeles. where he has been engaged to serve during the present week in a similar capacity. A mixed harness and running meet will begin on Tuesday and last the rest of the week. The following week he will fill a like position at the meeting to be held in San BernarGinO, after which he will return to his home in Wisconsin.
 Before leaving yesterday. the doctor was asked to say something concern ing his impressions of the Arizona fair. the stock exhibits. the races. etc. He said he was glad to do so and was willing to say anything and everything complimentary that he could think of for the subject is one that could not be Overdone. Of the fair in general he said 1t was the biggest and best thing of the kind he had ever seen for a project only two years old. The improvement in the race track and track events was notable. The horses as a class averaged much faster than those present the year before and some remarkably good time was made. con- corning which the records have been published and speak for themselves. He has been presiding at race meet ings for great many years and in his experience has started fast horses over many of the best tracks in the country He said the work done this year had convinced him that he was justified In saying the Phoenix track ''is one of the fastest tracks in the world, and 1 believe the fastest track I ever start ed a horse Over."
 Concerning the live stock exhibit he was very enthusiastic The show was such an improvement over the year before. one could not help noting the difference. and there is nothing to stop an annual improvement along this line The competition of the premiums will inspire every farmer and every rarm- CTS boy to raise something for the fair. either animal or vegetable. and raise the best that can be grown. The breed ing stock now used in the valley equals that of any country. thorough bred, registered stock in all lines and the conditions for securing the best of all the kinds grown are incomparable. The climate conduces to an ail-the year-round growth in stock and almost the same in plant life. In speaking of the stock he seemed to be more i'm pressed by a mule colt than almost anything else. He had seen one that was only a spring foal ana yet it was almost big enough to work. The req son Is that good stock is used and 1t is constant growth all the time. where any care at all is taken. There is no housing of the stock for three or four months every year, to keep it out of the snow drifts and no switching from green to dry feed is necessary. There is green feed all the time if it is desirable, and dry feed too. if wanted. but for the most part the stock brought in off a pasture looks better than lots of it in the east that has to be stall-fed and coaxed along to good condition for exhibition purposes.
 Of the valley lands. as an opportu- nifty for young men who are inclined to agriculture and stock raising. he could not say enough. He insisted that if the hundreds of young men he knows in the north country. could ap- preciate what this valley has to offer. they would come here in an army. Some of the best stock in the country is produced in the northern states. but it is only through good judgment and infinite care. and after the stock is ready for the market. it has cost all it will sell for. Here a man turns his young stock in the pasture and lets it care for itself while he is busy har vesting his three or four or five crops a year as the case may be. off the same ground. He said that he expect ed the fair next year would show an equal ratio of improvement over this years exhibition. There is nothing that can prevent such a result if the people will it. for they have the con- ditiOns. and it cannot be many years until the valley is recognized as the natural home of good stock for the supplying of the whole southwest.
 Dr Stone is a veterinarian bV DrO-