Deming graphic. (Deming, N.M.) 1903-1948, 1911-10-13
LUNA COUNTY FAIR
BEST EVER HELD
Agricultural Development Of
the Mimbres Valley is
Absolutely Marvellous
LARGE LIST OF PRIZES
Record Breaking Attendance
Deep Interest Manifested
by Many Strangers.

The third annual fair of Luna
county will pass into history as the
best ever held in Southwestern New
Mexico. The exhibits by our pros
porous farmers were as good as any
section of the world can produce,
and gave evidence that the Mimbres
Valley is nothing less than a world
beater. The quality of the pro-
ducts, wheat, oats, corn, potatoes,
alfalfa, sugar beets. watermelons.
cantaloupes. squashes, peaches. ap-
piles, pears, pink beans, peas, cotton
and in in fact everything that grows
in the ground or on trees. was
shown in perfect form. 1t took
nearly 40 feet of one table and n
vast sidewall space to show what
DR.. Connawry has produced
since May 4. 1t might be well to
say. 10 passing, that from May a
TO October Is. DIR. Connaway will
raise $1,000 worth of crops on his
farm Of about 10 acres. that at the
beginning of the present year was
raw desert land. This is true, in a
smaller way, of all the exhibitors.
II is now known To all the world
that the Mimbres Valley products
have no superior in any country.
II was hard work to make people
believe that DR.. Swope could grow
box elder and black locust trees 9
feet high in one year from the seed,
but the trees were right there TO
show it and seeing is believing. 1t
might be equally difficult to make
folks think a grape vine would
grow "a feet in one year, hut the
doctor had the vine there with the
old and new growth, and Mrs.
Helen +. Moore can go him one
better by producing grape vine
this year has grown "a feet.
+. ID. Osborn a. Sons and s. o.
wheeler 4 Son had canned tomatoes
of their own special brand that
attracted much attention and show
ed how easy il is to make 5000 per
acre on land intensively TILED.
John Hund's alfalfa looked just
like dollars to everybody and j. +.
Westfalfs sugar beets looked quite
a lot like n sugar beet factory. Cab
bages that would fill a bushel bas-
ket were visible in several exhibits.
Prof. Bell exhibited twenty keys
of color" Of Mimbres Valley scenes
and crops that looked good to the
throngs that filed the spacious hall.
His finished paintings also attracted
much favorable comment, as did
likewise those of Miss Helen Piper,
N. p. Elufson and Mrs. Ralph Grea-
son. Mrs. +. A. Montenyohls ar
tistic hand-painted china was always
the center of an admiring crowd,
Mrs. r. H. Williams also coming in
for a generous share of praise,
Speaking Of white onions, Geo.
Shull was there with the goods that
are worth $3.50 per acre. Georges
potatoes looked almost good enough
to eat raw.
George Maisel and W. j. eleven
ger had squashes big enough for
chicken coops and watermelons in n
dozen exhibits were nearly 3 feet
long.
The big casabas grown by Paul
]. Case looked good to everybody
and the cash Paul is taking in for
the sale of the melons looks mighty
good to him. He'll take in a lot
more next year.
The poultry exhibits told in plain
language that this is one OF the
best poultry raising regions in the
United States, and the stock exhibit
shows the same.
Peaches exhibited by Geo. w.
Chester and Miss 0!cott told a
story that sounds good to the fruit
grower, likewise the vast variety OF
fruit exhibited by Ed Kimmick'
The sfine exhibit of Wah Bros
shows record of ten years of sue
cess in intensive farming. 1t tmeans
$4,000 per year, net, from less than