Semi-weekly herald., 1911-09-28
La PLATA COUNTY WON
PRIZES AT STATE FAIR

Geo. N. Raymond, J. w. Turner
VIM. Graf and wife and Lou Smith
who attended the state fair in charge
of the La Plata exhibit, were among
"a returning passengers last even.
ing, County Horticultural Inspector E
S. Taylor and S. S. Merry arriving
Saturday evening. The gentlemen re.
turn well satisfied with the treatment
accorded them and the part La Plata
county took at the fair, the sbeaf
wheat and oat exhibit being the most
attractive displayed, while the fruit
proved a marked attraction. With
only one entry on sheaf spring oats
La Plata won first premium over all
other counties. The county also won
first place on spring sheaf wheat, dur
UNI wheat and spetz against all other
counties, and second on turkey red
winter. Mr.. Smiths dry farming dis
play was by far the best in the build
ing and he won premiums on every
thing exhibited. In competing against
the state on plate fruit the La Plata
apples were picked before fully grown
and colored in most cases and could
not successfully compete against the
lower attitudes of Mesa, Delta, FIRE.
mont and Montezuma, for quality and
fine looking fruit La Plata was given
third prize in the district comprised
of Fremont, Montezuma, Pueblo, and
Otero counties, although Pueblo and
Otero had five times as large dis
play but the quality was lacking. The
display of grasses were equal to any
thing at Pueblo but most of the en-
tries were barred for reason that the
rules called for only fifty stems,
whereas most of the punches had sew
eral hundred. La Plata was given
third premium on first, second and
third alfalfa cuttings. In the indi-
vidual collection of meadow grasses,
4. Mrs. O. l.. Smallwood had the finest
collection but was given only sec
end prize, Otero winning first on
display collected from over the coun-
ty, the judges not being informed of
We difference. Altogether the La
Plata people are well pleased. In ad-
dition to the above mentioned gentle
men, Frank Eldredge and wife spent
two days at the fair, Sheriff Tim Nc
Cluer one afternoon, George Logan
one day and j. d. Adams part of Fri
day afternoon and Saturday. The Pue-
Star-Journal of Tuesday contain
ed the following review of the La
Plata exhibit.
La Plata county mas tastefully ar
ranged exhibit and credit is due the
state fair committee from that coun-
ty for the attractive showing La Plata
has made. George N. Raymond is
chairman of the La Plata county eX-
hibit and he talks enthusiastically Of
what La Plata can do. A feature
of the exhibit is stool of alfalfa
which is six feet and two inches tall
and contains 300 stems. This is easily
the finest stool of alfalfa ever grown
in Colorado if not in the world. 1t
is from a field four years old and it
is claimed the entire four-acre field is
the best field of alfalfa ever grown
in the United States. Millet, grains,
hay, grasses and alfalfa in the La
Plata county exhibit all look good and
besides the county has most credit
able fruit exhibit. The oats grown by
dry farming on the farm of l.. Smith
o. La Plata county are among the
best of the fair The La Plata coun-
ty potatoes can not be surpassed. A
curiosity of the exhibit is double
sun flower which has two faces grow
sng from one back. La Plata coun-
ty is showing some of the clue corn
which was propagated from grains of
corn found in the old homes Of the
cliff dwellers and which scientists
, stated must have been stored for A.
900 years in the granaries of the old
cliff dwellers. On being plated some
Of the corn grew and nov it is com
lntn to La Plata co"n.Y. The br't
C IN was fou nj in the big cliff riiIs
IN Mancos cans, wher' old castles of
a IL ousand rooms arc cr,lmbiing away
AID are the ASS records Of race
wibch has Pc. shed from the earth
and left scant list =.
There are SAMPLES If ores from the
/, cas- mine included in the La Plata
exhibit and S. S. Merry is showing
a medicine made from roots and herbs
which grow in La Plata county and
fSm a source of revenue. The prod
ucts from La Plata county fruit farms
we're grown without the use of smudge
pots. AS sample of the delightful
climate bunch of roses is shown
which were clipped from bunch in
La Plata county growing at an ele-
= walton of 1000 feet and producing
blooms every month from April until
October in the open air.