El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-10-12
FEW COUNTIES At
ALBUQUERQUE FAIR
Only Nine Out Of the % in
the State Are Rep
resented There.
n @. H. CIements.l

Albuquerque, y. NJ. Oct 12-There
is a very decided opinion among ex-
hibitOrs and patrons Of the New Mexico
state fair that If the fair is to be made
a fair and a success, there viii have
to be a radical change in the methods
of conducting the enterprise. AS an
exposition Of the agricultural, horti-
cultural livestock sheen breeding
eral resources Of the state the fair Of
1912 was a decided frost
There's a reason" those who are
protesting say, and they say further.
that the fair Of 1913, if one is held, will
be worse than this one If management
and methods are not changed. AS at
present conducted, they say that the
state fair, instead II being, as its name
indicates, a state institution, it is a
BernalillO county fair, to which all Of
the farmers and fruit, sheep and cattle
growers Of all other sections of the
state are urged to send exhibits at
their own expense to compete with the
market gardeners of BernalillO.
Few Counties Exhibit.
This year. of the 20 counties of the
state but nine R3de eXhibits-Luna,
Dona ana, Guadalupe, Torrance, san
Juan, Roosevelt, Mckinley, Valencia
and BernaIillO. Chaves and Eddy cOun-
ties, the great fruit and alfalfa coun-
ties Of the state, in the celebrated
PecOs valley, counties in which ROs-
well, Hagerman, Artesia, Carlsbad and
Malaga districts are located. made no
exhibits this year, nor did Quay cOun-
ty, celebrated for its dry farms, make
a showing.
The reason for this is said to be the
tendency Of the fair association to per-
init Bernalillo county to hog" all the
sWeepstake cups and purses by per
hitting market gardeners who grow
vegetables for the albuquerque mar
ket and who, it is said, make a prac-
tice OF growing q great variety of veg
etables for which there is no market,
purely for show purposes at the fair.
By so doing, it is said, they get a
great number Of blue, red, yellow and
green ribbons on stuff not generally
grown throughout the state, which on
points, gives all sweepstakes. cups and
purses to BernalillO.
A protest has been made to the
judges this year by all other exhibitors
against following the old practice.
The protest was made by Forest Nc
Ktnley, secretary Of the Mesilla Valley
Fair association, but the judges have
not yet indicated whether or not
precedent will be followed.
DOna Ana Has Big Exhibit.
OF the exhibits in agricultural and
horticultural han, that OF Bernalillo
county is the largest with that of DOna
Ana next, Guadalupe next and san
Juan next. The exhibits of Guadalupe
and san Juan are divided between dry
farming and irrigated land products,
and it would be hard for a novice to
tell which lot of fruit, vegetables or
forage was grown with or without arti-
fetal aid
The Guadalupe county exhibit is from
Indian Point ranch, part of which is
irrigated by means of pumps from UNI
derflOw and consists largely of canta-
loupes. watermelons, squash and other
vegetables though there is a good
showing of fruit. tomatoes, alfalfa corn
and root crops. T. c. Nisbet who is
superintendent Of the ranch and in
charge of the exhibit, has a collection
Of 20 varieties of native grasses grown
on the ranch
The san Juan county exhibit is main