Rocky Ford enterprise., 1913-08-08
WOULD CUT ON
RACING EVENTS
And Expend More Money
for Premiums
FARMERS PROPOSITION
TO MAKE SUCCESSFUL FAIR
nembers of Otero Agricultural As
ISOLATION Enthusiastic Over the
Prospects for This Year

A well attended meeting of the
Otero County Agricultural association
was held Saturday afternoon.
In the absence of President Dye
the meeting was called to order by
Secretary of the Board OF Directors
J. NJ. Shaulis.
A letter was read from the editor
of the Philadelphia Farm Journal con-
graduating the association on their
vigorous and successful work along
agricultural lines and assuring them
that their work was known through
out the country, and expressing a
hope that the association would main
tain the pace in the future that 1t has
set in the past.
The subject for discussion was
what can we as farmers do to make
out Coming Fair and Watermelon
Day greater success than ever! and
the subject was opened by John Ed
gar, who made several suggestions
principally along the line of what
might be done by the directors to
make the fair greatdr success.
Among other things the speaker be
lieved that too much money was
spent tlC tiottihS 49,
thought that some of it should be dis
tributed in other departments. He
complimentcd the board of directors
on the prizes offered in the swine de-
partmcnt and concluded by advising
every farmer to bring everything pos
sble to the fair, which was the sure
way to make it greater success.
Frank Burke. Chester Johnson, J.
NJ. Shaulis, Allan Tcdman of Fow-
Ter. G. NJ. Coffin, r. Stapleton, Geo.
Todd and r. NJ. Powell were other
ed enthusiastic to make the coming
Arkansas Valley fair the greatest in
history. In fact there is more en-
thusiasm this year among the farm
ers than there has been for long
time.
association, c. ]. Cover and Jack
Crowley of the board of directors.
asked for the cooperation of the mem
bers of the agricultural association
and thanked the association for the
suggestions which had been made and
for the interest which the members
were showing
Representative o. w. West told OF
the visit of Senator Graham of Okla
homa to Otero county last Saturday
and of a trip taken with him, and stat
ed that the senator after the trip
made the remark that the grain, fruit
and forage crops were the best that
he had ever seen and that this part
of the valley came the nearest to his
idea OF the Garden OF Eden OF any
place that he had ever seen.
G. NJ. Hall spoke OF Crowley Coun-
tv day and hoped that every member
OF the agricultural association would
make an effort to attend. The pro-
posed trip, was enthusiastically taken
up by the members and 1t was de-
cided.
On the tenth of July registar was
opcned at the rooms of the Otcro
County Agricultural association and
since that time over one hundred peo-
pie from all over the country have
registered and the list is an interest
ing one.
Five hundred pieces of literature
have been placed in the automobiles
of tourists. Over two hundred let
tcrs of inquiry regarding Otero coun-
ty have been answered and the num-
Der OF inquiries js increasing with
each month. The work of the asso-
citation is being recognized not only
by all the leading papers of this stae.
but number of agricultural and 9th
er publications have asked for arti-
cles regarding the association work
and articles have already appeared in
Leslie's Weekly, The Earth, The
Western Farmer. Current Farm Top
les, The American Agriculturist and
several others. an dothers to appear
will be found in The Country Gen.
tleman. Judd's Farmer and in several
of the other farm journals.