Arizona republican., 1913-06-09
FUNDS FOR
 SUMMER FAIR
Committee Is Working Ac- lively to Make Event Greatest Ever, But Needs More Support to Accom- DliSh This End

The committee form the Maricopa | County Farmers Institute board of 1 directors, handling the subscriptions for the holding of the second annual id-summer fair at the city hall plaza on July 10 and II. reported yesterday that sufficient funds have been pro- missed to insure the holding of the fair but that not enough has been pledged to carry out the plans which would make the affair the greatest ever held by a similar body. The subscription campaign is therefore to be continued to the end that the necessary funds may soon be secured. The benefit accruing to the section from the holding of such fair has been made apparent in a hundred diff ferent ways since the first exposition 1 held last year. Today there is a l spirit of rivalry among the producers l of the valley which had not previously l existed and there is promise of ] showing of valley products that would | never have been possible had it not l been for the impetus given in the | matter of raising agricultural pro- l Iucts just a little better than any ] thing brought from the soil before.
 l Incidentally practically every far ! ner in this section is becoming in l crested in what his neighbor is doing l m it has made neighbors of producers | living many miles from each other. A | man raising melons for exhibition pur- l poses and who feels that he is rapidly ! rounding into shape some prize stock l wonders what another Inan Wo-<lnS 10 the same end is accomplishing. This | means that the general trend is to- 1 ward a betterment of the general crop ! Among the farmers. since the Visi 1 of Levi Chubbock, representative oI the department of agriculture to th' | valley there has been a great deal O | interest shown in the proposition ad I vanced bv w. $. Humbert, and eX l plotted bv MT Chubbock, to secur the services of a farm advisor It ha l heen shown that man fully compe tent to undertake the work propose
 -an be secured and that the entir | plan will not cost more than $500
 annually. Of this amount, MT. Chub book has assured the farmers, the de A partment of agriculture will be wilhn ! to provide $1200. MT Humbert an | the farmers interested believe that tn l board of county supervisors may D prevailed upon to provi'- the ada tionaI $500 necessary to carry ot 1 the project
 In a general way the plan calls fc lthe detailing to the Salt River va l lev of an expert agriculturist Wh Twin be known as a farm advisor, las he is now commonly referred t 2 farm doctor" His territory wi extend to all farms within radil
 of ten miles He would visit II
 various farms learn the nature 1.-the products being raised and the call upon the farmer for the allot
 l ment of a little square of ground | perhaps an acre or half upon Whlc
 he will agree to raise a crop Of u
 same class products as that tf
 owner of the farm is planting.
 In the cultivation of this little trac
 the farm advisor will employ his oW methods and at harvest time con
 parison of the crops will be mac
 with those of the farmer. TT
 methods and at harvest time con
 parison of the crops will be mao ( with those of the farmer. TT { methods employed will be fully e2 { plained to the farmer It is planne { to have scores of these little eXper ]! mental tracts under cultivation.
 On certain days of the week u } farm advis pr would be in his offit in Phmoenix ready from early morr { ing until eight o'clock to answer q ] questions relative to farm method { that may be asked of him.
 This plan, MT Humbert and f
 farmers generally believe would r' ? suit in the material benefit to tF E farmers and the elevation Of the CT ol
 of the valley to high standard.