Arizona republican., 1913-11-09
YAVAPAI WINS
 SECOND, YUMA THIRD
Largest and Most Diversi- fled Farmers Exposition Ever Gotten Together in State-MOre Than Seven Thousand Entries

Maricopa county won the grand county prize in the agricultural eX- hibit this year with Yavapai county second and Yuma third. Last year Yavapai carried away the first prize but fell this year before the mag nificent display made by the Elm pire county of the state. Yuma was third, but close one at that both years. The judges for the agricul- tural exhibit this year were w. H. Lawrence. agriculturalist at the Uni versity, J. W. Jerome of the Verde valley and Prof A. M. McOmie of the experiment station farm here. Their work this year was harder than that of any previous year oW- ing to the many more entries that were made by the various counties and the larger varieties of the Vari- ous fruits and vegetables that were entered. The Agricultural building was crowded from daylight to dark by visitors viewing the magnificent product of the field and farm from all section of Arizona that had been gathered at great expense at the sac rifice of much time and money by the men who are more interested possibly in the upbuilding of Arizona than any others-the actual farmers. |
 The fact that Maricopa, Yavapai and Yuma with their splendid eX- hibits ran away with the county prizes does not mean for minute that these were the only counties that were represented There were dry farm products and irrigated pro- ducts from every county in Arizona beside, and in many cases these eX- hibits while not obtaining the prizes, | were so close to it as to be worthy ! of special and honorable mention, in fact the judges themselves were more than pleased with the displays made by the counties of Navajo, Apache. | Pinal, Pima. Gila, Greenlee and Co., chise. Santa Cruz had no exhibit in this department, but had a good one in the mining building to make up for it.
 Tn judging and marking this year the judges mentioned above had to handle, taste and examine more than seven thousand exhibits, of which nearly a thousand were from Mari copa county alone. This took a great deal of work and the completion of the gigantic task was not completed until the last day of the fair. All day long of each day of the fair be- ginning on Monday as soon as the exhibits were in place, the assistants from the various counties began talk ! ing exhibits one by one to the judges stand in the center of the main pa ssa geway, and there in full view of the OnlOOkers the tests were made.
 Maricopa County
 Never before in the history of the fair has there been such an exhibit from Maricopa county as was gath cred this year This was done chief ly through the tireless energy of P. AepH of Tempe, one of the most en- thusiastic and expert agriculturalists in the entire state. In addition to this MT AepH is a man of dis tinguished courtesy and unfailing good humor who delighted all through the week in explaining to the visit ors the merits of the great Salt River valley and the excellence of the pro- ducts that were gathered in the building appearing more pleased to show an especial good variety of his neighbors than his own. None the less hardworking and efficient in the Maricopa exhibit were P. L Edson of the Farmers Institute, and the Halls. father and sons, and their several assistants.
 One of the striking things about the exhibit was the sign. Along the ceiling of the building cotton was hung and this was built in with milo maize and sorghum heads the words "Maricopa County Exhibit Down in front of this was seventy five varieties of sacked grains that had been gathered from farmers of the valley, while fruits and vege- tables of every variety were profuse- ly yet artistically placed on plants or nunberlesS little shelves.
 Tempe was we'll represented with the date orchard exhibit that was placed elsewhere in the building be- cause of the amount of room the whole exhibit took up. Chandler had a room made entirely of cotton in which a cotton gin was working in- cessantly for the edification of the visitors. Munger Brothers had the Olive House as usual, and then there was an immense annex to the rear door of the building where the a1- falfa and shocked grains and heavier vegetables were placed. Maricopa made such a showing that advocates are easily found demanding a build
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