Rocky Ford enterprise., 1915-09-17
EXHIBIT A
WORLD BEATER
Term Used When Describing
Our Display at State Fair
AGRICULTURAL AND
HORTICULTURAL PRODUCTS
Are the Best Ever Assembled In Any
County at ANY Time According
to Expert Testimony

to Expert Testimony
The finest county display of
agricultural and horticultural
products ever assembled in any
country at any time is conceded
by experts to be the display of
Otero county at the State Fair
this year.
A great portion of the display
was gro wn upon the demonstra-
ton farm of the Otero County
Agricultural association close 10
this city, and it requires for its
placing more than 5000 feet Of
floor and wall space. 1t is super
ior to the famous display which
captured the Hearst trophy cup
for Otero county and was award
ed first prize in world competition
in Chicago few years ago.
After the State Fair arrange
ments are being made to take the
display to the International Farm
Congress at Denver, and after
ward it will likely go TO San Fran
cisco and is considered as being
almost certain to capture first
prize in competition with the
world.
That Rocky Ford and Otero
county are we'll represented at the
State Fair in Pueblo this week is
conclusively shown by the follow
Jog from the Pueblo Chieftain of
Tuesday:
Altho Otero county has won so many
prizes in grains and grasses that it is out
of the competitive class this year. that
fact, however. has been no damper on
the county being generously represented.
Otero's display Of grains and grasses is
whole show by itself. 1t comprises
half hundred uniform frames 2HxzR
feet in size set off with gilded frame
and with background Of black cloth.
On this surface the grains including
stalks and heads. are displayed in clusters
three or four specimens to the frame.
OF grasses alone. native and foreign.
there are $50 varieties shown. 81 varie-
ties of wheat, barley and oats are shown.
81 varieties of thrashed grains. many OF
rye. millet. corn. Kaffir, fax. hemp-in
fact. most everything that grows.
All the grains practically were grown
on the Otero county experiment farm
by W. W. Kerney. the county agricul-
turst. Each year he experiments with
grains of all sorts to ascertain il they
are adapted to the soil.
Here's a new kind Of oat we tested
this year." remarked Mr.. Kerney. who
not only grew all the grains himself but
arranged the exhibit which is a work OF
art in itself. He pointed out a specimen
with luxurious growth Of heads sur
mounting stalks 4 feet long. That's the
New Senator and its yield was 1924
bushels to the acre. There is a new
kind of Russian hard wheat which we
tried out because some Of the Russian
farmers in our county said it had been
so successfully grown in Russia. 1t is
called the Philippe wheat and made
showing of 20 bushels to the acre."
For the first time in Otero county. Mr..
Kerney tried growing hemp this year and
the result demonstrated by the specimen
on display was marvellous. 1t almost
forgot to quit growing. The stalks are
10 feet high. OF several experiments
with various kinds of millet, the German
appeared to have the edge on the whole
field, the heads being excessively long.
averaging inches. Para grass planted
last spring stands feet high. A novelty
| was produced in the experiment with
stock peas-the Garbanzo clipped pea.
| The result was an excellent stand, the
peas being one pea to the pod, about the
size of a peanut kernel, and when roas-
| ted were found to taste very much like
peanuts. or the "a kinds of wheat ex-
perimented with this year 80 varieties
are shown in the display.
These by no means represents all the
experimental growing we have done,"
remarked Mr.. Kerney. "All the seed
we plant doesn't prove successful. II
we find certain varieties are not adapted
to the soil. we discard them and keep
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