The Clayton news. (Clayton, N.M.) 19??-1954, 1915-10-23
UNION FOLKS GEL PREMUMs
County Exhibit Attract Much Fa-
Vorable Attention at New Mexico
State Fair in Albuquerque.


siderable attention and let the peo-
pie who visited the fair know some
thing of Union county and her re-
sources. The exhibit was in charge
of C. p. Talbot and R. NJ. Olbeter,
who also acted as special correspon-
dents for The News and have fur
nished our readers with the follow
ing interesting story of the exhibits
and attractions.
On account of the delay in getting
agricultural exhibits, we were late in
getting TO the fair and arranging
our exhibit, but had it in place be-
fore many visitors arrived at the
grounds. There was a very large at
tendance. and excellent exhibits
from practically every county in the
state, the fruit from Eddy, SanJuan,
Lincoln and number of other coun-
ties being simply wonderful, and also
a large amount of mineral exhibits
from various counties, among them
a sheet of copper from Grant coun-
ty weighing 700 poundsfWe had very
little fruit in our exhibit, and not
near as much other products as we
should have had if the people of
the county generally had taken suf1i-
cient interest in advertising our re-
sources TO bring a sample of their
prize crops to be sent to the fair.
However, our exhibit attracted ia
vorable comment from the Albu-
querque papers, and thousands of
visitors who looked it over and asked
many questions in regard to our
part of the state. Great numbers of
people with whom we talked who
have lived in New Mexico for years
were very greatly surprised at the
wonderful showing made.
(Another thing which produced
much favorable comment for our
county was the school exhibit, show
ing work done by different grades
in the Clayton schools. Also the
fine hand made saddle sent by Max
Gonzales attracted much attention.
Our products were in direct COM
petition with the irrigated sections,
but we took prizes as follows:
On seed sent by the Herzstein
Seed Company:
Feterita First Prize
Red Kaflir Corn First Prize
Double Dwarf Maize Second Prize
Red Standard Maize Second Prize
White Kaflir Corn Third Prize
Tepary Beans Second Prize
u. b. Alexander took second prize
for best ten ears of Red River corn,
and third prize for best ten turnips,
N<Bender Bros. took third prize for
best bundle red kaflir and also for
best bundle white kafiir.
LMr. Messenger took third prize for
best ten heads of feterita, and third
prize for best bunch of celery.
Mr.. Edmondson took second prize
for best five pound bundle of wheat.
u. A. Gregory took third prize for
best bundle of Sudan grass, and Mr..
Bangeter took second prize for larg-
est and best head of cabbage.
The prizes were taken in direct
competition with irrigated products.
We displayed a sign saying all our
products were grown without irri-
cstiOn, and also yhad a large card
with the record of our rainfall as
taken by Dr. Charlton, the govern
u'cnt observer at Clayton, for the
list three years, showing a total of
1914 inches for 1913. 22.32 inches
r. 1914, and 2O.55 inches for the
rst nine months Of 1915. We also
lave out hundreds of cards with the
rainfall record by months, for the
st three years, and called atten-
IN to the fact that most of our
rainfall came during the growing
s'ason Of the year, when most need
Il. and that we did not need TO ir-
igate to raise bumper" crops.
a train load of homeseekers and
ricultural experts from Chicago
I'd surrounding country made the
fair a visit on Saturday, and were
reatly surprised at the splendid ex-
bits and showing made.
There were no cash prizes offered
r1r the individual agricultural ex-
ibits, but the prizes were given for
ne three best county displays
Roosevelt county got the first prize