The Ordway new era., 1916-07-21
Fairs and Products
(From Sugar City Gazette.)

| The officials OF the Crowley county
fair have announced that 1t will be
held on August IS to September 2,
inclusive. That does not end the
matter, by any means; it is up TO
Crowley county to make good with
exhibits that will stimulate rivalry
to produce things uncommonly good.
| All apples are developments OF the
,.love apple; new varieties of fruits
and flowers are shown every year
/ Let Crowley county have the best oi
everything that can be produced
here. Burbank of Santa Rosa, Cal,
has astonished the world by show
ing what can be done by careful Sc
lection and propagation of plants.
His achievements are marvellous, but
they are the result of infinite care
in selection and tireless patience in
producing the best of what he
wanted. Most of us would walk
through cactus, avoiding their
thorns. but Burbank grappled with
the cactus, stripped it of its thorns.
and gave US a variety of thornless
cactus that is used for forage.
Blackberry bushes have also been
stripped of their thorns. Seedless
oranges and seedless grapes have
been produced, probably by invert-
ing the graft so that the sap flows
the wrong way. Blythe, on the
Colorado river, has seedless dates; il
they can be propagated seedless
dates will be valuable TO arid coun-
tries in which they are the staple
should select the best grains of the
best ears of corn for planting. and
the county fair encourages and urges
him to do so. Last year the presi-
dent of the British and American
company brought from
South Africa some melon seeds and
them through Imperial !
county, Cal, for the public good. |
Should the variety prove to be better
than the varieties of canteloupe |
grown here seed can be easily pro-
cured and distributed here. For |
the canteloupe was un
known except in the. vicinity of a
castle in Italy. but it is now a fav-
Drite almost everywhere.
Financially, nothing is of more
Importance than concert of action.
For years Fresno. Cal, raised good
grapes that drugged the market; the
'armers then agreed to raise more
grapes for raisins so that they could
ship in carload lots. Fresno now
averages a trainload-notc carload
If raisins for each day in the year
and has the world for a market
This county is vitally interested in
sugar beets. and it Is to the interest
)f all that those beets should be Of
he highest possible sugar content.
Let the best seed proeurabie be
planted: it costs no more, requires
no more labor to produce the su-
perior grade. Let it he done; let |
the farmers so swamp the sugar fac
tory with high grade beets that ~ en- !
the added facilities Will be worked |
to the limit. TLe beet ICIt aud pulp |
in limitless Quantities can be used
to fatten stuct OF the fines, grades
as well as n. scrII -tork. one Of
the oldest and nest breed of huuS is
the mu.e fOJ. 1r 81 lid hoof variety,
and it should be ia Crowley county
alfalfa ~ l. becaIse its hoofs are
i
variety into which the devils entered
when they ran down a steep hill
and perished in the sea" Very early
pioneers asserted that they found,
killed and ate mule foot hogs in
Colorado mountains; but they could
not show" them to the Missourians,
and the variety became as extinct
probably asthe dodo, a pair of which
would now be worth millions. Be-
ing unprepared for defense, it was
eIterminated; only egg-shells re-
main to remind us of the most val
uable fowl. Japan exhibited pheas-
ants (chickens are descendants)
with tail feathers twelve feet long.
Iney belong to the emperor but they
are not SO valuable, intrinsically, as
! Lady Eglantine,' a prize hen worth
100000 because of her egg-laying
! qualities. If you have anything use
ful SHOW" 1t at the fair; II you have
nothing useful you are guilty.
/ The attention of the Farmers I'm.
proyement association is called L tc
the cottonwood trees that should bt
supplanted Immediately by pecans
which thrive in semi-arid regions
I The nuts could be planted or carload
lots Of young trees might be i'm
) ported from western Texas. wher,
the crop of nuts is sure and profita
BILE. On account Of the tap-roo