Rocky Ford enterprise., 1916-02-11
AGRICULTURAL
ASSOCIATION
Holds Annual Meeting and
Elects New Officers
MUCH GOOD WORK
DURING PAST YEAR
According to Report of the Secre'
tary of the Otero County Aeri-
cultural Association


The annual meeting of the Otero
County Agricultural association
was held Saturday with a good at
tendance. The meeting was called
to order by President o. W. West
and the report of the secretary
was read and adopted and ordered
filed.
Treasurer III. A. Ball being alb
sent, verbal statement concern
ing the finances was made by Dir
ector G. F. Burke, who stated that
there was sufficient sum in the
treasury to meet all outstanding
accounts.
The election of officers resulted
as follows: ..
President. A. Sprengle
Vice President. NJ. Shaulis
Treasurer-H. A. Ball
Directors. M. Shaulis. @. b.
Sherwood, @. F.Burke, Frederick
Noble, }. Edward Gauger.
The subject committee will be
announced at the next meeting Of
the associ alton, Feb. 10Th.
Following is the report of the
secretary:
While the year of 1915 has been
peculiar one in the history of the associa-
tion. the year as whole has been filled
with results Of which everyone interested
in the association may well feel proud
and careful analysis of the things accom-
pl.shed will show that the directors have
by no means been idle.
twas impossible for the county COM
missioners to allow the association quite
as much last year as has been the GUS
tom, as they felt obliged to use some Of
the advertising money in other ways. and
while this made our income somewhat
less our expenses on the other hand were
greater than in the past few years. owing
to it having been necessary to make
more of preparation for exhibits which
the past year covered period of 25 days
while the usual period is only about IL
days, and the fact that the cost of main
tainance was correspondingly larger
Exhibits were made at the Arkansas
Valley and State fairs and at the Dry
Farming Congress with the usual sueSes Z,
the exhibit making fine showing at the
Dry Farm Congress in the classes in
which irrigated products were allowed to
exhibit.
So much had been said regarding Colo
rado as state where corn could not be
successfully grown the directors thought
it best for OIero county to demonstrate
the falsity of such claims, with the result
that in the experimental garden of the
association "a varieties were raised.
many of the varieties being the equll of
those raised in the corn belt and no ex-
hibit ever made by the association has
attracted more attention, and favorable
mention has been made in a large number
of farm papers regardicg it.
A small pamphlet was prepared and
distributed at the Dry Farm Congress
and in all over $500 pieces of literature
pertaining to the county have been given
out during the year and l6 articles per-
tanning to the work of the association
have appeared in different farm papers.
Seventeen meetings of the club were
held at which the average attendance
was fully as large as in any previous
year and the rooms were used for SO
public and committee meetings. Farm
help to the number of nearly $50 were
furnished to the farmers and nearly 500
letters and inquiries have been answered.
Last spring the government establish
ed branch Of the agricultural depart
ment here for investigation in the beet
sugar industry and the two gentlemen
stationed here are collecting a fund OF
information which will prove of the
greatest value to every farmer, and it Is
hoped and expected that from now on
the farmers will avail themselves of the
valuable help which they can derive in
this manner, and there is every prospect
that added interest will be manifested
during the coming year by all the farm
ers in the county.
The cooperative creamery which has
Just closed its first year Of business and
which has been most successful is an off
spring of the efforts of this association of
which everyone must feel justly proud,
and it is at least partly owing to the