Arizona republican., 1917-11-16

corn, sweet potatoes. and nearly every variety of vegetable known to the tiller of the soil. That county claims to lead all others in it's alfalfa, also alfalfa seed. Its fruit includes pomegrnates, peaches, quinces. apples, pears, grapes, figs, almonds, oceans and citrus fruits including oranges, grape fruit, lemons, llmes, tangerines, melons of every Kind. in fact they can raise everything In Yuma county that can be grown anywhere else in the state
 Final County Pleasing
 Final county has an extraordinary display and Davis is proud of it. He has complete replica of all the other counties combined, or we might call 1t complete dislpay. Pinal opened the prize winning by taking the first and second prizes on Eth cling peaches, followed by first on the best tomatoes in the state. Prizes on quinces and sweet potatoes were also captured. There is a general view of Pinal coun- tvs agricultural district backing the display. It was in Pinal that the dis covery that the Egyptian long staple cotton could be raised in Arizona and bale of this product is on exhibition. There is also Miss Pinal and MT. Hoover, with their dialogue. Ward Davis evidently put as much pep in his booth as he did in the pacifists at Washington last fall.
 Graham's Fruit Marvellous
 Graha mcounty's fruit display is a marvel for beauty. There are apples peaches and pears, honey and canned vegetables. They have captured ' prizes on apples. All kinds of vege- tables are to be seen. One sweet po- tato weighing Is pounds. There is one farmer in that county who bought some land at S250 an acre last year and planted 1t to sweet potatoes and raised 10000 pounds to the ere and sold the product for S900 per acre. This shows pretty good profit in agriculture in Graham county, especially in the Gila valley. Alfalfa is one of the county's big industries.
 Cochise Display Artistic
 Cochise county has an artistic as well as interesting display, and every thing reminds one of the war measures concerning food, and where they could not attract attention in any other way they have many placards displayed calling attention to the needs of the country. They have very large canon made of milo maize. The fruit display is exceptionally good, and would have been better had the railroad not de- layed many of the exhibits in transit The melons and squashes are enormous. This county has both the dry farming and the irrigated system. They pro- duce beets Is inches in length and 24 inches in circumference. The apples carried off many first prizes. The largest yellow bellflour apples ever seen in the state fair is to be seen here.
 Coconino Potatoes
 Coconino county has as it's principal feature potatoes and their slogan is dis played in large letters Eat More Po- tatoes." This county carried off first prizes and ? second prizes on potatoes alone. They raise all kinds of grain, beans, tobacco and potatoes, and more potatoes.
 Navajo Apples Excellent
 Navajo has perhaps the finest dis play of apples, showing nearly 25 va rieties, among which Is the 16-ounce, one specimen measuring near , inches in diameter. The vegetables include the general variety. The display of beans and grain, especially wheat and oats is simply grand. They have their own flour mill and a sample of the home product is on exhibition. They do all dry farming in this county.
 Greenlee and Gila Display
 Greenlee county has a small but creditable display and the vegetables worthy of special mention are corn, cauliflower and apples.
 Gila county has its first display of agricultural products and very fine one it is. There are beans, squashes, potatoes, corn, cabbage, apples, and pears. Corn that will measure 10 and 12 feet in height This county iS cOm- ing to the front in dry farming.
 Yavapai Display Varied
 Yavapai county has the most diversi- fled display it has ever shown at the state fair. It is difficult to say which single product deserves the most credit as every department deserves praise. Its fruit display is most excellent as is also the vegetables. They do both dry and irrigating farming.
 Apache Dry Farming
 Apache county has a small display of products that are raIseu py the dry