Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-09-25
Agricultural Exhibits
Are Worth Cost of Fair;
EueryoneShouldSee Them

oay ne would nave TO rrlgaCe IT,
That day never came. The giant
plant with its dozens of great squashes
lying about it like giant boulderS in a
water course, thrived throughout the
summer with never a drop OF mois-
ture, and only when late frost
nipped it did it give up it's fight 20
cloth the world in massive squash
leaves and vines and great, golden
hearted fruit.
People who know about vegetables
and fruit will tell you that apples
grow best in states like New York
and Ohio and Oregon where there
are cold winters and where the trees
are planted on hillSideS for the most
part Few outside Arizona would
ever believe that this state produces
finer and better apples than Oregon
or Ohio or New York. This is an
other reason why men and women
work and give money to make the
Cochise county fair possible year
after year.
Reports so far have indicated very
clearly just how great an exhibit of
apples there will be at the seventh
annual Cochise county fair, but it is
safe to say that the visitor will be
able to see at this fair the living
proof that this state, and CochiSe
county especially can produce apples
such as the lovers of the beautiful
fruit have dreamed of but have never
before seen.
CochiSe county is trimmed about
with great mountains and down in
the gorges and canyons which make
up the folds between the high hills
there are little running streams and
along these streams and up the
sides of the ridges have been planted
number of apple trees. There are
some very extensive apple orchards
in certain sections of this county
and from these orchards, bathed with
dew during the summer and with
nists rising from waterfalls and COW
cred with snow during the winter
months come the finest apples ever
seen. They are larger than ordinary
apples from the recognized apple
raising states and they have finer
texture, more beautiful blush to
their skins and a more appetizing
flavor.
Although the apples and the
squashes create two of the big SEN
sations of the fair now, this fair was
considered a fine thing long before
the squash had been introduced from
Egypt and when many of the boost
ers had not thought very much OF
the apple as an exhibit. There are
other things Comes again to Arizona
and to CochiSe county a crop which
is supposed to be native OF Mis-
souri,, Kansas, Illinois and Ohio. This
crop is corn. Who would think that
corn would grow well in Arizona?
No one would think that this state
was especially adapted to the raising
of corn and yet such varieties OF
corn as Mexican June and Sacaton
June corn, as we'll as Dry Climate
varieties of both white and yellow
dent have called forth in this state
expressions of arnazement from the
worlds most noted corn culturistS.
At the fair this year the visitor
will see corn stalks IL feet high with
a fine growth of fodder and a sturdi-
ness ordinarily seen in some OF the
more Stunted varieties of dwarf corn.
There will be ears of corn at this
fair as much as IS inches long.
These ears will be filled out from
one end to the other with the very
choicest Of huge evenly matched ker-
nels of yellow grain. 1t is good corn.
1t is the sort of crop that one
might expect to see grown on an eX-
perimental farm back in Kansas and
set up as an example for the farm
ers to strive toward.
The visitor must remember that
the exhibits to be seen at the Co.
cnise county fair are not grown on
experiment stations, that for the
most part they are grown by men
who are not expert soil culturists
and in many cases have never titled
the soil until the past few years.
This corn, in many cases, is grown
without irrigation and with very little
rainfall to aid it in its growth. Lastly
and of most amazing, startling i'm
portance, this corn, the squashes and
the hundred other prize winning crops
which will be displayed here and
which would win the prizes at any
exhibition in the world are raised
in a valley which was called by the
first white men who owned it, "a
barren desert"