Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-03-11

Every year, for the last seven years,
Cochise county has held an annual
lair. Each year the cry has been for
early organization of various bodies
and committees that have charge of
the arrangements for the fair. Every
year there has been a hope that the
premium lists could be compiled,
printed and mailed out to the exhib-
ttorS early in the season. Every year
an effort has been made to collect the
pledges for the fair fund before the
event was held.
Summing it all up, one can fairly
say that each year the attempts have
achieved something nearer success and
every year the Cochise county fair has
been bigger and better until last year.
Then there was a noticeable slump.
Many reasons were found for this, but
the chief reason, admitted by the fair
minded, was that the work of organ
izing the county for the fair was not
evenly apportiOned and the support
necessary was not given
The fair for 1913 was seriously
threatened recently But the people
of Cochise county do not want the
fair to be abandoned and survey of
the situation discloses that there is
plenty to keep it alive if that plenty
can but be properly organized The
demand this year is that if the fair
is held it be properly and efficiently
organized on q; business basis and that
it be organized now, in the month of
March, which is seven months before
the actual fair Wit be held
The men who have worked and wor-
ried in past years to put over the
creditable fairs that have been held
here have found that even starting
in May or June does not give time
for all the details that have to be
worked out. They have found that
without adequate management the fair
is lop-sided and does not hold up all
the way through as it should. They
have found that even when they give
large amount of their time to the
fair work men cannot do the job
justice if they have to devote part of
their time to their own private busi-
ness
Last year there was little that could
be said in criticism of the exhibits at
the fair. The agricultural exhibits
were many and varied and represented
a product of the soil as fine and as
rich as could be desired. The poultry
exhibit was the largest in the history
of the county There were more va
rieties Of livestock exhibited than ever
before. In the domestic science ex-
hibit there was much worth while
The exhibition was conmendable, but
in the other things that go to make
up a county fair there was lack
Country People Want Fair
Throughout the agricultural districts
of the county the people want the
fair. They take pride in the ribbons
their produce wins. They work and
wait all summer through the hot
growing season for the time to come
when they will drive to Douglas with
their prize crops and exhibit them.
The fair to them means just what
fair has to farmers all over the United
States for years and years. It means
big annual meeting, a chance to
exchange ideas, to look over the prod
ucts of the other sections of the
county and to renew and expand that
C41O11tloAdoul III dS4ACu1Ou1C OIId0 lido
been called the backbone of the
nation.
The farmers want their premium
lists SO that they can study them and
pick out the various things that they
can best produce to compete for the
ribbons If q, man is raising two
kinds Of potatoes and finds that the
premium list gives an award for only
one of the kinds he is raising he is
going to hoe that variety a bit more
than he does the other, not because
he wants that prize money but be-
cause he wants to show the other
farmers that he knows how to raise
potatoes. -
If a man has two different breeds
of chickens and finds that a special
award is to be made for one of these
breeds he is going to groom his birds
of that breed especially SO he wants
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