Weekly journal-miner., 1919-08-27
(BY SHARLOT M. HALL)
What Our State Agricultural Experts
 Can Do For Us.

state agricultural college whose work is of keenest interest to everyone in Yavapai county, and of particular value to every farmer and cattleman It is to be regretted that their com ing was not widely advertised for a long enough time beforehand that all of our country people could not have planned to take advantage of their presence.
 These were the men conducting the range course in stock growing and feeding, subjects of prime import ance to Yavapai county. It is to be hoped that many of these men will return during our Northern Arizona State Fair and that more of our country people will have chance to meet them.
 Since the whole world is up against a food shortage country life and country problems are commanding attention from the very keenest minds of the age, and the best scientific knowledge and most practical busi- ness experience is combining in the effort to find the best methods for food production and for making farm and country life as pleasant and as profitable as other lines of Il- dustry.
 was born on a Western cattle ranch; l have lived on a typical ranch in Yavapai county since lS82-il there si any problem a rancher can be uG against which I have not already met know that it will come along in due time. We have met it all-drouth low prices, isolation, small capital scant working equipment-evcrythne which the typical pioneer family has to meet.
 Out of my personal experience have come to know that the deepest and most serious question in the betterment of country life is not more capital or higher prices or better marketing methods-though all these count-but willingness on the part o country people to accept new way: that have been proven to be better than the old-some desire to know the results of science as applied tc farm life and work, and little readi ness to meet half way all of tho things that might make life nor, pleasant and successful.
 Here in the Southwest nearly all O our country people are of pionee stock, men and women who wer' born on the frontier far from larg centers of population and from op portunities for education and busi ness training Many, like myself graduated out of the log school hous into the university of Hard Knocks, and didn't get even a 1ooll-in at tn easy side of life or learning.
 This experience has bred in ou country people not only a fine self reliance which is worth more tha money in the bank, but also a sell suficiency which costs money ou- O the bank. It is what makes the aver age farmer make fun of book farm ing" and refuse to believe that it possible for anyone to teach him any thing about growing a crop of cor or fattening a beef steer.
 When Arizona was a pioneer regio we ranchers had to get our seed cor from some neighbor and treat black leg in our stock by guess and thi made us come 10 feel in time that n one knew any more about such thing than we had learned on our isolate farms and cattle ranges. We wer willing, maybe, to believe what som neighbor told Us as to his own es perience, but we got mad if any ma paid by the government came to ou ranches and tried to tell Us what Ina been learned by scientific e1pcr meuting.
 Slow and patient work on the pal of the department of agriculture Ina overcome some of this attitude bt much of it still remains. You wi ind that the farmer or stockman wh welcomes the visits of a state C United States experts is either tr younger man who has had som knowledge of such work through til schools or an exceptional man wh has in some way seen that certai methods bring better results an prices.
 It would be a good thing for Ar zona if our state agricultural and liv, stock experts could go all over th state and speak in every county ; least twice a year Better acquain ancc would bring better understand ing and overcome prejudice W could have here a splendid cooper; ton of country and agricultural co 1egc which would be of greatest valu to both.
 Asking Our State Experts
 To Help Us.
 find that very few of my countr friends know that we are all mor than welcome 10 ask any of our stat livestock or farm men 10 help u5 ol ,.-,+r data on auH subject n their lin