Weekly journal-miner., 1919-10-22

play at the Fair.
 Right along below Dr. Bartlett's
 department were others which show ed what cooperation in farm life can do. The Navajo county exhibit and
 the Little Chino Farms exhibit were
 grouping of the best things from
 many farms, selected with care and
 forethought and arranged to form full and harmonious illustration of
 what each region could do in the
 way of farm products.
 The Little Chino Farms exhibit has
 a special lesson to farmers for it was the result of farm club work which
 united the whole community in farm
 work and brought to all the advice
 and assistance of farm experts and farm literature from our agricultural
 experiment stations.
 Before the opening of the big Fair these up-to-date farmers held a
 neighborhood Fair of their own to select and judge the stuff they wished
 to take to the larger Fair. In that
 way they really took their best; they
 had time to select exhibits of uni
 form quality, and they had the advice
 and criticism of neighbors and farm
 experts and learned beforehand what
 other people thought of their stuff.
 Speed the day when every country community in Yavapai will have its
 own neighborhood club, a club for
 men and women and families, for pleasure and for education, and most
 of all for cooperation along every possible line of neighborhood work and life
 It wont come soon, we country folk have lived in isolation so long that we don't know how to do team work" We have met our problems and troubles alone so long, and con quercd them or been conquered by them, that we are bit unfriendly to the idea that two heads are better than one"-in fact we are the most self-centered people in the world and, as our secretary of agriculture says, we are the hardest people in the world to organize-which only means this pathetic fact-that farm fife has for ages been so hard and lonely that we farm people are like a lonely child, we have to learn to play with other folks and to work and plan in groups instead of alone-and 1t isn't easy, but little at a time cooperation will reach every farm-for co-opera- ton is just that larger democracy for wh:-'. our boys have been fighting l and dying overseas.
 Just one good look would convince anyone at the Fair that Yavapai and her northern sisters are the legitimate apple region of the Southwest-des- tined to be as famous as the Ozarks. The entire fruit display was splendid | but the apples were finest Of all
 Probably many a visitor who ad- mired the great variety and fine qual- ity of corn shown passed on without a vision of the fact that with a little pushing Yavapai would be the seed corn center of Arizona, if not of ! much larger area. Seed corn is much greater problem than most peo- pie know; even some pretty good farmers think most any corn is good . enough to plant and that good soil and water enough will make fine crop from any sort of seed.
 This is the biggest mistake ever the future of the crop lies mostly in the seed, and last year government experts tested and rejected about half the seed corn supply of so great corn-growing state as Kansas. Ii was found by actual test that much good looking grain did not have strong enough gerninating power and vitality to sprout and develop crop.
 We at Orchard Ranch know how lar Yavapai grown seed beats that of even famous corn sections - every year we try out some of the promis- ng varieties from other states and we always find that the second crop i of such seed is 50 per cent or more better than the first. For instance one planting of Bloody Butcher corn came from the leading corn grower of state famed for that variety yet it was very poor as compared 1 with what we developed from it by successive plantings.
 Another year ought 10 sec such a corn show at the Northern Arizona State Fair as is held in the corn re- zion of the corn belt states. am hoping that some of our public spirited business men who have the interests of both Yavapai and the Fair deeply at heart will offer d special premium for corn, a premium arge enough to make it worth while for farmers to plan ahead for this This is the way the great corn shows of the East were ,tarted-aud incidentally the way that certain states were pui on the seed