Weekly journal-miner., 1919-11-05
(BY SHARLOT M. HALL)

things make up the prosperity of Yavapai county-and every one ol them full of pep" if you look for it.. Every one of them alive and grow ing-even to poultry There is a man in Prescott who has a card catalogue of over 800 Arizonans who grow good poultry-a lot of them in Yayapai and when the rest of us want to know where we can get blue-blooded fowls or eggs ill proper season a five minutes talk with Frank CornweIT at the court house will put us farther along than reading a bushel of cata- logues.
 If you think just poultry is a mighty small thing to talk about just let your thoughts run back to the most popular exhibit at the recent i Fair-or forward to your Thanksgiv- ing dinner Sunday is visitors day" at Orchard Ranch and the first Sun day in November happened to be an unexpected and impromptu poultry day"-everybcdy who ,came-till the front yard looked like the annex to a popular garage-talked poultry-and Thanksgiving dinners. The big bronze gobbler, who wears a brass bell to add to his natural vanity, tangled that ornament wildly and struck out for the lower end of the orchard-talk about Thanksgiving dinners seemed to get on his nerves All of his fam fly followed into hiding, and even King Solomon, the lordly peacock who IS so busy growing new tail that he does nothing but eat, rounded up his gentle green-gray mate and hustled like a shadow down among the corn shocks-as if he remembered when peacocks were a favorite dish on the holiday table.
 Poultry talk used to be small talk and every man looked down on a "hen farmer" but now when the hen farmer is just as likely to ride around in a high-poWer automobile as the cattlenan, nobody wants to start a laugh on him. In fact our agricul- tural experiment station at Tucson has started something mighty differ ent for a laugh-it has started eXten- sion work in poultry growing through its department of poultry husbandry and Norton L. Harris, who was the keen yet genial judge at the poultry exhibit at our recent Fair, IS the "eX- tension poultry specialist" to quote the official title.
 Just what this extension work in poultry can be made to mean in the prosperity of everybody is only real ized when we remember that for d long time eggs have not been worth less than five cents each, usually a cent or two more, here i'll Havapai, and that most any sort of chicken Is good for dollar and a half, and a nice big baking hen will cash two dollars and more without question. Still with such prices two-thirds of the eggs and poultry eaten in Yava- pal are shipped from elsewhere, much of it from outside the state.
 If the poultry and eggs eaten in Yavapai were grown here it would add many thousands of dollars 10 our tax list and bank accounts and many a welcome dollar into the pockets of ranch people. The reasons why more poultry products are not produced here are just what this Poultry EX- tension work is in the field to make clear to anyoine who wants to know. Like every other part of country life poultry raising has come under the special study of experts and has been reduced to a science which anyone who has q mind 10 can learn, and that is exactly what MT. Harris is out to teach, by lectures and talks over l Northern Arizona at regular inter vals; by literature prepared by the director of the department of poultry husbandry, Francis R. Kenny, and by personal letters when a request is made for information which the printed literature does not give.
 II SCGlllS lO llLC llldl tillo lcot 10 AlAN most important thing to country poultry periodicals and books right along but conditions will arise in our own flocks which none of these cover, and it is then that the poultry speciai- ist of our own state is the source of . help to which it is natural to turn.
 MT. Harris expects to be in Pres colt at certain times during the ia'' and winter and beside the talks which he will give he Is glad 10 talk with poultry owners and help them to put their poultry raising on d paying basis.
 It just happens that of all the year 5 this is the most important season to . the poultry owner, though at first 1 thought you might think that was the season of spring matching. It is not : the winter is the time when we make or lose our profits. Eggs arc highest and scarccst in the winter and every cgg we can induce our flock 10 lay is so much toward the - good side of the account.
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