Weekly journal-miner., 1919-10-22
(BY SHARLOT M. HALL)

The Fair has come and gone easily the best Fair ever seen in Northern Arizona-and with all the fun and fine displays in every depart ment, perhaps the most valuable thing to come out of the three days IS the lesson in what cooperation does for farming, and to impress up on us over and over the fact that farming, which has always been the most isolated and individualized life, has now reached the point where 1t must become organized and united to succeed and to keep up with life else where and other lines of business.
 First of all the Fair itself was one big illustration of the united effort of many people working toward com mon end, and of what fine results such united effort can accomplish. One mind, perhaps, had looked for ward and seen a vision Of the har- moniou5 whole, but no one mind or one pair of hands could have carried out the many details and assembled the materials which made up the vari- ous departments, and blended them into a harmonious and united exposi- ton of what Northern Arizona had to offer in every department of life and industry.
 am a farm woman of the older day-an Arizona woman whose child hood on remote and isolated ranch was lonely beyond telling, and as re- mote from all opportunities tor edu cation or social life, almost, as was Crusoe on his island We had ro make our opportunities ont of naked material, we farm people of a quar- ter century ago-as the farmer folk just before us spun and wove their own clothing out of homegrown wool and flax.
 As a little child one thing always seemed to me the most complete and absolute illustration of the loneliness of our lives on the farms and ranches. On so many of the farms you could find a little spot set apar+. roughly fenced, and within the fenee d grave or two, covered perhaps with pits of broken quartz and overgrown with weeds-the resting place or whoever in the family had passed on-as re- mote and lonely in death as in life.
 But this big Fair represented an other kind of farm and country life a life united to all the other life of the day, not merely in sentiment but by dozens of tangible and permanent ties. To take the best illustration on the grounds-there was the fine scientific display in charge of Dr. Bartlett, showing a great number of the insect enemies which injure or entirely destroy crops, and which the individual farmer can hardly fight alone. In this display was grouped these pests at various stages of their growth, with illustrations of their manner of working on plants and fruits and with them descriptions of the poisons to be used in combating them and of the best methods of ap-i plying these remedies.
 Of particular interest to Yavapai farmers and stockmen was the data on killing prairie dogs-those four legged Huns who have devastated thousands Of acres of grazing land and taken three or four successive i plantings of crops in many sections causing a great money loss every year. They are still plentiful enough l and remain to be fought for years to come; but that it is possible to fight them with some chance of success was shown by the photographs, data, i and display of poisoned grains and i equipment in this department.
 The deeper and larger meaning of 1 this whole scientific display is more important than the killing of all the | prairie dogs and insect pests in Ari- zona-for it means that the govern l ment-which is merely all the peo- ple-will bring its best forces to the aid oi whatever part of the people need special help in meeting the con ditions under which they must live.
 Any farmer or stockman can write to our state horticultural department | at Phoenix, stating the conditions which are injuring his crops or range and be sure of the best advice which 1 can be had in that particular line Through the proper department pois- oued grain is supplied 10 persons who will follow the government directions for poisoning dogs and outfits of men are sent into regions specially in- tested
 All such work requires the fullest cooperation of residents and gov crnmcnt men to insure success, as we'll as continued cooperation be- tween the residents of a given local ity. Often the dogs are killed out oil one piece of land while a man near by lets them increase on his hold ings to overrun his ncighbors later on. This is equally true of all insect |
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