Weekly journal-miner., 1919-08-20
THIS SCENIC WONDER SEEMS TO.
 HAVE BEEN OVERLOOKED BY ALL.

1 lCdSOl WIy lllC Ndl Was lOl llIlSu was because the summer visitors was | because the summer visitors now i'll Prescott had never been told how much beauty they could see in one day of easy, comfortable travel. | How many of us who have homes in Yavapai know what wealth of interest and beauty we have within its borders? The same money that takes us to some strange place for all uncomfortable stay among strangers would take us all over our own coun- ty and open our eyes so that we would swell with pride at what we have here at home.
 1 wonder how many of us country people who come to Prescott in cars have taken the trip over the Senator road past the old Senator mine to the head of Mt. Union trail?l It takes three or four hours to go and return, with plenty of time to look around, and the forest and canyons and moun- tains are equal to anything in the Mogollones or White mountains, or to the California Sierras.
 But most of us thing we want to see something new when we take a vacation-and isn't all this beauty here at home new? In truth it is so new that we can be explorers and come upon many wonder about which no one has written or told. If for a year we were each to say ten words a day about the beautiful things right here at home we would have Prescott so full of summer visi- tors that someone would have to build new hotels to hold them. Try a vacation right here in Yavapai this year, and then tell everybody about 1t.
 New Things In the Garden.
 We have been watching some new things in crops all summer; there are two fields Of corn grown from seed brought from Italy that bid fair to add very valuable varieties to the list of early corn grown in Northern Ari- zona. A little of this seed tried out near Flagstaff is reported as prob ably the best corn for that region ever introduced there. It comes from region about the altitude of Pres colt and quite similar in climate. lt is type introduced hundreds of years ago from South America and is the corn from which the famous polenta meal is made, a corn meal not equal led even by the water ground meal ot the Southern states because this corn has a sweet, nut-like flavor not found in American varieties.
 There is a field of Italian broom corn already of giant growth and field of Italian squashes that prom .ises new varieties of value. Five kinds of beans from Northern Italy are be- ing tried and one of them is reported as probably more valuable than the wide1y-grown Pinto for high attitudes.
 We have a new cucumber from Italy that grows twenty or more inches long and resembles a casaba melon on the outside It is delicate and tender as an ordinary cucumber but is also used for cooking when ripe.
 Visitors to the ranch lately have been interested to taste the kohl rabi which although not at all new vegetable is very little known. It isl popular in Denmark and Sweden and looks as if it had started out to be d cabbage and then decided to be a turnip with the bulb above the ground. It is this bulb which is cooked and resembles Caulifower but is more delicate if used when small. The special value here is that this plant stands heat and drouth well and by successive plantings may be had from early spring to winter.
 We have big lot of the new win ter watermelon coming on and think they are going to be as valuable as the winter casaba. They are smaller than the usual melon and ripen off the vines as casabas do. They are pretty sure to be a regular thing on future markets.
 7 Now is the time that all of us farm CTS must begin thinking ahead for the county fair Don't think you have nothing good enough or that it's too much trouble to get things ready to exhibit Every ranch has something that other farmers would like to see; let's make this the very best fair ever held at Prescott, and line up an ex- hibil that will win all the prizes al Phoenix when the State Fair opens. 1
 Buys That Are Bargains.
 The August sales are still on though l the new fall goods are coming in; to make room for the new things some of the most attractive goods in brok- en lines are being sold at surprisingly 1 low prices. 1 have never seen hand somer patterns and styles in cotton dresses than the B.-B. store is offering at big reductions. Some are in darker colorings that will be good all fall, and the lighter shades are beautiful . for house wear This firm has quite a different line of specially timely
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