Weekly journal-miner., 1919-08-27

| office a description of every orchard in the state, number and kind of trees, and conditions of health and growth. He would be glad to be told when any disease or insect pest appears, would l like to have a specimen of diseased l leaves or branches sent to him for examination, or of insects for identi- fcation. He is glad to tell any fruit grower how to spray trees and when, and what chemicals to use for differ ent diseases. or insects. Our own state has published many very valu- able leaflets and bulletins about fruit growing and also about almost every farm crop, and all of these are for free distribution to any person who wants them. It is an easy matter to build up a very valuable farm library al almost no expense.
 We have an orchard owner here in Yavapai who would probably be named as the fruit expert of the county. 1 have known him half his life, when he was running cattle and mining a little, and dairying and farming a little. Presently he bought an old orchard and set to work to build it up and grow a new one as well. What experience he had had was back in his boyhood in another country-but he got in touch with our
 state experts al once, took the best of their advice, read the best books and periodicals on fruit growing, put all his past experience into working out the best ways to grow and mar ket fruit-and has made his orchard and his packed fruit speak for him.
 He is the leading orchard man in
 Yavapai today because he was will ing to learn-willing to ask men who . were recognized experts in that line how best to develop his orchard into paying proposition. As it happens
 this man was not born in the United States but in country where for generations the people have been trained to recognize and respect eN- pert scientific knowledge.
 It just happened that last summer f 1 was in an orchard owned by an , Lothcr Yavapai an when it was visited P by one of our state fruit experts, a , man of widely recognized ability and , of the most genuine interest in and Q desire to be helpful to orchard ? growers.
 Q The owner, who is a typical old
 time American farmer, resented the i visit, met every remark or statement r with the assertion that he knew all e that himself, (even the intimate scien- e tihc knowledge of various stages oi
 insect growth and of spraying meth - ods developed by wide experienced [, and when the visitor went away said e freely that the expert was just mak- D ing bluff at knowing anything e about orchards or fruit.
 Now this old farmer was one O. T those who had grown up on tho - frontier, far from any chance to set n how other men did the work, and in stead of being curious or eager tc Il learn about other ways he was mac in minute at the idea that any ma; l. paid by the state to study fruit condi tions knew anything which he di'
 not.
 Now of course our state men don
 know, everything ill their particular !" line. nobody does know everything il
 any line, but they can help us a lot i we are willing to take their help, anc 10 it will be given checrfuIly and cour = teously.
 . Sending In Speciens of Insects
 and Plants.
 The heavy rains and rank vegetabl
 growth this summer have made idea \, conditions for new insect and wee' n pests to develop. Our gardens an' u orchards are beset by an invading l.; army of bugs and worms, some O them merely old enemies iu new mum .+ bers, and some of the apparentl. .s new, or at least brought to notice b. ,t increased numbers. The state en ii tomorogist at Phoenix will enJo- ID bottled or boxed specimens of thes ,r many-legged and winged Huns an' ,e will tell Us how best to combat them .e As for new wecds-I believe tha ,e every seed lying dormant in Northcri ID Arizona soil for the past ten year m has sprouted and made thrift. d growth this year. Every time l mce
 farmer he tells ne. of some ney l. weed and every time l walk througI .- the orchard and garden at Orchar' ,e Ranch I think we are running a wee' ,t experiment station and have corne f. on all the varieties going. Now, Dr l. Thornber, of our state university d -c Tucson. likes to keep tab on thes ,- "L W. W.s" of plant lite and ocoas f. iouaIly he can suggest a better wal le to deport them, anyway he IS glad t'
 get specimens. Sometimes the sup
 posed weeds play joke on Us,
 when a friend of mine wrote me " day or two ago and was worried be