Weekly journal-miner., 1919-10-22
FAIR TAUGHT GREAT LESSON
 IN COOPERATIVE EFFORT
 FOR FARMING INDUSTRY

If 1t were published a year ahead
 that at the next Fair a hundred dol lars would be paid for the best ten ears of corn of a standard variety it would encourage special plantings
 and cultivation, as well as special in
 terest in the Fair itself, and it is mighty safe to say that the return i'll
 the future would be out of all pro portion to the outlay.
 One department of the Fair has gone ahead with Heaps and bounds" and that is the poultry show. The poultry tent has always been crowd ed since the first Fair was held and the interest continues. This year every pen was, filled and more needed another year let us hope there may be a permanent building for this dis play.
 The best part of this show, to the actual poultry grower, was the fact that the judge was the man whom our state agricultural college is send ing out to promote interest ill poul- try and to help solve the difficulties of poultry raising Mir. Harris is genial man, clearly "onto his job," in terested in it, and ready to pass on all the information possible. He eX- poets to lecture in Prescott once a month for some time to come in the work of increasing interest in poultry growing and will also visit some of the country ranches where fowls are kept.
 One thing we country people should not allow another year-far the larg- CT number of fowls entered in the show came from other parts of the state, while some of us know that Yavapai has enough blue-ribbon stock to fill the big tent and run over into the livestock pens. With the work which Mir Harris will do we ought to turn that record around by next Fair time.
 I hope every visitor saw the pie lures in the art department-a collec- ton of paintings which one would travel far to see ordinarily, instead of having them come to us. All of them were beautiful, some were real ly notable, and a few would be great art anywhere, particularly that won derful, quiet bit of ocean, touched with sunset lights which made one think of great masters.
 The special display of enlarged photographs in this department would have commanded attention anywhere; following them around the long room was like a journey through | Northern Arizona, including all its | points of wonder and interest. From the old capitol building to the we'll known Yavapai cattleman "bull-dog- ging" a steer, each picture was a page in Arizona history and development as well as a work of art as true as the bit of sun-tinted ocean.
 And speaking of bull-dogging a steer-someone who saw it done says that the brother of our competent arena director, Lester Rufner, was the first man on record to pull off the stunt, Probably George Ruffner, well-known to older cattlemen, didn't swear all his friends to secrecy when long ago a bunch of them watched him bulldog a steer to save being gored by the angry victim of an early 
 We women folk were disturbed in our enjoyment of the art department by its nearness to the household economics, culinary and needlework displays. Much as we enjoyed the one. our own handicraft was on dis play in the other, to Say nothing of the secrets of our art being demon- 5ti ated by a charming Prescott lady 50 if sunset oceans and hreIess cookers were 'ilsic mixed in our memories it was ro- tO the serioas ietrImcnt of either.
 Much of the gooI of the Fair Is that 1t furnished in every department suggestions Of the most practical use n our everyday life and home-mak- ng. So much indeed of value was presented that much of it must wait uller mention another time-but the one big lesson stood out everywhere team work, uniting he needs of a community and cut ing cost by meeting it as a whole. Iavapai should have many examples of farm club work at lncxt years Fair, for that way lies the bettermcnt 'I country life which is one of the pig questions today, big enough to be l national problem, ill fact.
 PAIR OF GOOD ONES ,