Weekly journal-miner., 1919-10-01
(BY SHARLOT M. HALL)

notice sent out by the secretary of the live stock sanitary board asking that all stock owners should send in for registration the stock brands which they are using or intend to use, in order that new state book of brands might be prepared and pub lished
 Some have feared that they were in danger of losing a brand long in use unless claim was made to 1t be- fore certain day and others have thought that they would have to brand all cattle owned by them in one brand, even though they had pur- chased brand and stock.
 The request from the live stock secretary was sent out because of a new law which was passed last Feb ruary with the purpose of getting the many cattle brands of Arizona into more systematic shape and making it possible to keep better records of the brands in actual use.
 It would surprise anyone to look over the present state brand book and study the great number of brands shown there-many thousands of them. It would seem as if no new brand could be invented or thought out; there is such bewildering num- Der of letters, figures, and designs that it would take days to become at all familiar with them.
 That IS exactly why the new brand book is desired land needed-it is hard indeed to find brand not in the book already-yet good many of these are no longer in use, they sim ply remain over from the past.
 Through this new registration of brands it is expected to have book which will show all the brands actu ally in use-this means those used on the increase of stock and those on old stock bought and held ill the old iron-the notices sent out by the live stock sanitary board are very plain the whole purpose is to record actual use of brands and to leave such char acters and combinations as are no longer used for some other stock owner to make use of with proper registration.
 Blanks prepared by the board will be sent to any stock owner on appli- cation to the live stock sanitary board at Phoenix or to C. E. Gentry, secretary of the Yavapai Cattle Growers Association at Prescott. This blank asks for exactly the in- formation which is necessary in mak- ing up the new book and when filled out is to be sent to the Phoenix office
 It IS a matter of keenest interest to every stock owner, even though he may not own a dozen animals; a re- corded brand is the solid foundation on which herd is built up and it is bad business to jog along thinking that no one else will want that com binatiOn anyway-some one is sure | to hit upon the brand and by record i ing get legal right to it.
 Send to the genial secretary of the Iavapai association and get your blank and be on time with the infor- nation needed to enable the. new brand book to be complete and alive and still able to cut out all dead timber.
 And by the way, there are many stock owners in Yavapai who do not belong to the Cattle Growers Asso- citation and others who belong but do not attend. Either one of these mis- takes is too big a mistake for any man in the stock business to keep on making; every person who owns even small herd should belong to the association and attend every meeting.
 The first purpose of this organiza- ton is to make stock growers better acquainted with each other and to get together now and then to talk over things which will further the inter ests Of all stock owners ill Yavapai. Through this local organization close touch is kept with the national or ganization of stock growers and when matters come up at home or away that threaten the prosperity of the stock interests it is much easier to meet them with the organized strength Of the association than when only one may makes the effort.
 Looking back over the books of the association, as the secretary per mitted me to do, saw how the com- bined strength of all could help the single owner. Close watch is always kept and funds arc ready to punish cattle stealing; the relations between the forest service and stock owners are discussed and adjusted and spe- cial needs of certain portions of the leased ranges brought to the atten- tion Of the forest service officials; the matter of cattle killed by cyanide from certain mining plants had been taken up, and during the recent war the matter of drafting all the avail able help on certain ranges had been brought before the proper authori- ties. As the secretary said to me, it IS the small stock owner who may, if