Weekly journal-miner., 1919-09-10
GOOD ROADS AND EXHIBITS
 FOR NORTHERN ARIzONAFA

sons to us home poultry growers and it is worth while to bring in our best and see that they don't get all the ribbons. Fowls for exhibition should have a little extra care and food to have their feathers in good condition, indeed the fair will catch some of our pet birds looking "scraggly" if we don't pen them and give them attention now. Just as the crops are ripening early this year so the fowls are all moulting earlier than usual and wise old weather prophets say we will have an early and a cold winter.
 Whether this is true or not, we have taken much interest out at Orchard Ranch in watching the pet peacock remove his beautiful feath- CTS. Remove" is literally correct; while we were wondering whether we ought to cut the gorgeous tail which when spread like a great fan measured more than six feet across, we noticed that King Solomon had taken to sitting in the sun with feath- CTS ruffled up as if drying them. Presently we saw his long neck twisted and beak busy among the feathers and when his head straight ened up he had withdrawn a long feather and was laying its glittering length on the grass. Day by day he preencd himself in the sun and laid the ripened feathers down as one might pack away summer clothes
 Now in his tight brown wing quills he looks like some new kind of tur- key-but we hope his gorgeousness
 will return by fair time, for a pea cock without a tail might not win the prize.
 Save Garden Seeds at Home
 There has never been a time when it was more important for everyone who plants garden to save as much seed as possible from home grown stuff Seed growing has suffered as much as other industries from war conditions and the past year or two great quantities of almost worthless seed was put on the market. In our own garden and in others which have seen this year the old time southern collard is flourishing where we expected cauliflower-the seeds being almost identical, and collard evidently placed in packets supposed to be cauliflower. Radishes were equally uncertain, long roots appear ing where we had planted for early round, and some of the peas proved to be worthless.
 Now when things are really good we are taking care to save all the seeds we can and these will be stored
 in tin cracker boxes to keep them safe till spring. We have found all easy way of drying the moist seeds of tomatoes and melons and keeping them labeled and unmixed. They are placed on paper picnic plates and on the rim of each plate the variety 1t
 contains is written in pencil. When dry the plates are stocked and stored in a safe place, a tin biscuit box is fine till there is time to put the seed in envelopes plainly marked.
 ' Corn specialists know that corn :, sprouts more quickly and perfectly
 in the locality in which it was grown and this is true of nearly all garden seeds. Over and over we have pro- ven this to be true. We planted
 quantities of salsify this year and the
 only seed that made rank growth was grown by a neighbor only few miles away. Like most root veget- ; ables, salsify stands over the first season and makes seed the second and we shall certainly leave roots . enough in the ground for seed.
 ,t If you live ill town and have friends who plant gardens save some seeds of the good things you buy ill the markets. The finest watermelon on our ranch came from seeds served , to the patients i'll a Los Angeles hos pital. One man saved the seeds from his slice-a melon that had ripened in the altitude of Flagstaff
 and is rarely fine in flavor.
 And Still We Talk About Canning ? Fruit
 Yes, sir With California canned | fruit soaring. toward six bits a car we are. going to keep right on talking | about putting up the abundance with . which Yavapai has been favored this year. And if you think enough direc- . tions have been given already just ; read some of my letters or hang , around Orchard Ranch on Sunday which is visitors day and listen to .'the tales of woe Say, 1 put up l9 cans of peaches last week and last night after we got to bed heard , something in the ceilar-"Ber-room!
 Ber-oomn and my husband says, is . somebody got in and stealing some thing, and he got up. and went in the cellar and can of peaches blew up and hit him all over the head and all the jars busted-and say, what
 was the matter, anyway
 |,The matter anyway" when fruit Facts like gas bombs in the jars is