AGRICULTURISTS MOVING IN
Don L. Irwin is a very busy man petting ev
erything lined u;- in tho New A; riculture '
Program which is being inaugurated this
year. lie has just returned from Vashingtor
D. C.,, and announces the addition of sev
eral new members to the Experiment Stat ion
Staff. Pie services of three men have beer
secured to do Soil "ork in Alaska this year
T! ese men are: -Ulan Nick-, 1. 3. 3rglaberi
and Harold 0. Krueger. They will make a
soil survey and classification as well as
manning and soil analysis in the N-. .tanuska
V lley.
Dr. Iver 2N igaard will be in the Valley
about the first of June to assist the soil
scientists in getting this work underway.
Dr. r"illiam S' eetnan will be in charge of
the Dairy and Animal Husbandry work for the
Alaska Stations. lie is driving through
with his family and is expected to arrive
about Nay 1.
Nr. Harold "Todgson will arrive about Nay 1
to begin his work. He will be in charge
of the Agronomic work, grain and forage
crops.
Dr. N rvin 7. Hat and family arrived in
Palmer this week from Cheyenne,. Vyo. Dr.
Bab has had 17 year experience in Cheyenne
as Plant Physiologist at the Northern Crane
plains Horticulture Station. No will bo
in charge of all Horticulture work in the
3::.eriment Stations of Alaska and will be
located at the I* tonuska Valley Station.
All of the above named personnel will- be
bqsed at the I'atanuska Station.
A .nlanthropologist is being selected to
take over work with plant diseases .for Di
riment Stations in Alaska. He will be
based at the Fairbanks Dm-criment Station i
to assist farmers in the 7-'.nana Valley with
their disease control work on potatoes and*
other farr.i crops. During the summer he
.will cone to the I'- tanuska Valley to study;
the plant diseases here and will also go ‘ I
to A-ohorage and- T*vnai Peninsula District.’
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the ling Department and L.-nd Classifi- |
cation in the Dor.t. of the Interior will !
be in the Valley to make a study of varioui
phases of farm management. He will also
visit other farming areas in Alaska.
Efforts are_being made to secure the ser
vices of one or more men to make studies
of the A'riculture Vconomics and Farm !!an
ager.ie.:t Practices of the various types of
farming in the established farm areas in
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Located 1 r.ile from Palmer, on
the I'ctanuska-r. Imer h’irhray. .
Alaska, ir.esc economic studies will be j
carried on in connection with the Soils
’.7ork and with those soils on farris that are
non in operation. It is exnected that a ,'
farm management economist •"•ill bo stationed
in Alaska permanently under the Ixoerir.ent >
Station Program.
Truipnont, both for farm oneratior and tech
nical study, has been rurchased for all
these “cporinent Stations in Alaska and
rill be coring in as rapidly as transnor
taticn facilities are available. 0 a
nrogran of this scope it is bound, to take
some little time to get things organised
and operating smoothly. The matter of
housing is a major controlling factor.
The paoer office ras cormletely disrupted
Thursday when workmen came in to install a
hot rater tank to furnish heat for the three
apartments, Tie Editors tables were turned
and ti ped ( orse than Il lloreen). "v can't
he In it’ if the naner is late. r?u can’t, find
half our stuff. when asked why they nicked
Thurs., they said the day picked itself.