NATIONAL PRESIDENT
DAIRY ASSOCIATION
TO MAKE PALMER VISIT
Merrill N. Wamick, national
president of the American Dairy
Association, will arrive in Pal
mer from Pleasant Grove, Utah,
on Tuesday noon and will spend
that afternoon visiting various
turns in the valley, getting ac
quainted with the farmers. Stew
art Durrant, Co-Op general man
ager, will conduct the visitor on
die valley tout-. Tuesday evening
Mr. Warnick will go by tram to
Fairbanks where he will attend
the Farm Forum in that city, and
will return to Palmer Friday to
meet with dairy farmers and will
present “New Developments in
Eloquence
By Bob Klem
There was an egg
Of ancient make
That splashed the
Pesky candidate
Whatever was
It’s prim intent
It swiftly settled
The argument.
Dairy Marketing” during the eve
ning session of the Farm Forum.
Because of commitments, Mr.
Warnick will be unable to stay
for the Saturday session and
plans to enplane for the States
Saturday morning. This is the
first time the national president
has made a visit to Alaska.
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FROZEN SEMEN FACILITIES MAY BE
PROVIDED FOR LOCAL DAIRY STOCK
Ac it annual meeting last week,
the Matanuska Valley Breeders
Association ratified a new agree
ment with the Experiment Sta
tion which, it hopes, will result
in the acquisition of storage fac
ilities and equipment for the
handling of frozen semen, thus
making available to Alaska dairy
herds the best blood lines of any
breed in the states, and possibly
in the world. When the dairy
herds of Denmark are removed
from quarantine it will be a sim
ple matter to fly Red Danish
Cattle frozen semen direct from
Denmark over the arctic route.
It will also reduce the number
of bulls necessary for the Asso
ciation to maintain.
William Sweetman, husbandry
man at the Experiment Station,
and mentor of the Breeders Asso
ciation since its beginning in
1943, reported on the breeding
program, showing that the num
ber of cows artifieally bred in
creased from 227 in i948 to 878
in 1955. From fair results in 1948
when the program was still in
‘.he experimental stage, the Assq.
eiation has progressed to a point
where it now obtains excellent
results. Eighty percent of the
cows artifieally bred in 1955 con
ceived on the first and second
services, 91 percent on the first
three services, which is a little
better than natural breeding.
A new Holstein bull calf is on
his way from the Beltsville Ex
periment Station, and should ar
rive soon, although he will not
be ready for service until the lat
ter part of the summer. This calf
is praceically no relation to any
cow in the valley. Although still
unproven, he co'nes of a very
high producing family.
The treasurer’s report showed
the Association to be in a good,
but not affluent, financial condi
tion. Receipts for the year were
$7,359.65, and expenditures, $6,
402.51. However, if everybody
had paid service fees promptly,
it was brought out, receipts would
have been sufficiently greater
than expenditures to warrant a
$1.00 cut in the fee. A new col
lection system was voted by the
membership present at the meet
ing which will be submitted by
mail to the total membership, and
if accepted, will result in the
service fee being reduced from
$10 to $9.
New Board Members
Two new board members were
elected for a term of three years
and one for two years to fill the
unexpired three year term of Al
lan Linn who resigned. Newly
elected were William Hoskinds,
V. Louise Kellogg, and Howard
Estelle, who together with Harold
Thuma, A. B. Carson, and Wil
liam Hecker, comprise the board
of the M. V. B. A. for 1956
William Sweetman was ap
pointed manager of the Associa
tion, a position he has filled for
eight years without the title. He
will continue to serve on a vol
unteer basis, correlating the work
of the Association with the Ex
periment Station.
Specialists—
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one for vegetable growers and
one for persons interested in
home construction, remodeling,
and interior decoration.
Dairymen will attend an open
house at Spring Creek Dairy
Farm at 10:00 A.M. Sunday,
March 4th as guests of Miss V.
Louise Kellogg, Matanuska Val
ley dairyman
The closing session of the For
um at. 1:30 on Sunday afternoon
will be chaired by Ed Smith,
President of the Matanuska Val
ley Chamber of Commerce and
will feature Dr. George Scarseth,
Mr. Merrill Wamiek, and a dairy
scientist yet to be named.
Admission to Forum sessions,
Dr .Mick stated, is free and all
persons interested in Alaskan
agriculture are invited to attend.
FRONTIERSMAN CLASSIFIEDS
ALWAYS BRING RESULTS
H. J. Hodgson—
(Continued from page 1)
“Alaska’s Soils and Crops”,
“Dairying in the Land of the
Midnight Sun”, “Effect of Seed
ing Rates and Time of Harvest
on Yield and Quality of Oat Pea
Forage” and “A New Elymus
from Alaska”.
While directing the Experi
ment Station’s field crop research
Hodgson completed his doctorate
thesis at Iowa State College
where he majored in cytology,
the study of plant cells. He min
ored in genetics and was elected
to membership in Sigma Xi upon
completion of these studies in
1955.
Dr. Hodgson has also been in
terested in plant classification,
having recently identified and
named Elymus pendalosus, a na
tive grass Riant. Two more recent
additions to the family of grasses
are Agroelymus palmerensus, af
ter Palmer, and Agroelymus Hod
gsonii which bears his own name.
The Hodgsons will go to south
central Iowa where they have a
200 acre farm. They plan to raise
beef cattle and hogs, and to grow
corn, soybeans and hay. Their
new address will be Route IB,
Albia, Iowa.
The Atomic Energy Commis
sion has indicated that a bomb
several times as powerful as the
biggest hydrogen bomb yet tested
may be on the way.
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