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September 16, 194 9_ No.36
VOL. 12
Palmer, Alaska
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TRIP TO FAIRBANKS
Mr. J. W. Wilson, manager of the
M.V.F.C.A., made a quick trip to
Fairbanks, leaving Monday and re
turning Tuesday evening of this
week. He went up to make arrange
ments with the Tanana Valley Co-op,
who are at present shipping some po
tatoes to the army there on our con
tract. Mr. Wilson says that Fair
banks has been having beautiful
weather for the last three weeks. j
The crops look fine, and they are
now in the middle of the potato har-j
vest, which looks very good.
• MIS 5 ON B;D
We received an invitation to bid on
39 Top of potatoes for delivery to
Big Delta throughout the winter.
We submitted a bid but were under
bid by Glen Woods who will be awar- j
ded the contract.
MILK P ft l CCS
A store in Anchorage seems to want
to make a foot ball of milk prices
at this time of the year. The re
tail price in Anchorage is 35# per
quart of milk. The groceryman pays
30# per quart, making a very nomin
al profit on such a perishable item.
They have to keep it refrigerated
and stand the loss on spoilage. !.e
didn’t v/ant to see the price change I
as this would make other merchants
have to lower their profits. \'!e
are only trying to protect the mer-j
chants and try to support them.
lie want to protect our milk from be
coming a football for price wars
particularly at this time of the
year when milk is becoming scarce !
again. 'Then the production is low ;
it is the wrong tine to be kicking
the price around.
PROCUCE DEPT. SWAMPER j
r
Harold Stephan is smothered with
produce in spite of the fact that
it is going to (continued page St I
OflFFSERCE in
[O'
Kenai and Homer are popular places
with the Agriculture Experts this
week. A conference is%being held
in Kenai with experts and field
workers who have been there the
past summer so that,a complete an
alysis of that area'may be had.
Among those from Pnluicr who are at
Ka::ai attending this ■ conference
are: Dr. Allan Hick,■conservation
ist; William Sv.’oetman,' Animal Hus
bandryman; Ar-lo Hodson, Agronomist;
Hugh Johnson, Agriculture Econom
ist; Dr. Samuel C. Litzenberger,
Agronomist and Plant Breeder; Dr.
Stanley Cosby from the Portland
Regional Office of the Soil Conser
vation; Thomas Day and Charles ’.:il
son of the local Soil Conservation
Office; and James Hurley, Manager
of the A.R.R.C.
CONFER IN FAIRBANKS
Don L, Irwin, Emil C. Ganschaw and
Mrs. Alice Snodgrass of the local
Agriculture Department offices re
turned from a conference trip to
Fairbanks last Friday. They report
a very fine trip.
Mr. Irwin reported that the Agricul
ture Experimental work in that area
is showing much advancement. The
Fairbanks Experiment Station has
begun their harvest of grain plots,
and will start their potato harvest
the latter port of this week or'the
first of next. Sp far, he said,
Fairbanks has had no frost, and
from all appearances the crops in
the Tanana Valley are very good.
Mr. Irwin says that Charlie Creamer,
of Creamer’s Dairy, has a beautiful
60-acre field of Vihite Rose Potatoes
which is ready to harvest.
COSTLY DISEASE
rhe President-elect of the -American
Veterinarians Medical Association,
7.M. Coffee of Louisville, Ay., es
timates that the livestock industry
Loses jl00,000,000 annually from
Bangs disease.