Pairs r, Alaska
Editor: Dorothy II, ’Bell
Advertising Ij.r. Helen Ray
Published once a veok at Palmer, Alaska, for the K tanuska Farnors’ Cooperating
Association for the purpose of giving pens of tho Associations rorkj nroblems and
Accomplishments.
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HERE WE ARE AGAIN
It has been decided'that the Valley Settler rill continue to be printed as usual; once
a reek. "Jo are sorry that .the paper had to be late this reek’, but rhon. everything'
gets line unj the regular date for publication rill be on Priday of each reek.
In order to acconnlish this', daadline-s•.are going to have to be adhored to nore strict
ly—especially advertising deadlines. Anyone fishing to discontinue an ad must let
the advertising manager knor by Monday of each uook or the ad rill.be. run for that
reek regardless of later notification. This is because tho plan and blocking out of
the paner as to ners space and advertising spaco must be made before any of the make
up rori:- cun go ahead. T.7hen ah ad must later be blotted out rith correction fluid, tho
s ace is ruined for any other use. Deadlines on advertising changes in standing ads,
rill be on Wednesday. Net: ads can be accc ted up to and including Wednesday.
The purer rill continue mainly as the Co-op official organ for information to the
members. Ners items and notices etc. rill also be gladly accepted and printed. Me
horo to nakd the Settler a norsy little informal paper of special interest to the
people of the Valloy. Extra copios of tho ’aper are to bo made available at the
Trading Post. ********** .
HIGHLIGHTS IN I HE
POULTRY (j EGG BUSINESS
HIE ME"' CHICKEN 07 T0M0RR0TT .
According to. .Poultry brooders, unrelated
strains of chickens such as the "'hito Leg
homs, Barred Rocks, '-’hite Rocks and Rhode
Island Rods are the results of nany gener
ations of lino breeding, and specialists
in breeding today bclleac. it fair to as
suno that all of these nay have gene weak
ncsses. Therefore vrhon two strains of
chickens, say for instance the Barred Rod.,
and the "hito Leghorns, are crossed, a
tremendous boost in egg laying efficiency
can result because one of the real: genes
in each weak pair of both strains is re
placed by a strong gene fron the opposite
strain. Of course if both strains'possess,
cd one of the sane weak gono pairs, then
thQ hybrid -.could bo no improvement.
Ono of tho drawbacks in crons brooding is
that hybrids rill not brood truo. The only
ray in which hybrids can be produced is by
co'nstnntly crossing the tro pure strains
of parent linos.
Broodors claim that the Hybrid chicken is
destined to becone more popular in the
years to cone even though the program re
quires a vast amount of strain_building
and strain testing and a .vory carefully /
planned and controlled program*
COLOR 07 CGS POTS HOT LFiTCT* rV:HT£
TThile the color of thO shol^ may vary fror'
white" tb "a” deep broken, it docs not affect,
the flavor, thb nutritive value or the
cooking qualities of the egg, ro are told,
Zuthoritios tell.us that actually there is
no difforonco aid that there is no. advan
tage in paying more for One color of egg
of the sane ‘sizo and quality. The yolk
color nay vary from light to a do op yellow
T’ istis influenced by heredity and the die
i CHICKEkG; EGG II7C0IE PEACHED RECORD HIGH
II* 1948
■ During the year of .1948 ioultryr.cn took
i in :)2.e billion dollars from the sale of
j eggs, and chickens ac cor dir g to the roorts
. of tho Department of Agriculture. Sales
' plus hone consuHptiori grossod $3.3'billion
| of vhich 66 -or cent vas fror.i eggs, 82
i per cent fron farr. chickens and 12 per cent
j fron commercial broilers.
j Chicken production on farms amounted to
!•• 556 million birds in* 1948, rhich vns 16
i per cent loss in 1947. 551 million, con
! nercial broilers more produced rhich is a
; record* high.
•
; The Production- at 55,168 million eggs rac
about the sanci as in 1947, but tho annual
rate of, lay per hen and pullet on hand the
7 first of the year "as up slightly fron the
year before—rith 129 eggs, as compared rith
: 127 in 1947.
1 Chicken and egg -rices in 1948 roro the
I highest on record. 7\ average erica per
pound of iivcreifht df chickens sold from
i farms vas 30.6 cents, compared ritl 26.8
• cents in 1947. 'Egg rices averaged 47.2
j cents per do-on', about 2 cents more than
: tho year before.
In the S-’cato of ashington, the uoultry
non realised an -average return of /'..oS •
.nor hen during 194$, orjaboUt )l.0<~ :>cr
"hour for their pork, according to studioe
conolotcd by Arthur; J. Ca :1c, rTSC exten
Bion economist. I' esc fi vires roro ob
tained froi1 actual records kert bp >pvltry
'ricn and is the 23rd year that the State
College has analyzed such records.
The $2,.5r? average Vas do-.n si ightly ’ from
Os.62 in 1947', and bewared frith )f.* 1-2 in
1946 and .93 .in 1945. T' largest incono
ras made bach in' 194.3 then the average
. poultryreon earned 'X . 14 ^or hen, accord'
. to C-. glc; and the all tine lor: rac*
:• 1932 -..hen he earned 29c' ncr hen. Average
for the last 10.years is ^.,14 rcr hon.
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