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Vol# ISPalmer, Alaska
QRiTiERr Cn-OPERRTint
Februa ry 8, 1952*
No# 5
I WO-TEMPERATURE
WALK-IN REFIIInERAToRi
leaflets <** plan:
AVAILABLE
T7hat is it? A walk
in refrigerator with a
room for chilling and
storing meats and other
farm products (approxi
mately 250 cubic feet)
and a low-temperature
room for freezing and
storing fruits, vege
tables and meats. (App
roximately 100 cubic
feet).
Yfhere can it be built?
Inside another building,
or outside with addi
tion of siding and roof.;
•
V/hat will materials
cost? For one locality ;
at late 1950 prices the
cost v/as approximately j
$1,200; divided about
equally between buildinn!
materials and refriger
ation equipment.
V/hat will it cost to i
run? In a surrounding
temperature of 70' F. it
will use approximately
200 Kilowatt-hours per
month. • I
I
What will it do? The ;
chill room will cool one:
beof or one large hog or;
600 pounds of other pro-:
duce at one time. The
freezer room will freeze'
100 pounds per day. f
Descriptive leaflets
are available at the Ex
tension Office, and
working drawings are ob
tainable on request.
GAME FRIDAY -
PALMER vs SEWARD
BETTY GLUNCin
•WINS BOND
Luckily the Matanuska
Valley has another I4.-H
Territorial winner.
•This week a $100 sav
ings bond, given by
Montgomery.Ward, was
sent to Betty 31unck_
for hor winning the
Girl’s Record contest.
Betty is not in the
Valley, so her bond was
given Betty's mother,
Mrs. Henning ^lunck.
Betty has been in I4.-H
Club work nine years;
seven of these 1l-H
years spent in Illinois
Last fall she sent in
all the records of her
project work, and 'these
merited the bond. The
award is also based on
the k-H'cr taking part
in those activities
which make for a happy
family; to become pro
ficient in those house
keeping skills and man
agerial abilities that
make for a comfortable
satisfying home; and to
buy wisely for self and
home.
continued on 3
U OF A CF.TS
INCREASED FUND
Analysis of the Pres
ident of the United
States' recently re
leased Budget Message
to the Congress reveals
the following item of
interest to the coun
try's land Grant Insti
tutions, Federal Grant
in-Aid items for resi
dent teachihg, agricult>
ural research, and ag
ricultural extension
work for all the United
continued on 5
RATS A NO iv;iC.t
GIVING YO'J a
BA D TIM£ 9
One of tho best rat
and mouse killers ever
developed is now avail
able to fanners. It
has boon estimated that
a rat is worth a twenty
dollar bill to the farm
er, that is, the farmer
would bo twenty dollars
ahead if the rat would
move off the farm.
.Usually, once the rat
has found a mood source
|of food and shelter, he
[proceeds to settle down
and raise numerous off
spring to help eat all
that nice rain stacked
up in the barn.
Warfarin is the name
of this new poison, it
thins the blood and
after a series of feed
ings, causes internal
bleeding and death. The
rat or mouse never knows
what makes him feel so
low and will drag him
self up to another feed
of Warfarin with his dy
ing breath.
Warfarin can be ob
tained as a concentrate
to be mixed with ftrain
or as a prepared bait
ready to set out.
The Co-op Warehouse
aas.tho matorial on or
ier.
NOTICE
TO ALL FARMERS ORDER
ING RRNCNIRM NITRATE.
Plcaso get in touch
with the Co-op Waro
houso at once as we
I will have to substitute
| something for ammonium
[ nitrato.
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