EXTENSION NEWS
4-H FnIR: Froject work of the 4-H mem
bers In Matanuska Valley and Eklutna will
be on display at the annual fair, Satur
day and Sunday, September 2 and 3, In the
Fair Buildings. The best of livestock,
gard; :i products, baking, clothing, handi
craft., canning, camp cookery, and RE^ will
be exhibited by the 166 memoers enrolled.
Booths displaying some of the features of
the projects carried will further exolaln
4-F work. The Flower Show and Canning
E' j bit, sponsored by the Homemakers, will
1 bi ..n added attraction. The public Is ln
! v. :«.d to attend the Demonstration Program
| on Saturday afternoon, and to view the e;r
1 Mbits both Saturday and Sunday afternoon,
..n auction of the prlzewlnnlng vegetables,
bi. . .d goods, and flowers will be a feature
of the Sunday afternoon program at 4 p.m.
The puolic also Is Invited to attena a ter
on Sunday afternoon, given as a special
reception for the new teachers.
Rim. (4-H); The RLn. 4-H Clubs met Monday
c id Tuesday. U0ur Gang" Club mat last Wed.
R..TN30W 4-H CLUB; Trie 3aklng I Division
of the Falnoow Cluo met Thursday after
noon at the heme of iinne Mofflt, and the
Child Care group of the same Club met Mon
day afternoon, nt the heme of Mrs. Walter
Mau. Demonstrations and Fair plans were
features of both meetings.
i!l IS 'JIG bUJIEESS"1 (fr. a "Know
I Your -eightors 1M by Paul i'. Mull ikon, pub
• 11 sl‘: .1 in bettor Farm Equipment and Method
vol. 16, no, 6, 194%): There ere nearly
ten 111ion business establishments in
this groat country of ours. Six million
or bout 60 per cent of the total number
are farmers. They not only exceed all :
other types of business men in number but
th 0 out-produce ana outsell any other
sJ. sle group. Last year the total cose in
come of America's farmers was $80 billion
while the value of all farm products was
over $25 billion. Farmers constitute the
greatest capitalist group in the nation.
Th: value of their farm lands, buildings
and equipment far exceed the invested
capital In any other business.
Farmers have over $6 1/2 billion worth
of farm equipment alone. In 1941, the last
year of normal production in our industry,
the farmers of America bought a total of
billion v.orth of tractors, implements,
c -lry and poultry supplies and other farm
equipment, the machine toos of agriculture
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Farmers have demonstrated the fact that
they are good business men o iu.se they
have Increased their efficiency some seven
ty times In the last 110 yeara. ThO figui
Is startling when you stop to think of It
but we In the farm equipment industr/ hold
•that this has been made possible to a great
extent uy our contributions to agriculture.