CO-OP nOTES
rCTATO.:2GRO".TSRS MEETING
Aleut 50 potato grorers of the Valley turn
ed out to a meeting on Tuesday evening of
this reek to discuss the potato market sit
uation. A special meeting had been oalled
by Mr. ALlyn on Monday for that purpose.
S7/NDARD OIL
Standard Oil is completing the installation
of tanks and bulk fuel pumps at the Stan
dard Oil Bulk Station of -iiich Mr.Hennessy
is in charge,' The loading dock is also
being rebuilt,
will ppy Lynn smoviK's
LUfly TO CHICAGO
4 .1: ' /S.Li 'Aikins of the Allis
Chalners I.!fg, Co,, iannounced last Saturday
v hr t his company mould sponsor the entire
-trip to Chicago and return for Lynn Sand
-,-ik rho von the 4-H Garden Contest in
Alaska. Mr. Aikins said that he had felt
far a long time that Alaskan boys and
girls should have an opportunity to com
pete in these national contests,
Lynn is to attend the National 4-H Congress
meeting in Chicago from N0vembor 30, to
December 4.
MrAikins 'mas traveling in company mith
I'.A. ELoyd, representative'in this area
for the Lomen Equipment Col of Anchorage,
Hr. Aikins is representative in tho Tbrri
tory for the Tractor Division of the Allis
Chalmers Co. His headquarters are in
Seattle.
. SEATTLE BROKER FRVORRBLH
IfTlPRESSED WITH VRLLEy
T-. E.A. Anderson of the Bank of California
~cs in Palmer Wednesday of this reek ad- '
conranied by Ylillian Heal of Anchorage. Mr.
Anderson, t&o is from Seattle, is on a
Banking Tour of the Territory. He ras very
fortunate in arriving in Anchorage and
Palmer on days of the most beautiful rea
ther re have had in reeks.
ITr. Anderson ras very much impressed rith
the evident progress that is being made in
the Territory. He ras‘escorted around the
Valley by Jack E Maze head of the Mata
DR. REED PRESERTS PIPE
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Artificial Insemination for the Valley
Dairy herds mas the topic of a special
meeting of the Dairymen called for "Jed
nosday evening of 'this reek in the Exton-,
sion Officed. Dr. C. E.'Reed, Head of the
Bureau of Dairy Industry, ras introduced
by Don Irvin, a former student of Dr.
Reed’s. Don Irvin in his introduction
said that he had requested Dr. Reed to
come to the Valley aid make a study of
the Dairy problems he-a, dines Dr.Reed’s
arrival he had visited a number of the
dairy farms hero an l dxscu- 3..-d the prob
lems -:ith tho farmers. Ke had found tvo
major problems ©:•: sting In the valley and
they dealt rict feed aid grasses that pro
duce hay of high nutritive value and the
other orebl am v:as improvement of the dairy
herds in tho valley so that farmers get
more milk for the same amount of feed.
Dr. Reed upon opening his talk stated .
that the problem of adaptable grasses for
this region ran not in his field, but
that the Department of Agriculture mould
do research along that line. His rork
lies vith the improvement of dairy herds
in vhich'field he has spent a lifetime of
research.
’Thile improversnt in Dairy herds is a
slor rrocecs, Dr. Reed pointed out that
during the tine he has been in this rork
herds hove been improved so that r.oro'
milk is being produced rith less cons.
TThy has it taken so long to accomplish v
vrhat has-been done?
First, re do not have the right kind of
blood ir. the Dairy herds to begin rith—
Second, it takes a long time to raise
heifers to production.
It has been difficult to obtain'proved'
sires even from lure Bred Herds, because
all too often records have not been kept
and there has been nothing to judge a
bull except his pedigree.
Dr. Reed spoke of Exneriment rork in rhich
he :;as interested during his college years
but his most valuable research has been
done at Beltsville, rhere for 27 years
experiments have been carried out and com
plete records kept. A test ras’started on
20 Jersey and 20 Holstein cons. These
herd a have been kent on the same type of