Palmer, Alaska
Dorothy M, hell, Editor
Published every Friday at Palmer, Alaska, for the Matanuska Valley
Farmers* Cooperating Association for the purpose of giving news of the
Associations1*-Work, hrot>iemSf Accomplishments,
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IAL BANDED TO THE CONGRESSIONAL
COMMITTEE BY THE ARRC
I. Dept, of the Interior and General
Lend Office.
A. Aerial Photographs showing exten'
and approximate acreage for settle
ment in each area.
B. Soil Classification Survey. *
II. Alaska Road Commission
'• Road Location Purvey and Coni*, r
truction
1. Main highways
2* Feeder farm roads,
III. Office of Territorial Cadas
tral Engineer.
Actual Survey !
IV. U.S. Soil Conservation Serviee:
A. Establishment of soil conserva
tion demonstration area.
1. Classify by cruising.
a. Designate areas sufficiently
level and suitable for clearing
and cultivation.
b. Designate areas too stfcep or
too wet and for other reasons *
suitable for pastiirej, woodlot,
windbreak, etc.
c. leach and demonstrate soil
.•’conservation practices..
d, Establishment of soil conser
vation grass, legume, tree and
snrub nurseries.
V, United States Weather Bureau.
A* Cooperative weather stations
1. provide' weather data .for var
ious districts Wifhin the area,
B. Airways stations to:
1, Provide weather data to CAA,
military, commercial and civil
ian groups,
..LASKA RURAL REHABILITATION.
CORPORATION r
A. Overall-Advisary Supervision,
1. “u^ervisiori of Real Estate and
building loans,
2, Supervision of land clearing
operations,
a. Use available manpower for
slashing trees. All land clearing
operations either done by thcAHRc
or by private contract, with do-'
finite stipulations by ARRC in
agreement with homesteader ns to
methods to be used and areas to b<
cleared,
DUE TO LACK OP SPACE* THIS PROGRAJ
PARTS OF SPECIAL INTEREST TO VaLIE^
VEGETABLE GROWERS HOLD MEETING
Some of the high lights in the
discussion at the recent Vegetable
Growers Meeting were:
We now have a peacetime market
-and not a wartime, and that nothing
will hold that market except quality
and a dependable standard.
Production must be planned. This
should be done far enough ahead of
time so that the ground is fertile
enough for the crop plunaed on that
particular piece of ground.
Plans are being considered for
the establishment of a Growers'
School during the "inter months.
A research should be made so that
we know the quality of our product
and food value in minerals and
Vitamins.
In gardening a plant should be
fed with the idea as to what one
wants the plant to do. If you want
lettuce, feed accordingly) but
should you want seed then a different
method is needed.
General marketing conditions
were discussed.
b.Remove saw logs, mineprops and
building logs and firewood; proceeds
from sale of timber products to
apply on clearing cos’ts,
c* Pile and butfn brush and decayed
logs; ready to bulldoze stumps.
d. Actual bulldozing operations;
breaking of land first time,
e. Burning of brush, treetops, de
cayed logs and stump rows to be
jsupervised by Alaska Fire Control,
B. Under supervision of Arrc and
in agreement with FSA:
1. Classify farms as to suitability
for different types of farming,
£. Placq farm families on farms
suited to their type of farming,
VII Farm,Security Administration or
Some similar Agency should be
the only source of chattel loans
for farm equipment, livestock,,etc .
aj.s6 for loans to agricultural .
(jFoirbnodity cooperatives. Such an
agency should be coordinated with
.the “ARRC in order to control and
avoid over-indebtedness of the
borrowers.
IS ONLY PARTLY PRINTED. HOWEVER,
PEOFLE '.WERE : INCLUDED,