SOIL CONSERVATION PLANS
LIN INC UP
The rork plan for the Soil Conservation
District has beon made out and is in tho
process of being reviomed'by the Advisory
Committee, C' arlos '"ilson,Soils Conserva
Head in the T rritory, annour.c.od this reek,
The main points covered in this program
and rork clan as outlined, include tho
following subjects;
I. Education rork
Crop land—Range land—rood land—Iriga
tod and Drained land.
II. Distribution Program and "brl: P?.an
'"ork arcsts—District relations and
Sub-district—System of handling appli
cations—Equipment—Surveys and Investi
gations—Seed increase plantings—Crop
adaptation 2: Hic-ld trials.
Ill Assisting agencies in this rork are;
Extension Service—Soil Conservation
Service—A ricultural Research Adminis
tration—Alaska Department of A ricultum
Alaska Rural R habilitation Corporation
U.S. Torostry Service
T.S. Earn and Home Administration
Jr es ?. Hurley of ’“eiser. Idaho, is ex
pected to arrive about tho first of Jive.
M . H'rley,v7ho has had six or seven years
experience in soil v,ork,T-ill- be M .Hilsonh
assistant.
Ib’. Hurley rill- bring his family.
T7ilson
in the
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ll son oxaects his grn family to arrive
Valley sometime m June.
P rkcr Lester mill be in the Anchorage
area this next meek, He mill carry on
his mork there out of the Anchorage Ex
tension Service Office. _ _
AGRICUL TURAl PROGRAM
C&nt. fro:::. rage. 7
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|Br. C. L. L-.fcbvro, F'urt Pathologist, is
'being located in Fairbanks T-iiere he rill
intake a study ef an epidemic of ring rot in
jtho potatoes there. He is expected to ar
rivo about June 1. He rill rork rith the
[farmers there and observe tho potato plants
as they come'up and then leave for the Lluta
nuska ’/alloy. It is expected that he rill
spend li or ? ’-eelcs in ine V. lley, a roek
ia .the T_ cho^age area and then on the
the faming areas in the Ifcnai Peninsula
for tho remainder of the tine. He plans
to return ro j' ir'rmks by harvest tin3 to
observe diseases of potatoes as rell as
these of other vegetables and types of
plants, hr T-ofobvre is recognized as an
outstanding Flan'; Pathologist.
Hr. Bon Irvin has had a letter from Dr*
;Chanberlain rho is nor at Forest GroTO,'
Oregon- 7Te and his family ere very -ell,
REAL ESTATE '
M D. SNODGRASS
Cwo Itodern Houses in Palmer, one furnish
ed, one partly furnished—FRICZD TO STLL.
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lore than 1000 acres Patented Hu: esteads,
indevelored-good locations.
BOI’STHTHO '.F77
3 Room Cottage nearing completion. Bust it
nstruction-on rater line.
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