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SOIL CONSERVATION AIDS
SOIL SURVEY .
Rudy Mayko•and John P. Thomson, both Soil
Scientists, have arrived in the Valley to
aid in the Soil survey non under nay in the
Territory. Mr. Thomson nas in the Valley
in 1940 v.'ith T',A. Roclce and helped make the
survey of the Valley at that time. Maps of
their work are posted in'both Mr. Wilson's
and Mr. Lestor,s Offices.
Tho Soil Conservation Service is norking in
cooperation nlth the Bureau of Land Manago
ment of *he Department of the Interior in
making nerr surveys in the Kenai and Dunbar
aroas. These survoys T7ill bo correlated
oith tho uork of tho Bureau of Plant Indus
try of tho Agricultural Experiment Stations
It is hoped that in making this one curvoy
and all interested organizations and sor
vicos norking cooperatively much -duplicato
rork can be avoided. Tho information and
data gathered rill bo of use and'available
to tho Soil Conservation Service, the
Euroau of Land Mnraffcncnt and the Alaska
Experiment Station, TThcn compiled it uill
be available through the Extension*Sorvico
of the University of Alaska,
This next neck Mr, Honi*y Fox, Soil Scien
tist nho has been loaned to the Conserva
tion Service this year; Mr, Rudy Maybe and
Mr, John Thomson nill leave for Fairbanks
and thence to the Dunbar'area to begin chc
soil* survey in that area, Dunbar is this
si do'of Fairbanks along the Alaska rail
road.
WILSON IN FAIRBANKS LAST
WEEK
Last ucck'Charlcs Uilson, Head of the
Territorial Office of Soil Conservation;
Janes ?„ Hur'.oy, district Cons-.rvatijr.i3t;
ani Henry Fox spent last neck in Feint anks
com erring —it a ether members on the Terr i
i ori al Boar I*
The Soil Conservation'Sorvico has been very
buoy, Mr. Til a on says, rith the rush of
nork to be done and the added Sell S’irvcy
rhich uas requested by the Bureau of Land
Management.
BIG PROGRAM AHEAD
Frank Hointzlemon, regional forester for
Alaska of the U„S. Forest Service, also
represents the Secretary of Ayricuituro In
lilaska and makes suggestions to the Sec
retary^ offico on Alaska agriculture pro
blems. "vfc have just started a very largo
agriculture research program,"Hointzlenan
said recently, ’•Heretofore tho United State
has not done much on nor thorn agriculturo.
If wo aro going to settle Alaska ir. a big
nay, wo must have agricuihml development.
The work to be done undo-" Don Irwin’s
direction involves six different research,,
bureaus of the Department of Agriculture.
Hr. Huintzlcman,who also is en'thc Terri
torial Soil,Conservation Board,says tho.
sorvico will help determine the laid capa
bilities and help farmers with problems.