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’AGRICULTURAL PLANS
•higher -Alaska Conditions. During the
final experiment tho 200 hens used in ear
lier trials rill be divided into four groups
kopt in 'the poultry house from October 1
to May 1 and allorcd to run outdoors in the
summer months. They'rill be fed the same
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all mash ration rith vaying amonts of Vita
min D, Special consideration rill be given
to records rith regard to egg production
and egg roi^it, shell roight and mortality
as affected by tho four rates of feeding.
There Hill be three projects in Agricul
tural Engineering. 0:.ie rill be the devel
opment of improved structures, equipment
and methods of handling and storing potatoes
so as to reduce weight and quality losses.
Eight to 12 per cent of Alaska’s white po
tato crop is unfit for i*o<, 1 grade because
of -mechanical injuries in harvesting,stor
ing, grading. Up to 10 percent of weight
is lost in storage because of shrinkage up
to the time that sprouting starts. The sr.oun
of potato loss through water shrinkage and
sprouting dopends upon the adoquacy of
storage temperatures and humidity regula
tions. The study looks to earlier maturing
of the tubers by vine killing before harvest
development of now harvesting methods and
equipment, improvement of containers and
improvement in storage air circulation,
temperature and humidity regulation.
In this project the Alaska experiment Sta
tion will cooperate with the Division of
Farm Buildings and Rural'Housing of the
Bureau of Plant industry, Soils and Agri
cultural Engineering The Ala ska Station'
will supply a garb time plant pathologist,
and one or two part-time hssistansts,crops
of potatoes and equipment. Tho Bureau of
Plant Industry -ill supply an agricultural
engineer onw>art time, and beginning the
second year, a full time associate agri
cultural engineer, an experimental harves
ter and other ecuipmant. The harvester
will be built for Alaska use at the Colo
rado Station. -
Another project -Till develop methods of
utilizing local'timber in building Alaska
farm structures. This rill have a five
year min mum. It rill bo carried on in
Palmer and Fairbanks.
Construction and comparison of several
types of houses may be combined rith pre
sent building program for 2:<porimcnt Sta
tion employees at Palmer. Her typos of con
struction rill utilize local timber’and
labor to a greater proportion than conven
tional frame construction and rill utilizo
local unseasoned timber similar to present
log construction. The study rill iiiclude
i such phases as prefabricating log houses,
calking materials for log houses,treating
preservation and surfacing timbers, use of
insulation, choice of furring and house
linings for cold Climates and heating.
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