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“MATANUSKA MAID”
PRODUCTS
Vol. II No. 5
PALMER, ALASKA, DECEMBER 4, 1936
PRICE 10 CENTS
Sheely Due Back
About The 12th.
Mr. Sheely is due to leave
Seattle by the SS Arctic which
is scheduled to sail the 5th. This
should bring him home about the
12th.
Mr. Sheely reports that his trip
to Washington was ‘successful.’
This, it is interpreted here, means
that mo:e money will be forth
coming to complete construction
and clearing schedules.
Palmer Film To
Be Shown Friday
A short excerpt from the Para
mount harvest film taken here
just before Thanksgiving will be
on the screen at Friday’s show.
“Tne Cowboy Millionaire,”
starring George O’Brien, will be
t te feature and a two reel
cimedy, “Managed Money,’’ to
gether with a song reel, “The
Last Dogie,” round out the pro
gram.
The Christmas show featuring
Shirley Temple in “Our Little
Girl,” will be shown Wednesday,
Dec. 23, immediately following
the Chr stmas program.
Scouts To Get Prizes
To stimulate competition
among the local Scouts, Ed Cronin
has offered a $3.50 sending set
as first, and a $1.50 set as second
prize to the Boy Scout learning
to send and receive the Inter
national Morse telegrapher’s code
the most expertly before the first
of the year.
Matanuska Valley
Mission Open
Reverend"D. W. Patterson is
well along with the completion
of his new church up on Finger
Lake Road in the Bugge Addi
tion.
The Church, known as the
Matanuska Valley Mission (not
Pentacostal), holds services as
follows:
Sunday School, 10 a. m.
Preaching Service, 11 a. m.
There is also a Wednesday
prayer meeting held at 7:30 in
the evening.
Bruno Ueeck Back
Bruno Ueeck has just arrived
back from the Chickaloon dis
trict where he has some placer
prospects on Separation Creek,
the same stream upon which
E. W. Barry Buys
The Bogard Place
E. W. Barry, colonist of tract
140, has purchased the old
Bogard place from A. J. Swanson.
The farm contains 301 acres, 2.'0
of which is fenced with hog-proof
wire and 58 ol which was under
crop this year.
The land has a half mile of
frontage on Finger Lake and
Cottonwood Cre< k luns through a
portion of it. The purchase price
was reported as $2500.
Business Is Good
Mrs Edith Rose, proprietress
of the recently opened fountain
lunch and chili parlor in the
Dunk lee Building, reports busi
ness good in spite of the fact that
men have been pouring out of
camp since the stringent cutting
Oi crews.
A feature of the new place,
which is known as “The Rose
Bowl,’ that will be popular with
Palmer residents is the small
banquet room at the rear where
p;ivate dinner parties will be
served.
Another Colonist
Family Arrives
Herbert Caulkins, with his wife
and tour sons, arrived this week
from their former home at Win
nett, Montana, and are now in
stalled at tract 74, the place
formerly occupied by Chancey
Poore.
The Caulkins children, the old
est of which is five, were all
suffering from severe colds when
they arrived and were taken to
tl e hospital for treatment.
Mr. Caulkin6 says he hasn't
been here long enough to really
form an opinion about the valley
yet, but as far as he h s seen
and heard it looks pretty good to
him.
Father Woodely lost his life in
i the fall of ’32 while sheep
i hunting.
| Bruno turned his pack horses
i loose and for the past month
they have foraged for them
selves, but you’d never know it
to see them. Even after the
tough trip out, during the
storm, they are in fine shape
and look like stall-fed animals.
Bruno has spent most of this
season building a relay cabin
and getting ready for further
prospecting next year. He is
very positive in his assertion
that the country has fine min
ing possibilities.
Proper Poultry Care
Is Important Problem
—
From Joe Flakne, District
I Agricultural Agent, comes a few
i pertinent tips on the caring and
feeding of poultry. Joe says:
.fust a few reminders regarding
the care of poultry. Knowing
that you have been very busy
with harvesting and barn build
ing, possibly many important
things in the care of poultry have
been forgotten or neglected.
Keep your poultry house dry,
well ventilated, and free from
drafts at all times. A damp
poorly ventilated hen house is a
breeding place for colds and will
cause you great losses
Never overcrowd. 3 1-2 square
feet of floor space is necessary
for leghorns and 4 1-2 for the
heavier breeds.
In some of the 16 x 2') hen
houses where 20 to 50 hens are
kept it may be necessary to sup
ply artificial heat. Do this when
necessary, but never close all of
the cloth-covered ventilators
above tire windows. Remember
fresh air is ntcessary for good
health. If the hen house is cold
hang a ctmain made of burlap or
canvas in front of the roosts at
night.
Cleanliness must he observed
! at all times to insure good health
and egg production. Be sure to
remove all droppings and litter
at least once a week.
Feeding laying hens: Keep a
supply of warm water before the
hens at: all times. If milk is
available feed it regularly. It
may be easier to feed sour milk |
because the chickens’ bowels are
easily upset by feeding sweet
milk one day and sour milk the
next.
| Feed 2-3 of the scratch ration
at night and 1-3 in the morning
Keep a gred laying mash be
fore the hens at all times. Fresh
1 mash should be fed every day.
The mash should be fed in a
hopper to prevent waste and to
keep it clean so that the hens
will not become infested with
worms and other parasites.
The scratch ration should be
fed in a deep litter so as to keep
the hens working.
Green feed in the form of
cabbage, carrots, or sprouted oats
should be fed each day Best
results are obtained if the vege
! tables are hung up by a string so
| as to keep them clean and to
i make the hens work.
| Regularity in feeding is essen
! tial to success.
Hens need certain minerals so
give them plenty of oystershell
; and grit (gravel). It will also
! pay you to keep them supplied
with burned bone, charcoal, and
coal.
Make their work day longer by
An Observation
By Don Irwin
Here’s a little observation
made by Don Irwin November
11 at the Community Hall.
“Armistice Day. Two bud
dies wearing overseas caps met.
‘Hello, Harry,’ says one. ‘Hel
lo Harry, yourself,’ replied the
other. Off came the two caps
in sweeping salute, and lo! two
bald heads appeared. Both
grinned and shook hands.
A little older; crinkles at the
corners of the eyes and seams
in their faces where Time is be
ginning to write its story. Yet
in that brief greeting is a calm
acceptance of conditions as they
come. The same spirit that car
ried those buddies, and all the
buddies, through the fire trying
days of eighteen and twenty
years ago. A lesson to us all to
go down the road into the ad
venture of life, heads up and
New Plumbing Shop
Open For Business
Bill Taylor and George Sander
son have both left the ARKC and
are now in the plumbing and
sheet-metal business for them
selves. They are prepared to in
stall anything you may need in
their line and would appreciate
a chance to bid on all jobs.
Home-Makers Meet
The Home-Makers Club held its
last meeting on Tuesday, Dec.
1, at the home of Mrs. John
Pfeiff, and hereafter will be held
regularly on the first Tuesday of
each month at the homes of its
members, which to date numbers
13.
hanging a lantern in the coop
morning and night.
“Take two buckets, one filled
with feed, and the other with
common sense, and give a liberal
amount of each.”
It will pay to keep the hens in
the house from now until spring.
If they are permitted to run out
side they may develope colds
and their egg production will be
checked.
Should your hens develop a
cold remove the cause and give
them some B. K. powder or
potassium permanganate in the
drinking water. (1 teaspoontul
of B. K. powder to 3 gallons
water. If potassium per
manganate is used put what you
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