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MARSHALL SELOVER, Manager
Matanuska Valley Fair Association
Anyone holding tickets issued by the Mata
nuska Valley Fair Association which were pur
chased at Bert’s Drug Store is asked to contact
the fair manager for verification. This is necessary
because records were destroyed in the recent fire.
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New Breeding Program
Builds Milk Profits
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An experiment in test tube
breeding of milk cows, which
began in the United States in
the state of New Jersey just 10
years ago, already has grossed
the nation’s dairy farmers an
extra million dollars a year.
New Jersey dairymen recently
compiled figures which show
that the new program, which
permits the use of only the high
est quality bulls, has produced
cows whose records show their
milk income has climbed almost
$35 apiece annually.
The experiment began when
100 farmers in three New Jer
sey counties organized to form
the New Jersey Cooperative Ar
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tificial Breeding Association,
Unit No. 1—the first of its kind
in the United States.
Extension agent Enos J. Per
ry of New Jersey State College,
pioneered the work after a year
of study in Denmark.
Now, 10 years after the organ
igation of that first co-operative,
there are 886 other cooperatives
in 42 states of the union. There
are 1,800,000 cows enrolled in
the new breeding program.
Alaska’s first artificial breed
ing cooperative, the Matanuska
Valley Dairyman’s Association,
only recently was organized. Dr.
William Sweetman of fhe ex
periment station is in charge of
the Valley’s dairy program.
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Territory Still
Calls For More
Nome Rate Cuts
New tariff rates filed by the
Lomen Commercial Co., last
week, in compliance with an or
der of the United States Maritime
Commission requiring a decrease
in rates for lighterage at Nome
still doesn’t please the territory
of Alaska.
The territory has petitioned
the Maritime Commission to sus
pend two items in the new tariff,
which, it is maintained, really
represent increases rather than
decreases. The Alaska Develop
ment Board, in a recent release,
says heavy groceries would go
up four cents per hundred
pounds under the new tariff and
light groceries would go up seven
cents per hundred pounds. The
new rate on cigars and tobacco
is estimated to be an advance of
11 per cent.
The territory has petitioned
that the lighterage concern be
made to comply fully with the
order to reduce rates. It asks that
the tariff reductions on explo
sives, electric signs, furniture
and lumber, which do represent
decreases, go into effect at once.
VALLEY
VISITORS
At the Lodge:
Harold Morton, Palmer; Dinty
Moore, Anchorage; T. W. Ross,
Gulkana; Charles Frost, Louis
ville, Ky.; King Milligan, Desh
ler, Ohio; Ernest Merriman,
Broad Pass; Marilyn Johnson,
Anchorage; George Black, Pal
mer; Henry Shaffer, Lydonville,
Vt.; Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Loomis,
Ojai, Calif.
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