Starter Fertilizer
Is Not Enough
- Nutrient Reserve
v Important Factor
Adding a starter fertiliser at
planting time is like serving an ap
petizer before dinner. You. have to
provide a “main course" If you
expect your crops to be well fed. i
Some farmers figure they have
done the whole job when' they put
in the starter fertilizer. The start
er gives the plants quick early
growth. But by itself the starter
fertilizer cannot provide enough
nourishment to carry the crop
through to maturity.
To do an all-season job of feed
ing crops, the soil must have a re
serve of nutrients. Otherwise the
plants will starve in midsummer.
First step in assuring a well
stocked “pantry” of nutrients, is
to have your soil tested. The test
will tell you what nutrients are
Starter fertilizer will only
start your crop, not carry it
through the summer.
lacking and how much are needed
to provide crops with a balanced
supply of nitrogen, phosphate,
and potash.
Best way to fit the soil for maxi
mum returns from fertilizer is to
build up its organic matter con
tent. This can be done by growing
legumes such as alfalfa or sweet
clover regularly in the rotation
and feeding them plenty of ferti
lizer. The organic matter added by
the legumes repairs damaged soil
structure and improves drainage.
When tilth, drainage and ventila
tion are good, crop roots can do
their job of feeding the growing
plant.
HEINZLEMAN LENDS
SUPPORT
B. Frank Heinzleman, recently
recommended for Alaska gover
nor, has assured railbelt residents
of his unqualified support of the
proposed Susitna hydro-electric
project.
The Anchorage Chamber of
Commerce received word from
Robert Reeve who talked with
Heintzelman in Washington, D. C.
Reeve reported Heintzleman as
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CONSERVATION
NOTES
By Lew Hanks
Today I’m plugging for some
thing besides conservation. I am
putting in a word for the efforts
for our local telephone committee
to organize a Rural Telephone As
sociation. They are making a
membership survey and sign up
now. When sufficient signers are
obtained a telephone association
will be incorporated and a loan
applied for from the R. E. A. This
■ loan will be for the purpose of
supplying the area with telephone
coverage. Residential telephone
service in urban areas is a very
convenient thing. Good complete
service in rural farming areas is
more than a convenience.. It’s a
mighty important business neces
sity.
How many times have you
dairy men missed a heat period
on a milk cow or lost stock be
cause of the time it took to per
sonally get word to the veterin
arian or inseminator? How much
valuable time was spent running
around delivering messages that
could have been done in one
minute by telephone? How often
have you had half a harvest crew
standing around waiting while
you tried to run down the rest
of the help that was unable to
to show up because of some rea
son? All those things cost us
money. They cost the entire com
munity money because we all
have to live and work in a com
munity pattern.
Community wide telephone
communication will be another
progressive step forward for the
Valley. Give your support to the
telephone committee and sign
that membership application. In
cidentally did you ever think of
having to spend twenty or thirty
minutes driving into town while
leaving a sick baby at home or a
house or barn on fire. I’ve talked
to people that have. They say it’s
no fun.
extending his complete support
and his advise that an economic
survey be expedited immediately.
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PLAN ANNUAL BAKE
AND FANCY-WORK SALE
Members of the Women of the
Moose, have started their plans
for the annual bake and fancy
work sale to be held Saturday,
May 9.
Falling on the Saturday before
Mother’s Day, members have an
nounced there will be many em
broidered items including pillow
cases, aprons and luncheon sets.
Many of these items will make
nice gifts, they suggested.
The sale will be held all day
Saturday at Grasser’s Hardware
from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Fresh home
made pastries and breads will also
be offered for sale by the group.
UNIVERSITY PRESENTS
THREE SCHOLARSHIPS
Three scholarships have been
presented to students attending
the University of Alaska by N. F.
Shaw, president of N. F. Shaw,
Incorporated, of Anchorage and
Fairbanks, it was announced by
the University Scholarship Com
mittee last week.
The winners are Mayanne
Lemp, daughter of Captain Lemp
stationed at Oakland, California,
Byron Colson, son of Colonel Col
son stationed in Alabama and
Jean Graves, daughter of Antone
Anderson, a long time resident of
the Territory, now living in An
chorage.
These scholarships are for a
total of $1,000, namely $333 for
each winner and is estimated to
cover about three-quarters of the
cost of a full semester at the
University, for fees, room and
board.
ADB ASKS RESTORATION OF,
49 MILLION ACRE RESERVE I
Restoration of 49 milion-acre
Naval Petroleum Reserve of
Northern Alaska to the public
domain has been proposed by the
Alaska Development Board in
the wake of the Navy’s decision
to discontinue oil explorations in
the area.
The Board also requested that j
data from the investigations of
the past nine years be made avail
able to the public and that per
mission be granted to pipe natur
al gas to Fairbanks tffrom the
Umiat area where it is under
stood to have been discovered in
quantity. *
“This natural gas,” the Board
wrote, “may have sufficient value
for industrial and domestic heat
ing purpose to justify construc
tion of a pipeline to Fairbanks.
Our Board has done some prelim
inary work on such a proposal
. . . Development of natural gas
would give considerable impetus
to the economy of Interior Alaska
and by so- doing would, we feel,
strengthen this vital area from
a security standpoint.”
Record Collection at Seward
The total figure for Seward’s
March of Dimes represented the
largest contribution to date for
polio ever made in that city,
sponsors of the drive announced.
A total of $2,366,87 was raised
from business house, organiza
tions, iron lungs, the public
school and a March of Dimes
dance.
Approximately 18 men and
women have registered for am
bulance and first aid duty in Sew
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ard where Volunteer Ambulance
Corps ahd first aid training are
being organized. It is the aim of
the Ambulance Corps to have a
j new full equipped and modern
I vehicle. In the mean time, the
present machine is being repaired
and painted.
Wedding Gifts
REVERE WARE - GE STEAM IRONS
RADIOS - ELECTRIC CLOCKS - DISHES
Large assortment of Household Hems
Free Gift Wrapping and Delivery
Service to Church or Reception
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