Farm Wives Tell
Home Preferences
Families Much Alike
In Home They Want
A recent survey of approximate
ly 4,000 farm operator families in
42 states revealed that more than
half of those interviewed, in all
.sections of the country, have sim
ilar likes and dislikes of what
should constitute a farm home.
More than half of those inter
viewed preferred a one-story house
with a basement and two porches.
Of those who wanted a house more
than one story, most desired a
loathroom and at least one bed
room on the first floor.
Spaciousness, a view, and
plenty of light in the living
room area was the expressed
desire of many of the farm
women interviewed.
Farm women were unanimous in
their desire for a separate dining
room, plus eating space in the
kitchen.
Ninety per cent of those inter
viewed do all or most of the fam
ily washing at home and em
phasized the need for laundry
space.
Similarity in regional housing
preferences began with the type
of house itself. Over half of the
families in the west, north central,
and southern areas preferred cl
one-story house with a basement
and two porches. Almost two
thirds of southern families added
a fireplace.
Families in the northeast pre
ferred a house with more than one
story, still including the basement,
two porches, fireplace, and also
an attic.
Church Plans Family
Pot Luck for March 15
A St. Patrick’s family pot
luck will be held by the parishon
ers of St. Michael’s Catholic
Church on Sunday, March 15
from 12:30 p.m. until 2:30 p.m.
Food will be served family
style in the church basement.
Each family is asked to take a
hot covered-dish.
A program of games and other
entertainment has been planned,
following the meal.
CONSERVATION
NOTES
By Lew Hanks
I attended a Soil Conservation
sub-district meeting in Fairbanks
the last few days of last week. It
was interesting to talk to the
farmers. They have their prob
lems too.
One of the worst of their prob
lems is the shortage of domestic
water supply in a large part of
the area. Most of the farmers
would like to start accumulating
a few head of stock, but the water
situation there says, “No.” Wells
are often deep, expensive to drill,
and the water is limited or of
poor quality. As a consequence,
wells are scarce outside of the
valley floor.
They do have a big advantage
on the land clearing situation.
Most of the country has been
burned over and the timber is
small. The standard practice is
to bulldoze the land when the
ground is frozen with the blade
set at an angle. They just keep
on going around a field shearing
and windrowing brush all the
time. No time is lost then in
backing up. They use a brush
blade on the dozer to pile up the
brush. .A breaking plow is used
to turn up the roots. Land there
can often be cleared, brush burn
ed, and the land prepared for til
lage for a total cost of not over
eighty dollars an acre. That’s
about half of what it costs here.
The bulk of their commercial
production is potatoes, yields
averaging about a third less than
ours. They’re a progressive group
and very interested in conserva
tion methods of soil management
and in increasing production.
They’re clearing quite a bit of
land and improving their farm
set ups. They will be quite a fac
tor in Alaska farm economy from
now on.
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Experiment Station Tests,
Alaskan gardeners not only
have to plant seed, but the right
seed to harvest vegetables for
the dinner table, root cellar and
home freezer.
Early tests of the Horticultural
Department of the Alaska Ex
periment Station have shown
promise for these vegetable var
ieties: Contender variety of
green-podded bean, Green Top
Bunching beet, Oakview Ball
head cabbage (late, as trans
plants), Alaska lettuce, Tender
heart parsnip, Knik potato,
Northern Hybrid tomato (green
house), and two rutabaga variet
ies—a yellow-fleshed Waltham
Yellow and a white-fleshed Bris
tol White. Further tests will be
made in both the Matanuska and
Tanana Valleys. .
Varieties already proven suc
cessful in the Territory include
Top Crop and Streamliner green
podded bean and Cherokee Wax
bean: Early Wonder and Detroit
Dark Red beet: Waltham No. 29
broccoli; Catskill brussels
sprouts; Golden Acre early cab
bage, Copenhagen Market and
Midseason Market cabbage, and
Bonanza and Glory of Enkhuizen
late cabbage; Strong Top Nantes,
Touchon and Red cored Chant
enay carrots; Super Snowball
early and Snowdrift main crop
cauliflower; Utah celery; High
mor and Marketer greenhouse
cucumber, Extra Early Russian
and Earliest of All outdoor cu
cumber.
Others are New Hampshire and
Black Beauty greenhouse egg
plant; Deep Heart Fringed en
dive; Bohemian horseradish;
Dwarf Green Curled kale; Early
White Vienna kohlrabi; Grand
Rapids and Slowbolt leaf lettuce,
Cornell early head and Premier
Great Lakes late head lettuce:
Long White Bunching onion and
, Perennial Tree (Egyptian) peren
nial onion; Dwarf Curled parsley;
Short Thick and Hollow Crown
(Guernsey) parsnip; Alaska extra
early peas, Freezonian and Giant
Laxonian mid-season and freez
ing peas; Penn wonder greenhouse
peppers. ,
Ontario and Pawnee early po
tato, Kennebec and Arctic Seed
ling late potato; Crimson Giant
and Cherry Belle red round rad
ish, Icicle white long radish; Gol
den Neckless and Improved Am
erican Purple Top yellow-fleshed
rutabaga; New Zealand and Per
petual (beet spinach) spinach;
Caserta and Zucchini summer
squash; Lucullus and Fordhook
Giant swiss chard; Purple Top
Strap Leaf and Early White Mil
an early turnip and Petrowski
late turnip.
Many of these standard vari
eties may be available through
local sources, the Alaska Exten
sion Service, the Alaska Seed
Company of Anchorage or state
side firms.
Carpenter*. Remember 1
Carpenters Local 2251
Meet* 2nd and 4th Wednesday
Each Month
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ANCHORAGE, ALASKA
ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR
ATTENS EXTENSION
MEETING IN UTAH
Lynn O. Hollist, associate di
rector of the Extension Service
at the University of Alaska, was
in Salt Lake City last week at the
Western States Extension Direc
tors conference. Hollist stopped in
Corvallis, Oregon to extend an
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invitation to Jean Scheel, associ
ate director of the Extension Ser
vice at Oregon State College, to
attend the Alaska Territorial con
ference to be held at the Uni
versity of Alaska from March 24
to 26.
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