Farmers’ Woes Are
Multiple lo Alaska,
Committee Finds
Alaska’s agricultural problems
range from determining what the
land is good for, how to instruct
the settler to build his home and
farm buildings, how to finance
that settler until his farm is
brought into production, to how
to find' a market for the farm
products he raises, the territorial
advisory committee of the U. S.
Department of Agriculture found
last week.
Sandwiched in with the pure
existence problems are related
headaches of pest and disease
control, weed control, soil erosion
and soil conservation problems,
improvement of strains of plants
and animals and educational and
information problems.
The problem of particular in
terest to the Agricultural Re
search Administration, and one
on which it is intended to do
some serious pondering in the
very near future, is that of human
nutrition, according to Don L Ir
win.
The ARA is now seeking a nu
tritionist to head that part of its
research work. Once the person
nel problem is solved, the Alaska
Native Service, Department of
Public Health and the University
of Alaska will be asked to meet
with ARA All three are study
ing human nutrition in Alaska,
and it is the ARA intention to
correlate its work so that there
will be no duplication of effort.
The ARA is particularly inter
ested in studying the relative
food value and vitamin content of
Alaskan and states-grown vege
tables.
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son than the MVFCA. and that
the Co-Op members be required
to conform to the terms of their
marketing contract
The suit also asks for a full and
complete accounting of all milk
sold outside of the Co-Op. The
individual suits set forth the date
on which the farmer began mar
keting through the Alaska Dairy,
and the specific daily milk pound
age so marketed.
Beginning about mid- October,
the six Co-Op dairymen named
together with Victor Falk, Jr.,
Miss Louise Kellogg and Chet
Liebing, abandoned the MVFCA
as their marketing agent and be
gan to sell milk through the Alas
ka Dairy. The producers say the
increased price for milk offered
by the Alaska Dairy makes it
economically impossible to con
tinue with the Co-Op as their
marketing agent
Although Co-Op heads felt it
impossible to increase the price
of milk to farmers in October,
manager James Wilson last week
announced an increase to $10.50
per cwt., in the base price of
milk.
The particular grievance of
many of the daii'ymen was that
although the Co-Op had increased
the retail price of milk, the pro
ducer was given the benefit of
less than half of that increase.
SCS Board To Meet Here
The territorial board of the Soil
Conservation Service will hold
its annual meeting in Palmer dur
ing the wee kof Jan 9, it was an
nounced this v.eek by Chairman
Frank Linn. The exact date of
that meeting will be announced
next week, Mr. Linn said.
Few experiences surpass w beauty that hush of
wonderful expectancy that falls
truer the home on Christmas eve. This season
of 1949 holds that in store for you.
CO-OP WAREHOUSE
Palmer, Alaska
SCS Sub-District
To Elect Next Week
An election or the Palmer sub
district of the Soil Conservation
Service is scheduled for next
week, it was announced today by
Frank Linn, chairman of the ter
torial SCS board. The election
will fill one vacancy on the sub
district’s board of supervisors,
that of Clair Patten Mr. Pat
ten’s term of office expires at this
time.
A nominating committee has
suggested the names oi Joe L?ntz
and Mr. Patten as candidates for
the vacancy Voters also will be
given the opportunity to write in
the name of a candidate of their
choice.
The election will be conducted
at the Extension Office, Tuesday,
Dec. 27, through Friday, Dec. 20
All land occupiers within the
area of the Palmer sub-district
are eligible voters in this elec
tion.
I
v'-'-n
~ihe vttg fact that ^htiitmal
is with ui again ought to
hting jog tnough, hut we
want to gild the lilg hg u/iihing
evttgont a wondetfal hohdag.
SHAMROCK LOUNGE
Palmer, Alaska
Say, folks, you last-min
ute shoppers still can
find all kinds of items
from my approved list at
Vabietif Vo<fOe.4,
We of Variety Vogues take this opportunity to
wish all of our customers a very Merry Christmas
and a happy holiday season.
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