Soil Tests Reduce
Production Risks
Use Right Fertilizer
Where Most Needed
Using the right fertilizer where
it will do the most good will re
duce the risks in field crop pro
duction.
Whether little or much, it is
foolish to make the required in
vestment for seed, fertilizer, la
bor, etc., without having all the
information that can be obtained
readily about the soil on which
the crop is to be grown.
To get the maximum profits from
your soil have it tested. You may
be surprised how much it needs
and how little you have given it.
But it is important to use the
right fertilizer when and where
it will do the most good. Take
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report of your soil test and your
cropping history to your county
agent and get his advice about
seeds and fertilizer.
Soil testing is not an exact sci
ence, but it serves as a pretty
sound indicator of nutrients in the
soil. That’s a long step toward
success in crop production.
And it is well to remember
th^t over-doses of fertilizer can
be as harmful to a crop as the
right amount can be helpful.
Researchers Report
On Broiler Production
Researchers at the Oklahoma
Agricultural Experiment Station
report that for maximum income
from broiler production, it is es
sential that the broiler house be
used at its maximum capacity.
In other words, the number of
broilers per square foot of floor
space must be kept as high as pos
sible without reducing growth rate
or efficiency of feed conversion.
Where good management prac
tices are followed, three-fourths of
a square foot of floor space per
broiler should be economically
sound in both summer and winter,
they report.
One square foot of floor space
per broiler would be the recom
mendation where management
practices are not up to standard,
where there are frequent disease
outbreaks, or where housing con
ditions are less satisfactory.
The type of management being
practiced, and the skill of the poul
tryman in charge of the broiler op
ist be considered in
r floor space recom
they say. Where man
actices are not up to
id disease outbreaks
terable trouble one
square foot of floor space or even
more may be required.
Shelter for Layers
The University of Illinois poul
try specialists recommend shelter
at night, shade during the day and
plenty of eating and drinking
space for those pullets you want
to develop into good layers. A
range shelter with wire-covered
sides will keep your chicks more
comfortable and healthy than a
brooder house in summer. It will
give good shade and allow plenty
of free air movement both day
and night.
In a community of 25,000 popu
lation about 100 persons at one
time will be under treatment for
cancer, the American Cancer So
ciety estimates.
RANDOM RAMBLINGS OUT WASILLA WAY
By E. Hjellen
HAPPY NEW YEAR!
Then there’s the day after, too.
* * *
The Oscar Andersons at Big
Lake held a Swedish Smorgasbord
on New Years. Did you know that
Smorgasbord means butter and
bread in both Swedish and Nor
wegian? When you go to a real
ly correct Scandinavian smorgas
bord, though, you are getting the
finest dishes—each woman, for
miles around—prepares that dish
for which she is the most noted—
the one she makes the best. It’s
correct, too, to leave a little on
your plate. That means that the
food was so good, you stuffed
yourself to the point where you
just couldn’t eat any more.
* * *
“Pat" Smith was a visitor to
Wasilla over the New Year cele
bration. She’s employed in Anch
orage by the Dick Chace Photo
Shop.
* * *
Miss Louise Potter made a
jaunt to the University of Alas
ka at College to visit over the
Christmas and New Years holi
day with friends. Miss Potter,
one of our local high school in
structors, was formerly Dean of
Women at the U. of A.
* * *
Among the people going north
after Christmas were: The “Bud”
Brownes to Cantwell; Eddie
Byers to Willow, and Mrs. Edna
Borigo to Curry. Mrs. Borigo is
teaching at Curry but was able
to get away for a visit with her
long-time friend, Mrs. Slumberg
er at Wasilla.
* * *
Some of those at the Wasilla
Depot to see friends and relatives
off were: Betty LaPours, Charles
Cadwallader, Mary, Judy and
Linda Bergman, Clara Slumber
ger, and Keith Tryck. Mr. Henry
' was on hand to handle the mail
r and give Tommy Wyse (the ag
t ent) a hand. Mr. Davies waved
from the baggage car as the train
■ pulled out—darned if I know
' where he “snuck” off to..
i * * *
L I was in the Frontier Cafe in
Palmer when I spotted Elmer
Hixon of the Eureka Lodge. We
\ “shot the breeze” about things
in general. He wanted to be re
membered to the Clyde Thorpes
of Wasilla. Since her injury to
her hip over a year ago. Mrs.
Thorp has been confined to her
home, but is able to move about
within by grasping the furniture.
* * *
Do you think you could have
lasted out in the open for three
days during our last bitter ses
sion? Troop No. 619 of Wasilla
Boy Scouts did. They went out
on the 19th and returned on the
21st. Lawrence Dryden, Jimmie
Byers, Wally Teeland, Don Car
ter. “Skippy” Coglin and Gil
Hjellen went out with their
Scoutmaster “Swede” Sorepson.
Brrrrrrr.
*. * *
Marriage is a partnership—fifty
fifty—give and take. I give my
wife my paycheck and she takes
it.
* * *
“Vince” Smith returned the
Monday after Chirstmas to Wil
low to his work with the rail
road. His good wife Della went
along for the trip. They were both
down for the New Year, however.
“Vince” usually works out of
Grain Bunk
The type of grain bunk pic
tured above has proved very
practical for small calves. It is
only 18 inches high and three
2 x 8’s wide. Then, too, it can
be used for yearlings or any of
the cattle. Many cattlemen use
this same type bunk in their
barns. If it is to be placed
against a wall the legs on one
side should be extended 20
inches to that a back of one
inch lumber can be added—it
, will save feed.
Wasilla, but he’s low man on the
local seniority listing, so when
the winter lay-off went into ef
fect, he ‘‘bumped” into Willow.
That seniority list is tough to
buck when you’re starting—but
its nice to have after a few years.
* * »
People complain that our gov
ernmental Alaska Railroad is not
self supporting—that it needs an
appropriation each year to oper
ate. Pray tell me—what is the
difference between a subsidy and
an appropriation? Besides, the Al
1 aska Railroad doesn’t declare a
dividend after receiving their
appropriation.
* * *
Ted Mommsen, section fore
man at Wasilla, and his crew
were putting up a snowfence on
the south end of Lake Wasilla to
keep the snowdrifts off the rail
road track. Hope this works—a
lot of other things have been
tried.
(Three days later) It didn’t.
* * *
Bonnie Ulrich, Beverly Prather,
Beverly LaPours, Linda LaPours,
Sally Betts, Carol Nelson, Sally
Carson, Patsy Green and Susan
Hjellen—all girl scouts—were
guests of Peggy Maley at the
Wasilla Roadhouse for a pajama
party.
Can you hear the “yakity-yak”
of nine short-teenage girls—all
thru the night? Well Don Short
did.
Don Short was down from Fair
banks for a visit with his broth
er, Lloyd but when he learned
Lloyd was up in the hills, he
registered at the roadhouse for.
the night. Couldn’t turn it off like
a radio, huh, Don.
* * *
Children have a remarkably
keen memory. When ours are
taken to task for leaving the
butter, jam, etc., out in the open
—each one - can remember dis
tinctly that they were not the
last one to use them.
* * *
Joan Nunley celebrated her
tenth birthday anniversary. Bev
erly and Linda LaPours, Alice
and Susie Hjellen, Helen Carter,
Sue Henry, Ediane Olson, Linda
Bergman and big brother Freddie
helped her cross the day off at a
party at the Nunley’s, decorated
in the Oriental motif.
* * *
Jerry Screnson, Fred Nunley,
Bob Pennington and Gary Hjellen
with their partners Linda La
Pours and Rose Waldram had an
Explorer Scout get together at
the Wasilla school. Their adviser,
Ray Bergman, showed four Dis
ney cartoons. Refreshments were
prepared and served by the boys
* * *
My nomination to the “mean
est man in town” club goes to
the guy who stole the battery
from the jeep belonging to the
O Check family. Bill just came
home from the hospital the other
day, but will be restricted to his
bedside for a long period ahead.
* * *
Something new is added to
Wasilla. Eve Jenkins has opened
a childrens apparel shop in the
roadhouse. She handles a com
plete line of yardage, ready-made
childrens’ wear and other com
Fall Run Salmon
Planted in
Alaskan Creeks
C. L. Anderson, director of the
Alaska Department of Fisheries,
announced the fourth of a series
of annual king salmon egg plant
ing experiments. Fifty thousand
eyed eggs from fall run king sal
mon were planted in Montana
and Spring Creeks, near Juneau,
on December 13. The eggs were
donated by the Washington State
Department of Fisheries after
they had incubated to the eyed
stage at the Soos Creek Hatchery
near Seattle. The eggs were air
freighted to Juneau on December
12. Mild weather conditions pro
vided ideal conditions on the
streams Tor planting the eggs.
The purpose of the egg-plant
ing experiment is to determine
whether fall run king salmon can
adapt themselves to the small riv
ers of the Territory. At present
there are no fall run king salmon
in Alaska. If the planting is suc
cessful in fostering a return of
fish to the streams, the program
will be expanded.
If the young kings can thrive
to maturity—eluding their enem
ies and man, the return from the
first planting should occur in the
fall of 1954.
HEINIE SNIDER
TO SEEK RE-ELECTION
Gerrit (Heinie) Snider of Wasil
la announced in Anchorage last
week that he plans to seek re
election to the territorial Senate.
Senator Snider a Republican,
served in the past two legislatures
as senator, was president of the
Senate and chairman of the min
ing and manufacturing commit
tee. He makes his home in Was
illa and is a long-time employe
of the Alaska Road Commission.
plementary items. The young
lady is from Waco, Texas where
she was employed in this type of
.work.
Where is this Texas, anyway?
Is that a country in Oklahoma?
* * *
I never knew how much nerve*
it took to be a cop—until I saw
one borrow a pen from a motorist
—to write him a ticket.
BROWN'S WILL
REMOVE IT!
You're making a salad. Then
—slip! Splash! There goes
a red. ripe tomato on your
new dress or blouse. It's
hard to get out, loo . . .
but not if you send the
soiled garment to us. We
carefully removed all such
"hard to take out" stains
and return the article to
you as good as new.
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NOTES FROM YOUR
j EXTENSION SERVICE
By Richard Blue
We have just received a bullet
in entitled 1953 Farmer’s Income
Tax. This 32-page publication ex
plains in detail and gives exam
ples of the two most important
systems, the cash and accrual
methods*
As you probably know the De
partment of Internal Revenue us
ually sends a representative to
the Valley to assist farmers in fill
ing out their returns.
We have also just received cop
ies of the new 1954 ACP hand
books. You may receive an appli
cation and handbook at the Ex
tension Service office or by con
tacting a committeeman in your
area. The committeemen are:
John Nash, Arne Carson, Clifton
Grover, Ted White, and Leonard
Moffitt.
Frederick C. Lincoln, special
assistant to the director of the
Fish and Wildlife Service, has
been awarded an honorary mem
bership in Denmark’s leading or
nithological association, the Dan
sk Ornithologisk.
A hand-inscribed certificate and
a silver medal represent the
Danish organization’s apprecia
tion of Mr. Lincoln’s contribu
tions, on an international scale,
to the science of birds.
FILM, "HOW FIRM A
FOUNDATION" TO BE
SHOWN JANUARY 9
The Christian film, “How Firm
A. Foundation,” tells the story of
Lee Toms, a high school senior
from Long Beach, California,
whose apparently accidental con
tact with the old fashioned re
vival hour, at Long Beach be
gan a chain of events which pro
foundly disturbed not only his
own life, but the lives of many
others around him. The story of
Lee Toms is not'fiction but fact
which, as always, is stranger and
more stirring than fiction could
ever be.
During the film, goers will get
a glimpse into Fuller Theological
Seminary at Pasadena, Calif., as
cvell as into the Municipal Audi
torium at Long Beach, during
which time the fingers of world
famous Rudy Atwood at the piano
console will be seen. The quartet
singing “Look Away to Heaven”
and the choir singing “Jesus
Saves” will also be shown. The
film contains scenes from Africa,
the Near East, and South Ameri
ca.
“How Firm a Foundation” will
be shown at 8:00 p.m. Saturday,
January 9 at the Church of God.
The public is cordially invited to
attend. A free-will offering to
! ward the building program of the
Fuller Seminary will be taken.
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