EXTENSION NOTES CON'T
ir poultry. Mr. I.M.C. Anderson
was rcorested to give some informa
-ion on pig foedin_ to a class in
school following his lecture on
Nils program.
Ml School Home M. and Agr.
classes attended and appeared to
enjoy the programs.
There will be a meeting of the
stock holders of .the Matanuska Val
ley Fair Association in the Ex
tension office, February 12 to
elect new members to the Board of
birectors'. To have a vote you must
own a one dollar share of stock.
Now is your opportunity to improve
that inefficient fair board. If
you'don’t like the way the fair 3s
run, vote for the man you believe
can do a bettor job. You may rest
assured no member of the present
board will feel hurt by being thrown
out of a job on this board. In
fact for the past two years we have
been locking for the man who can
run a good fair with nothing with
which to work.
LAND LAE PLANNING COMMITTEE
Mooting Fob. 5, Extension of
fice. L s koop in mind that this
meeting is not the place to settle
problems between the farmer and the
A.R.R.C. or Co-op but to settle the
problems between the farmer and the
soil, wc-cithcr and mother nature.
The A.R.R.C. and Co-op problems
should be taken up with their man
agers and' Boards of Directors.
Following are some problems
which should be worked on at the
commodity group'and Land Use Plan
ning Committop mootings; 1. Coord
ination of production with market
needs. 2. Variation of soils and
their potentialities. 3. Kinds and
varieties to plant. 4. Erosion con
trol. 5, Kinds and amounts of fer
tilizers to apply. 6. How to pur
chase, and mix fertilizers, and
feeds to the farmers savings. 7. Ro
tation methods to use. 8. Flowing
versus disking and other tillage
problems. 9. Land clearing methods.
10. Pasture problems, tame and'wild.
(Con't on top of page)
Many others can be worked on
with out infringing upon farmers
problems with organizations which
can not bo settled at L.U.P.C, meet
ings if we argued for a week.
Recommendations, suggestions
and so forth must come to this com
mittee through some Comodity Group
or organization representative who
is a member of this committoe,
Howard 3stelle,
Dist. Extension Agent.
TAX BILLS PROPOSED BY GOV.GRUELING
In a message delivered before
a joint session of the House and
Senate at Juneau V/ednosday, Gov.
Hrncst Gruoning told legislators
that new taxes v/cre required to
raise needed revenues and also to
keep increasing that proportion of
Alaska wealth kept in Alaska for de
velopment, progress and improvement.
He suggested that the personal
income tax be set at two per cent
of one’s net income, with exemptions
similar to those under the federal
income tax law. Suggested exemptions
were :^1,000 for single persons,
*>2,000 for married persons, and $400
for each child or dependent. Men
paying the five dollar school tax
would bo credited for that amount
on their income taxes,
nee governor suggested a four
per cent levy on net income of cor
porations and a flat rate of 10
mills as a general property tax.
Besides recommending the three
new taxes, Governor Gruoning recom
mended abolishment of exemptions
under the present throe per cent
|tax on gross production of gold. He
set forth that the gold tax could
be considered a severance tax for
mineral taken, out of the ground is
gone forever from Alaska.
No change in the present three
per cent rate was recommended. It
really amounts to one dollar to be
paid into the territorial treasury
for every g35 ounce, of gold. Undo:-*
the governor’s proposal, this tar.
would be paid on every ounce extra' +
He estimated that more than
$5,000,000 worth of gold was taken
(Con’t on Page 5)