THE VALLEY SETTLER.e is published
every Ft iday by the1 1.1 at anus ka •
Valley Farmer’s Cooperating Asso
ciation at Palmer, Alaska.
Mng, Editor: Irving Ncwvillo
Subscription rates: Slo00 year
By mai1: 1.75 y ar
Mailed anywhere: .10 copy
This paper is issued for the
purpose of giving information
and news of the Latanuska Valley
Farmer’s Cooperating Associa
tions work, problems, accomp
lishments, also news of local
and general inter.st; and to
foster the cooperative spirit
of the Farmers of the Matanuska
Valley.
NT./ CREAME Y EQUIPMFEi IFSTALLED
A now bottling machine, the
last word in sanitary mll.k hand
ling equipment has boon installed
in the Co-op Creamery in Palmer,
the last week.
Mi lk delivered to the plant
is received in the weighing room
pumped' through se.nitr.ry pipes to
the storage tank, then to the
pasteurizer, from the pasteurizer
to the cooler and on into the
now Automatic Hachinef where the
gleaming sterilized bottles arc
■filled and capped. The bottles
in eases are loaded into trucks
and _ are soon on the way to the
consumer in the most sanitary con
dition possible.
Seven thousand bottles had
boon filled with milk this morn
ing at ten thirty and the new
piece of equipment was still going
strong at 32 bottles per minute.
Many Matanuska farmers, will
remember milking cows in the temp
orary enclosure near the kxpori- .
ment Station in '35 and liow the
milk was handled in 5 and 10 gal,
cans at the old Commissary, also ■
the war that was waged when those
who obtained their milk allowance
early in the day got the cream
and they who slept received the
skimmed milk. Cent, r.t top of page
.Tical pro-gresc has.b c on made•
4n the last six years.';
BE PREPARED
Attention has boon called on
various occasions to the matter of
stocking up on food supplies' to
last-possibly several months.
Late- developments in the war
situation, threats of warring na
tions. The necessity of using every
inch of shipping space while ship
ping facilities arc available all
point to a possible way in ,/Lich we,
as individuals may cooperate in
National Defense, particularly *as it
pertains to defense in Alaska.
If we have sugar, fieri’, salt
and other common staples stored in
our homos to last during the time
.shipping may bo interrupted, the
Government will not be call .-.l upon
to make special effort to supply us
with those comraodities and s’ ips can
bo used in some other quart r where
they may bo badly needed, and in the
meantime, we eat.
iho storing of food supplies
in the homo also releases space in
the warehouse and provides our or
ganization with cash with which to
purchase goods to fill the warehouse
again. There is probably o slogan
I rua*T?onpf)difcablc to tho present
j than "DM PBBPARBD,11
The Ass *n Management is In
| communication with all known sources
of information and has boon advised
j to "stock up". If members of this
i and other communities will heed
j that aclvico no one ho ;d go hungry,
letter will be sent to each, cus
tomer urging tho purchase,of sup
plies. The Government has priority
right on all shipring and when ad
ditional. ships are needed t' carry
defense materials they will be used
for that purpose.
Gardens, farm crops and farm
animals should receive the best of
care, to tho end that as nearly as
possible we nay bo self sustaining,
• illd berries tiny bo preserved, for
Ister use, as also may be salmon
and other neats. There is everything
I to bo. gained and nothing to lose.
STOCK UP, IT 13 'GOOD BCOKOhY.