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BENEFIT DAN(
SAT. MITE
April 26
In School Gym.
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WAYNE FRIT A'T ill
ORC'TSTRA.
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PAR'.'IITG III
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the season is some
what late this spring, prospects
look good for farmers and gardeners
in the Homer country. On the 23
of April grain was showing up
nicely on the beach, while there
was still several inches of snow
on the Banch land which lias an
elevation of from four to fii^e
hundred feet above the town of
Homer. Cattle were gracing on the
low land and horses that had win
tered on the ’’Homer Spit” were
fat and sleek.
There wan an excellent at
tendance of fanners and their
families at the meetings arranged
by hiss <1. Hanoi Z inane man of the
Extension Service for the Univer
sity of Alaska. Fourty-five people
attended the meetings held at the
Homer Heights School house which
is five miles from Honor„ Don
L. Irvin., Agronomist in charge of
the i'atanuskn Experiment Station
and Lorin T. Oldroyd, Director of j
the Experiment Stations and Ex
tension Service took part in the
discussion of crop and livestock
production.
Many of the farmers in this
district are getting more land
plowed and will bo producing hay
and grain for dairy cows, hogs and
chickens from now on. These farm
ers are in the market now for 12
head of horses, several dairy
cows, a fe.w hogs and some poultry.
They also have to purchase farm
machinery,
A. A, Mattox has a herd of
35 head, of cattle. He keeps a
registered Shorthorn bull and will
ship in 5 head of registered
Shorthorn heifers in the near
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CO-OP NOTES CON'T
Valley is concerned, seem
anything that indicated th
opposite as long as it is
tional and can be sold.
L.C.S.
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to be
s e:-:act
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BANGS AND T.I3. TESTS CGN’T
It is too long to quote the
I entire lav; tut tuberculosis and
contagious abortion tire a. long the
diseases listed, according to
section S28 of the sane lav; the
seller, transporter, and buyer
maybe each fined five huir’rod dol
lars for violation.
In view of the great reed for
dairy cattle v;e are not destroying
jGang's disease reactors but are
insisting on a quarantine and will
institute calf vaccination at farms
where it is found.
80 head of cattle were test
ed in the Anchorage area f.1lowing
l completion of the test in the
i Valley.
Dr, Graves will next toot the
cows in the Fairbanks district.
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U'T’ITTS RETURN
SEWARD
POKIER P
Hr. and Rrs. ’.Valter Blue have
returned to Seward after r *. absence
of more than a year In Illinois.
waiter.Blue will be remembered
as an employee in the Sonx ssary
during the tent days in P. her.
Mrs. Blue was formerly a nurse
at the local hospital.
MONTGOMERY WARD ORDER OFFICE ROVES
j-r. A. B, Elerath representing
Montgomery V/ard and Go. has boon
in Palmer the last few days arrang
ing for the transfer of the : .W.
order office from the Traping Post
to a now location in the Rom Jack
son Photo Shop.
FOR SALE
Early rod seed potatoes
v/arba C 4p per lb.
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