VContinued from Page 4).
Olivia Painter - Various ways of measuring
fat s.
Annie Mensoff - How to prepare vegetables
for market.
Nancy Pitka - How to control root maggots
in gardens.
At the close of the meeting, all 4-H
club members took part in the candle light
ing ceremony.
The public is invited to attend the 4-H
Rally Day next Tuesday in the Lounge and
in the Extension office to see the 4-H
members give demonstrations in canning,
gardening, clothing, baking, and home im
provement. The demonstrations will begin
at 9 a.m. and continue thruout the day.The
schedules will be posted in the Lounge and
in the Extension office, giving the time
for each demonstration.
The judges will place the demonstra
tions in blue, red, and white groups and
the best demonstrations will be given again
at the Fair, September 2.
The Glacier View Homemakers club will
meet at Mrs. David Bryant's home Thursday,
August 20 instead of on Wednesday because
of the Rally Day being held August 19.
The Sourdough Homemakers club held its
regular meeting at the Adam Werner home
August 11. Mrs. Irving Nevville had
charge of the discussion on food preserva
tion and was assisted by Mrs. Werner who
showed the club many of the foods she had
preserved.
A 4-H leaders meeting was held August
10 in the Extension office. Plans were
made for the Rally Day at Eklutna on Aug
ust 12 and at Palmer August 19 and the 4-H
Fair which will be held September 2. Re
ports were given by the Extension agents
on the 4-H camps at Kings Lake and other
Extension activities.
The Liberty Girls 4-H club met in the
Lounge Tuesday, August 11. A cake demon
stration was given by Alice Bouwens and
Kathleen Patten. The canning members of
this group will meet with Mrs. Thuma August
14 to make plans for demonstrations for
Rally Day.
Feople in the Matanuska Valley nro in
debted to the Butte 4-H club for cutting
the large patch of Canada thistles now in
blossom on the Butte. Within a few days,
the blossoms would be ripe enough so the
seed would be carried by the wind and scat
tered thruout the Valley.
If this weed becomes established, it is
very difficult to kill it out, and while it
is still limited to a few spots which are
of small area, everyone should cooperate to
get it under control this year. Chlorates
are very effective for eradicating small
patcheb.
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CO-OP NOTES
Attention all potato growers! If
you have potatoes to sell and vould
like to sell them in the field, now,
with digging to be done by purch
asers, please see me or Mr, Cheek
immediately.
Our information is that war insur
ance may go to 20/£. This means
that your groceries will cost you
that much more when the present
supply runs out. New shipments
are arriving and it is our sugges
tion that you can protect yourself
by purchasing your supplies now.
L. C. Stock
(Field Day-Continued from page 1).
silage, and minerals and the results ap
pearing to date.
Field Day is an annual event which
every farmer in the iviatanuska Valley
should make it a point to attend to learn
what is going on at the Experiment Sta
tion, This event is made possible thru
the cooperation of the Extension Service
and the Experiment Station,
The Agricultural Extension agent has
just received word from the U.S.Depart
ment of Agriculture concerning the con
servation program for insular regions,
which includes Alaska, for 1942. If any
farmer wishes to apply for soil payments
this year, please leave word at the Ex
tension office some time during the next
10 days. Payments will be made on a
similar basis as last year.
RECEIVED BY SNOKBHQE WIRELESS* The real
goods about Sergeant Payne and his bride
to-be is that Oscar Kertulla bet Sergt.
Payne a cigar that he could produce a
bride for Segt'...nt Payne as glamorous as
Hedy Lamarr, Said Sergeant Payne,"Pooh,
I throw rocks at Bedy LanarrJ"
’./hereupon, Oscar Kertulla was appalled
"more than somewhat" as a Damon Runyan
character would say. He could see that
the Sergeant was going to bo entirely
too hard to please when it came to se
lecting a bride for him, Oscar Kertulla
just up and said, "Well, in that case
Sergeant, here's your cigar."