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CONSERVATION PROGRAM -
CONTINUED
The planting og oats and peas
cones under item 8 of this news
bulletin.
Alsiko clover seed when sowed
with grain should be sowed at
the rate of 12 lbs. to 15 lbs. to
the acre. This comes under item
9 of this nov/s article.
Applying crop residue (item 15)
barnyard manure docs not count.
Pea vines and straw will qualify
if disked into the ground in such
a way so that it will not be blovn
off by the wind.
In the Vomer community it will
probably bo necessary in some
instances to follow different
seeding practices than these
recommended for the Matanuska
Valley and Anchorage. The Agent
will make a trip to Corner in the
fall to help farmers there in
making out suitable applications
according to qualifications.
Howard Estelle
District Extension Agent
POPPY MONEY AIDS DISABLED
Every penny of the money contri
buted for memorial poppies on
Poppy Day, Saturday,t(Iay 27, v/ill
go to aid disabled veterans and
the families left in need by the
death or disability of a veteran.
Distribution of flowers v/ill be
conducted by Girl Scouts and til
contributions will jo in their
entirety into the rehabilitation
and welfare of the Legion and
Auxiliary.
’’The dimes, quarters and dollors
which are dropped into tlqc boxes
cf the poppy workers on Poppy
Day form the principal source of
support for the relief and welfare
v/ork carried out by the Auxiliary
throughout the year"
"There is a vast amount to be
done for the disabled veterans,
for their families and
for the families of
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those who have died, and we be
lieve that those in distress
because of patriotic aacrifices
are entitled to everything which
can be done for them.
"While the government has made
provisions for care and compen
sation of the war disabled, justice
is never automatic and the aid of
the Legion and Auxiliary is often
needed to bring the veteran’s
case properly before the govern
ment. A great number of the dis
abled do not come within the pro
visions of the law and receive
no compensation. Real hardship
faces their families when they
become unable to work or require
hospitalization. Naturally,
their comrades in the Legion and
the American Legion Auxiliary are
their first source of aid.
"Through wearing a peppy on Poppy
Day, everyone can help us be
ready to respond to the calls for
help which will come to us'during
the year ahead. The poppy, which
honors the war dead, also aids
those who did net die but who
lost health and strength in the
nation*3 service."
The poppies will be crepe paper
replicas of the wild poppies
which grew in such profusion alcig
the battle front in France.
More than ten million of them
have been made by disabled men
working under the direction of the
Auxiliary in government hospitals
and special poppy workrooms.
Hundreds of veterans unable to do
other work, have been given em
ployment through the winter and
spring shaping the little red
flowers.
Iiorc than 100,000 women will be
in the Poppy Day army, distribut
ing flowers in memory of America’s
more than 100,000 Y/orld War dead.
They will ask no price for the
poppies but will give them for
any contribution the wearer feels
able to make. Every penny of the
money contributed will go into
the relief and welfare funds of
the Legion and Auxiliary, where
it will work for needy veterans
and their families during the
coming year.