every Friday by the Katanuska
Valley Farmer’s Cooperating As so
elation at Palmer, Alaska.
Mng. Editor: Irving Newville
This paper is issued for the
purpose of giving- information
and news of the hatanuska Valley
Farmerfs Cooperating Associa
tions work, problems, accomp
lishments, also news of local
and general Interest; and to
foster the cooperative spirit of
the Farmers of the katanuska
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Valley
’VOK^Tts CO-OP GUILD UEBTJUG
The women's Co-op Guild will
moot in the ‘•'omen's Lounge ^pril 7
Tho program committee has worked
out a course of study beginning
with tho History of Cooperatives.
Bring your copy of "Nows for
Farmer Cooperatives'1 for February
1941. -^iscuss^on will be on Art
icle "V/c start small and grew."
p. 11.
Come and add your ideas to
the discussion and make the meet
ing interesting.
4-H M BTING
All boys and iris between
the ages of 10 and 20 are invited
to attend the 4-K meeting at the
I.h. 5>andvik home Wednesday eve
ning, April 9. Officers will be
cl cted at this mooting. Ralph
Archer and Roger Ellsworth arc
planning a .program; and Otto Pet
erson and Donald Parks arc serving
on the recreation committee.
VISIT LOU'S BEAUTY SHOP
"For a moro lovely you1*
Have a new permanent wave for
EASTER.
Excellent work - - prices right.
_Co-op Recreation Bldn.
FIRST GRADE
• TERIHSl'T Wild BEAUS
Iiss Bromley’s First graders
are experimenting on the crowth
of lima beans. They are Ooing to
_ut some lima beans in a can and
Oivo it light and water aa’ put
another can of lima beans in the
closet ancl . ivc it only water.
They first soaked t'. a beans
in water.
The children are very inter
ested in watching the boa: s de
velop.
Evelyn Schoibl
7th grade.
T ■' • *T\ TTO ' '
1-Ji l U o O . j
; SITING
i'LAIILIUG CCI.l.ITT.,d
Dr. Graves discus see" the dif
ferent diseases of animals to
be found here at one time or other
including T. B. and Bangs disease.
A letter was read regard! Syn
thetic Urea, made from nitrogen
and carbon dioxide by E>uPc at on
the ea3t coast at y85 per ton.
This amounts to ;>1.84 per unit
of nitrogen as compared to 1.84
per unit of h in sodium rui irate
at 130, and .1.45 per unit of
II in ammonium sulphate at 19.60.
Calculations v.o Id indicat . that
lanced cost per unit of h would
b6 in favor of amnonium sulphate,
urea and sodium nitrate in that
order, landed in Calmer.
The question regard:' the
feeding of urea to cows f r which
purpose it is reputed to. have a
protein equivalent of 276 , has
been referred to the. Bureau of
: Animal industry.
Dr. Gro.ves stated t1 at he
had seen some cases of poisoning
by uncontrolled or accidc rial
eating of urqa.
The balance of the r> eting
was devoted to a discussion of
possible suggestions by the com
mittee’ to the Department of In
terior, relative to the d. oposal
of Public Domain with.drawn from
homestead in the hatanuska Valley.
Consideration was geven*to
the aspects of the proble. in
cluding the following;
(con’t on page 5)