CONSERVATION
NOTES
By LEW HANKS
I’ve been hugging the stove
lately, listening to our little Mat
anuska zephyr howl around the
house and suck my dollars up the
stove pipe. I’ve also been sitting
at the window watching local
real estate drift by. You might
think that our winds remove very
little topsoil. A field looks about
the same afterwards as before.
Take a look at the brush patches
or snow banks along the edge.
Are they black with dirt? Are a
few inches of soil piled up in the
brush edge? That’s topsoil, mister,
topsoil that you covered with lots
of dollars’ worth of expensive
fertilizer last spring. Are the
roots of standing plants exposed
slightly? That’s where topsoil
used to be. It may not look like
much. It’s like turning the leaves
of a book. A little layer of soil
blown off by each wind and in a
few years your fields have lost
soil by the foot instead of inches.
There are fields in the Matanuska
Valley that have lost soil by the
foot, too. Guide service furnished
when requested. You might won
der where your soil goes. Maybe
you think your neighbor on the
north reimburses you for the top
soil you gave away. He does par
tially but most of that remains in
the wooded fields you’re not
farming anyway. The rest of it
goes to help out the boys beyond
Wasilla. They’re short on topsoil,
anyway.
Windbreaks, even low hedges
spaced two to four hundred feet
apart, or snow fences, help a lot
to prevent soil blowing. Spread
ing manure or listing snow, any
thing to get a rough surface, will
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I Young People to Honor
Parents at Dinner on
i £ve of Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving celebrations plan
ned for Palmer will include a tur
key dinner to be given by the
Young People of the Church of
God. The dinner will take place
Thanksgiving eve and will be in
honor of the parents of the Young
People.
Interesting plans for the event
include the admission fee to be
collected for the dinner. A per
sonal photograph and a coin dat
ing three hundred years after the
first Thanksgiving must be pre
sented to gain admittance.
Entertainment following the
dinner will also be presented by
the Young People with a skit on
the first Thanksgiving to be fea
tured. A very enjoyable evening
is promised, according to the an
nouncement, and all parents and
adults of the church are cordially
inviid to attend.
Spends Week at Anchorage
Parker Lester has been in An- j
chorage all this week on soil con- j
servation business. He was ex- i
pected to return to Palmer today.
cause a blanket of quiet air next
to the ground and slow up the
surface wind. Long stubble af- I
fords almost complete protection.
Observe the way the snow and i
soil drifts this winter and make j
plans for a better system of wind |
strip cropping for next year.
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Give
to Your
Community Chest
The party time of the year
is here! Don’t let that old
bug-a-boo of nothing to
wear bother you. With our
cleaning you’ll feel—and
look—like celebrating.
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