NOTES FROM YOUR
EXTENSION SERViCE
BY MARYLOU RIDEOUT
Herr i* a brirf description <1
4-11 work taken frorr a little1 cir
cular prepared by the Extension
Service, which you may find in
teresting It tells what 4 II Club?
are.
The 4 II clubs are organized
groups of young people who are
engaged m applying science and
research to farming, homemak
ing. or community activities un
der the guidance of cooperative
extension workers and local vol
unteer leaders trained by them.'
They Learn by Doing
“Any boy or girl between the
ages of 10 and 21 years who
agrees to learn by doing' may
enroll. The group elects its own
officers, plans and conducts pro
grams based on the needs and in
terests of the young people, holds
regular meetings, and takes part
in community activities. There
are 4-H Clubs in almost all
countries of our 48 States and
in Alaska, Hawaii, and Puerto
Rico.
“4-H Club work is a part of the
national system of cooperative
extension work in agriculture and
homemaking, in which the United
States Department of Agricul
ture, the State agricultural col
leges, and the counties participate
cooperatively. Here are employed
practical educators called exten
sion agents who. backed up by
specialists, do educational work
on farms and in homes with men,
women, and youth.
“4-H has helped to develop In -
000.000 young citizens since its
beginning. The program is de
signed to increase farm incomes,
improve standards of living, in
crease the satisfactions from com
munity life, and prepare young
people for living in a changing
world.”
Every boy or girl who joins
our 4-H Club, pledges to learn
to do some simple job in the
home, on the farm, or in the com
munity, in a better way. That
job is ealled a project. There are
so many things that can be done
to improve farming and home
making in America. Therefore,
only those jobs that are most im
portant to a community, or those
that fit into the family program
and can be done by young people,
are emphasized and encouraged.
The member keeps records and
makes an exhibit sometime dur
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PRELIMINARY PLANS
COMPLETED FOR NEW
ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
mi-ntwy *choel t<* ix1 built in
N«irth Palmei from fund* given
the Palmer Independent School
| under Public Act 815 await* th”
| okay of preliminary sketches fur
i m*hed to the Office of Education
j by Architect Edwin Crittenden
almost a month ago. Superintend
ent William T Zahradmcek said
this week
The School board will meet
this week or early next to sug
gest an\ changes in the prelimin
iry plan- that will then appear in
the final ones. Present plans call
I for six classrooms and one small
' office. A reinforced concrete rooi
is provided for in order to permit
expansion on a second floor when
more space becomes necessan
Each classroom will have one side
almost entirely of windows. The
outside material will probably be
concrete.
PALMER PkECINCT
VOTING PLACES
Two polls have been authorized
for the Palmer precinct for the
Territorial Primary election to be
held Tuesday. April 29. U. S.
Commissioner Dorothy Saxton
■ stated this week.
One is located in Palmer at
Recreation Hall and the other is
at the Eska Post Office. Qualified
electors in the Jonesville and
Eska mining area all vote at Eska.
Everyone else in the Palmer pre
cinct, whether or not they are
residents of the city of Palmer,
will go to the poll in Palmer.
ing the year.
How does a boy or girl get
started?
Those of you who were in club
work last year will soon be called
to meetings to reorganize the
club you had last year. For those
of you who will be new members
in 4-H, the Extension Service has
enrollment blanks. Come in and
sign up now!
New Homemakers Club
There were a number of wom
en who showed an interest in
forming a new Homemakers club
at the Cheechako and Nugget
combined meeting last Monday
night. These women are interest
ed in having others join their club
and are extending an invitation
for them to meet at the Exten
j sion Craft Room (in the ARRC
I building) Monday night, April 28,
i at 8 p.m.
CONSERVATION
NOTES
LEW E. HANKS
According to preliminary re
port* issued by the Bureau of
Agricultural Economics the farm
production of the nation will be
about 7,000,000 ton* short on feed
' grain production this year Live
stock number* arc high and more
acreage is l>eing farmed to vege
i table type crop Do you know
i what that means —Higher prices
' for feed gram and concentrates.
That can hurt You know v. hat the
! feed situation has been like this
' spring. I have seen a lot of pretty
' average hay shipped in It is the
1 best that could be obtained but
it also takes a lot of grain sup
nlmunt to keep up milk produc
tion.
There arc several ways to beat
this situation this coming year
The first is to put every acre into
feed production we can. We can
also increase our production 50
percent by fertilization.
We can harvest and preserve
better forage.
Greater use of silos will help
us preserve better forage. All of
these things will save on buying
outside feed. Good feed will also
help on maintaining better milk
production next winter.
We can increase our grain pro
duction by planting Golden Rain
>ats or Edda barley. I heard of
;ome pretty high yields on these
varieties last year. Those days of
planting feed grain for seed grain
are gone. We can’t afford not to
plant good seed now.
Incidentally if you fertilize and
properly manage your pasture a
lot of brume now being pastured
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Be Sure to listen to "MAN ON THE FARM" over KENI each
Saturday, 12:30
BURKHOLDER REPORTS
170 WOLVES TAKEN
IN EAR NORTH PROJECT
Bob Burkholder returned to the
Valley this week-end for a short
breather from his three- month
predator control project near
Umiat He ferried a plane to An
chorage Sunday and left again
Tuesday
lie reported that the three pre
dator teams of tv. o men and a
plane had taken 170 wolves in the
area as of April 11 The work has
been done between the head of
the Sagavanirktok River and the
head of the Colville River on the
Arctic slope of the Brooks Range
Other FWS agents have just com
pleted a game census of caribou
and moose in the same area.
Burkholder reported that most of
the Arctic caribou are now locat
ed in that area.
Wolves are spotted and tracked
down by air as the predator con
trol is done primarily by shooting
and ‘sets’’ placed whenever
moose or caribou kills are found.
Burkholder said he and his part
ner once tracked a pack of eight
wolves forty miles for the kill.
The far-north project will b?
completed by mid-May.
could be cut for hay. How about
it?
Jittie io Cull...
Every dish in the house in the
sink . . . and then the drain
stops up! That's when you feel
like crying—but just give us
a call and we'll have it fixed
in a jiffy. If you want sure,
all-fime relief from this incon
veniene why not let us install
an automatic dishwasher?
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and HEATING
Announce Wedding Date
Mr and Mr* Martin Olson of
Palmar announc< th< «ngaccnv -r
■ ■f their niece. Airnrs Dolokken •(
John Mark Collwru. son of Dr
and Mr* A J. Odbcnt
Mi** Bolokkrn i* a native >>:
Norway She arrived in the Val
ley in 1950 and ha* been em
ployed by Brown's Cleaners the
; past few months.
Mr. Colherjj born in China, has
! been living in Alaska since 19*o
He is an employe of the M.V.F.
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