FARM DOINGS
IN THE VALLEY
CONSERVATION NOTES
By Lew E. Hanks
Your correspondent was drag
ging his feet this week. I had
hoped to give you something on
^chemical weed control. I had in
tended to make observations at
the Matanuska Station as well
as on various farms. I guess I
don’t get around so fast these
late summer days.
A systematic soil building crop
rotation, which includes a peren
nial grass, will hold most weeds
under control, though. A vigor
ous well fertilized and managed
Jbronae grass stand will in time
eliminate chickweed and mustard
and will even thin out a stand of
squack grass, to the point where
fit can be controlled.
Quack grass, like death and
taxes, we will have with us for
ever. We may as well learn to
live with it. I don’t know a better
way of getting along with it than
turning it into cow feed while it
eliminates itself trying to com
pete with brome.
Biome is a long term grass and
fits best into a 5 or 6-year or long
er rotation. A good short term
notation might well be as follows:
Seed timothy and alsike clov
er with a light grain crop cut
for silage.
1 or 2 years timothy hay or
pasture
1 year potatoes
1 year other row crop
Then back to grain and tim
othy.
In places where timothy does
well this rotation ought to fit
nicely into a diversified farm
set-up.
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FISH CREEK OVERRUN
WITH FISH, FISHERMEN
KNIK—With the salmon i'un
in Fish Creek going at top speed,
Knik news is entirely “fishy”
these days. Fishermen who have
nets out at the mouth of Fish
Creek or at Goose Bay are re
porting good catches, almost with
out exception.
Fishing visitors noted at Knik
in the past few days included
these Palmer-ites:
Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Benson and
daughter Arlene, Mr. and Mrs.
L. W. Bixby, Mrs. William Head
and son Rodney, Mr. and Mrs.
Miles France, Lew Hanks, “Pat”
Murphy, Mr. and Mrs. Jack Tost,
Mrs. Vernon Fridley and son, Ver
non, Jr., Johnny Alex, and Mr.
and Mrs. Jack Sisley.
Guests dropped in on Lee El
lerson at his fish camp near the
mouth of Fish Creek last Sunday,
when Mr. and Mrs. George Small
of Palmer spent the day there.
They brought Mrs. Ellerson from
Knik to the camp to see her hus
band.
Norris Family Plans
To Leave Wasilla
WASILLA—Mr. and Mrs. Wil
liam Norris and son, Eddie, of
Wasilla are planning to leave for
the states soon. The family has
been managing the Wasilla Road
house Cafe. A family from An
chorage will assume management
of the hotel and cafe in the near
future.
15 Alaskans Must Join
Uncle Sam's* Boys
During September
Alaska’s quota for the first
draft call has been set at 15 men,
John L. McCormick, territorial
director of selective service, an
nounced last week. Local boards
at Anchorage, Fairbanks, Juneau,
Nome and Kodiak have been in
structed to call up 70 men for
pre-induction physical examina
tions this week. In September,
the chosen 15 will be inducted.
Men who are 25 years old will
be called first, with the draft
reaching down to the 19-year
olds last.
Mr. McCormick stressed the
fact that all men between the
ages of 18 and 25, inclusive", must
register. Men will not be drafted
until they reach the age of 19,
however.
All registrants must keep their
local draft board notified of any
change of address. For Palmer
men that local board is in An
chorage. Men who fail to comply
with this section of the selective
service act will be declared de
linquent and will be ordered to
report for induction without
physical examination, the selec
tive service head stated.
A local man solved the housing
problem by buying an abandoned
church to live in—now he can
sleep in church without apologiz
ing to the preacher.
Joe Davies, Prop.
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4-H CLUB COUNCIL
PLANS FOR FAIR
Plans for 4-H Club work at the
fair were the principal topic of
discussion at last week’s 4-H Club
Council meeting at the Extension
Office. Council members also
gave considerable time and
thought to plans for the improve
ment of 4-H Club work in the
Valley.
Council head Clarence Moore
presided at the meeting. These
leaders were present:
Mrs. Frances Dinkel, Mrs. Ola
Grafton, Mrs. Norbert Swoboda,
Mi's. Pat Cullison, Miss Margaret
McElhinny, Mrs. John McDonald,
Mrs. I. M. Sandvik, Wallace Mid
dleton and Miss Mary Lou Lash
brook.
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