CONSERVATION
NOTES
By LEW E. HANKS
The days are warming up and
it won’t be long until planting
time. Fields are really dry. This
is the first time in my life I could
dig through frozen ground with
a soil auger almost as well as I
could last summer. The soil comes
out powder dry. If we don't get
a lot more moisture than we have
now, crops will be slow this
spring.
On tilling land this spring I
wouldn’t wait two hours after
plowing before rolling the land
with a cultipacker. You can lose
half the available moisture in a
few hours if you don’t.
Crop Rotation
How are your crop rotation
plans coming along? Are you lay
ing out those windbreaks to fit
your rotation? If you are.using a
5-year rotation you need five
fields. You need a grass crop in
that rotation. For a short time
rotation, two or three years, use
timothy and alsike. If you’re plan
ning a long term rotation use
smooth brome grass and alsike.
Pack your ground before plant
ing. Plant shallow. You’re seed
ing for a grass and not a grain
crop. Use a nurse crop of grain
at about half the usual rate of
seeding if you wish. Don’t plant
a mixture of grasses. Save that
money to buy fertilizer and use
plenty of it. Seed your land to
grass to protect the soil, pray for
rain and live off the fat of the
land.
Fish Derby to Run
Until September 1
Registration fees for the fish
derby planned by the Matanuska
Valley Sportsmen’s Club have
been set at $1, it was announced
following their regular riveting
Monday night.
The derby will be limited to
members of the club only, and
will run from now until Sept. 1.
Weighing station will be at the
Palmer Fountain and Cafe where
the registration book will be kept.
There will be first and second
prizes in the following classes:
grayling, rainbow and dolly var
den. The prizes will be awarded
at the annual game dinner to be
held October 6.
Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Westen
barger donated a ping pong table
to be added to the club’s enter
tainment roster. The club recent
ly acquired a pool table.
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Basement Palmer Drug
Silver Anniversary
To Be Celebrated By
Rev. and Mrs. Geiwitz
The Rev. and Mrs. George W.
Geiwitz of the Church of God in
Palmer are celebrating their sil
ver anniversary with an open
house Saturday, April 14, from
2 to 4 p.m.
“We would like to have friends
away from home and those who
long have been with us, drop in, ’
Mrs. Geiwitz invited.
Their church is the plainly
marked log structure which they
built with the help of their son,
Lewis, and the Rev. David Pat
terson from Anchorage, when
their first little church was out
grown.
The Rev. and Mrs. Geiwitz
came here first during 1936-37.
They returned in 1945 and have
remained continuously.
“We came here a year after
the Colonists. We have seen Pal
mer grow from a tent city to
what it is today,” Mrs. Geiwitz
said. “We have loved our work in
the Valley. We hope to go on and
grow with the vistas which are
opening before us.”
More than 5,000,000 pounds of
potatoes were sold last year from
the Matanuska Valley. This crop
removed from the soil the equi
valent of over 2,000 sacks of fer
tilizer.
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CHUGIAK NEWS
Mr. and Mrs. Howard Caffery
of Chugiak were surprised by
more than 30 friends at a buffet
supper at the Chugiak Coffee
Shop April 9, celebrating their
wedding anniversary.
Chugiak Community Hall is
showing another movie Friday
evening, April 13.
The Community Club held a
special meeting at Community
Hall April 11, followed by a meet
ing of the executive and ways
and means committees.
Hagen Flies Outside
A1 V. Hagen, owner of the Val
ley Theatre and new councilman
of Palmer’s first city council, flies
Outside Monday for Tacoma and
Seattle, Wash., on business. He
plans to return Friday, April 20.
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Navy Seeks Bids
On Construction
At Kodiak Island
The Navy is advertising for
bids • on several million dollars
worth of construction at the Na
val Station, Kodiak, Alaska.
The work involves runway and
taxiway paving, family housing,
waterfront construction and in
stallation of gasoline tanks. Com
petitive bids for the entire work
will be opened at 3 p.m. (PST),
May 9, 1951, in the San Francisco
office of Rear Admiral L. N.
Moeller, CEC, USN, director of
the Pacific and Alaskan Divisions
of the Bureau of Yards and Docks.
Plans and specifications for
this construction may be obtained
for a $50 deposit.
Alaskan bidders may receive
plans and specifications from the
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Felziens Return
Russell Felzien, former owner of
the Sourdough Bar, and Mrs. Fel
zien have returned from a 14,000
mile trip Outside. They returned
over the Alcan Highway.
After New Equipment
Herbert Kopperud, in the trans
portation business in Palmer, is
flying out to Seattle, thence to
Wisconsin, to pick up a new truck
and trailer which he will bring
back over the highway within
the next three weeks.
District Public Works Officer,
17th Naval District, Kodiak,
SHOE REPAIRING
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