FARM DOINGS
IN THE VALLEY
CONSERVATION NOTES
By Lew E. Hanks
Your correspondent has been
gazing out of the window while
he should have been working. I’ve
been watching the snowflakes
gently drifting down and I’ve
been thinking of all the things I
was going to do before snow came
—and didn’t. I assume that I have
plenty of company in that respect.
Well, maybe we will have a few
weeks of grace yet to get some
of those things done before win
ter sets in. I hope so.
Winter is a good time to take
stock of the situation on the farm
and lay out the plan of next year’s
operation. How should fields be
planted next spring to get a bet
ter crop rotation system into op
eration Where should wind
strips be laid out to protect
against soil blowing a year from
now? How much seed and fer
tilizer will be needed for next
year’s operations?
Get your orders in early and
give the Co-Op a chance to order
the best seed available. When it
comes to seed, the best seed is the
only kind worth planting. Insist
on it.
Grass seed will be in short
supply next year. The rest of the
country, as well as Alaska, has
found out that grass farming pays.
Get on the ball.
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Fair Board Will
Rent All Buildings
For Living Quarters
Attempting to do their bit to
ease the existing housing short
age here, members of the Valley
Fair Association’s board of di
rectors met in special session
Tuesday, to discuss rental of Fair
buildings as living quarters.
After thorough deliberation,
board members decided to make
all Fair-owned Pacific huts, Quon
set huts, and the Administration
Building available to renters at
a nominal fee. Buildings will be
rented as they stand. New oc
cupants will be expected to make
them habitable at their own ex
pense.
With the housing question set
tled, for Fair board members at
least, the group turned its atten
tion to routine Fair business. Di
rectors planned a general mem
bership meeting, to be held on
Tuesday, Oct. 24.
The general meeting, called to
hear a financial report on the 1950
Fair, and to discuss plans for
next year’s Fair, will be preceded
by a dinner for all the 1950 de
partment superintendents. Super
intendents are asked to come with
suggestions for improving future
fairs.
Both the dinner and member
ship meeting will be held in the
former library. The dinner will
be served at six p.m., with the
general membership meeting to
be called to order at eight o’clock.
'50 Fish Pack Figures
Are Lowest Since '21,
FWS Director Reports
The 1950 fish pack for Alaska
was about three-quarters of the
’49 pack, according to figures re
leased recently by C. Howard
Baltzo, assistant regional director
of Fish and Wildlife Service in
the territory. “The greatest fail
ure in the history of Alaskan fish
ing,” is the way Mr. Baltzo sum
med up the season in nine short
words.
The FWS director found the
season uniformly bad in all areas,
with the possible exception of
Cook Inlet. An increase in the
pack was recorded here, but he
attributed it to a great increase in
gear rather than an abundance of
salmon.
This year’s total pack, the low
est since 1921, was 3,177,003 cases.
The average pack for the last four
years has been about four million
cases, according to FWS records.
Board president Clair Stock
announced that the present di
rectors already had begun to for
mulate some long-term plans for
the Fair grounds. In order to
build economically and with each
unit tailored to fit a master plan,
agricultural colleges in the states
are being asked to help draft J
a building plan for the Fair
grounds.
Coffey Insures Everything—
Remember?
ALASKA SEED
Still Serves the Volley
Farmers May Buy Seed, Feed and Fertilizer
at either
TEELAND'S SHOPPING CENTER
at Wasilla
or
ALASKA SEED, INC.
12th and I Street. Anchorage
J. VIC BROWN & SONS
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TRIANGLE JACKS
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Wasillo to Have
Furniture Workshop
Mary Robinson, housing spe
cialist for the Extension Serv
ice, is planning an early No
vember furniture workshop in
Wasilla.
Furniture repair classes are
scheduled for the first two
weesk of November, according
to an announcement from the
Extension Office here. Time
and place of the workshop
classes has not yet been deter
mined.
BANKING SERVICE
IS ADDED NOW
TO EXTENSION DUTIES
Several of the Valley’s women
will have money in the bank, if
they’ll only stop at the Extension
Office and pick up the checks for
their handicraft which was sold
at the recent Fair.
Among the ladies who aren’t
worrying much about reimburse
ment for their labors are:
Mrs. Jack Cope, Mrs. Charles
Schaeffer, Mrs. Ann Brown and
Mrs. Glen Woods.
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