“Potatoes Look Good
this Year", Says
Plant Pathologist
"Matanuska Valley Potatoes
look awfully good this year". Dr.
Do/ald M. Coe, plant pathologist
at the Alaska Agriculture Sta
tion, said this week.
Although there is some mosaic
present, the incidence is very
low. Ring rot is the problem
which must be cleared up to avoid
troubles.
"With this rainy weather we’ve
Jpeen having, we can’t discover
ring rot in the field.” Dr. Coe ad
mitted. ‘"but it’s there and will
show later in the tubers in stor
age”
Ten or 12 farmers in the Valley
have started out this year with
tuber unit plantings for seed pro
duction. A tuber unit is made up
of plantings of four parts of a
single tuber.
"That’s the correct way to
clean up ring rot”, Dr. Coe ex
plained. If one diseased plant
is found in any one unit, the en
tire field production is out. and
the farmer must start again next
year.”
None of the tuber unit growers
will have potato seed stock for
sale next year. Even if they are
lucky and have completely di
sease-free stock, they will need
all they harvest this year to build
up their stocks. Perhaps in 1953
it may be possible to market
some of these disease-free stocks.
Ring rot does not carry over
i'fi the soil, the pathologist stated.
It does carry over in sacks, bins,
and on equipment. It will help a
lot to hold down ring rot, he
added, if potato growers take
particular care to clean and dis
infect cellars before storing this
year’s crop of potatoes.
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It seems that it would be a good
thing if the dairymen would take
their families and go on another
outing before they get too deeply
involved in silo filling. |
Next Monday, August 13. the
Matanuska Experiment Station
will hold their annual field day
and are inviting all farmers of the
valley to come and see what has
been cooking in the experiment
al pot thru the passing season.
The MVBA program committee
decided that attending this ex
cursion to the Experimental Farm
would be a good way to hold their
August meeting. So all members
are urged to ask their wives if
they would put up a basket lunch,
and then, with the whole family
in the old car. drive av.ay from
the farm for the day. leaving
Sport in charge of the cows. If1
the pasture had been Well ferti
lized with commercial fertilizer
this spring, there would be no
worry about the cattle breaking
out thru the fence.
We might say, in passing, that
chances are that you can have
good pasture all thru the season
if you alternate with a dressing
of barnyard manure one year and
application of about 100 lbs. phos
phate and 300 lbs. nitrate per
acre, the other year, plus reseed
ing with grass seed in thin spots.
Also put up enough silage so that
you don’t need to turn the cows
out to pasture too early in the
season.
Good pasture, and this means
grass that is not allowed to get
shorter than about three inches,
or higher than the knees on the
cows, is the most economical feed
that can be raised for a dairy
herd. Allowing grass to get too
short is not economic feeding.
A good way to know if your
pasture is just about right is when
you have to go out and get the
cows, even tho you are feeding
ample grain in the barn. That is,
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Body Recovered
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The body of Eugene Kranich.
28. of Homer, Alaska was recov
ered from Big Lake August 5,
where he and a fishing compan
ion Pvt. Robert Sholin. also of
Homer apparently drowned June
24 when their boat capsized.
The body was discovered float
ing on the Lake’s surface by two
Anchorage fishermen who with
Anderson notified U. S. Commis
sioner Dorothy B. Saxton. Palm
er.
An intensified search was car
ried on for several weeks, follow
ing their disappearance with Carl
Sholin and Bob Kranich. fathers
of the boys. Fish and Wildlife]
agents. U. S. Deputy Marshall I
Bouwens, the 10th Air Rescue]
Squadron and many others parti-j
cipating. Sholin’s body has not |
been recovered. |
Kranich was until recently, em
ployed by the Miller Construc
tion Co., of Anchorage. He is sur
vived by his parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Robert Kranich and two bro
thers, Ray and Billy, all of Ho
mer. Mrs. Kranich is postmistress
at Homer.
if the mosquitoes aren’t driving
the cows into the barn yard, away
from the grass fields.
Let us see how many of the ]
MVBA members can get together
out at the Experimental Farm
next Monday. Get there in the
morning so as to be able to join
the group at noon. Coffee will be
served by the Station.
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