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Montana farmer-stockman., 1948-02-01
Veterinary Departments
Be Careful Where You
Get Your Chicks
By DIR. HOWARD WEIGH

baby chick ads. Here it is, practi-
cally nlid-winter, some of us have
Just put on our storm windows and
are beginning to get used to short
days and o'clock sunsets, when
the seed and garden catalogs and
the baby chick ads warn us that
spring is not too far away.
The baby chick dealers had
rough time last spring. Farmers
couldn't afford to feed their own
grain to chickens-too high priced,
which is rather complicated. A
rancher wants chickens, he just has
to have chickens, but his own grain
that, he raises is too expensive to
feed. Makes a man dizzy to watch
the upward spiral. But we started
this out as a lecture on the evils
of just buying chicks anywhere.
Newcastle Disease
Many poultry grower bought
chicks and trouble in the same pack
age last spring. Outbreaks of New
castle disease in dozen localities
that we know of (probably two
dozen that we haven't heard of
We're directly traceable to shipments
of baby chicks from eastern states.
Newcastle disease has proven much
easier to get than to get rid of. APP
parently only getting rid of every
bird, completely depopulating, thor
oughly cleaning up the premises and
buildings and waiting 80 to so days
will enable one to start over.
How much of this disease still
exists in the state, the hangover
from last springs outbreaks, nobody
knows. It is not likely to spread
from ranch to ranch; we live too far
apart. If Newcastle disease appears
with its heavy losses this spring, it
will be because somebody bought ii
and shipped it in.
The other chick disease, pullorum,
we have been shipping in every year.
though not as much recently as we
did before the war. More and more
the bigger hatcheries of the eastern
states have been shipping chicks
from blood-tested flocks, though
there are a few that will sell anc
ship us anything without regard te
health or quality.
With pullorum disease, the buyer
takes a beating until the chicks are
about 8 weeks old, but after thai
his loss is nominal. He may lose 81
percent of chicks, but then he j;
done. With this Newcastle disease
he loses half his shipment of chicks
all the hens on the place stop lay
ing and many of them die. If h,
brings in more baby chicks, the,
start dying at once. His only re
source is to go completely out of tn
chicken business for two or thre
months.
Pullorum-Free
But why ship in either disease
1t is safer to buy chicks from tn
hatcheries located right here in Mon
tana or in some other western are
relatively free from this disease. Gu
local hatcheries handle pullorum
free eggs for Matching and we do nc
know of any active Newcastle dis
ease in the state among the pre-
ducers of hatchery eggs. This yea
more than any year up-to-date,
is highly important to know tha
your baby chicks are disease fre,
Montana farmer-stockman., 1948-02-01
Poultry Mortality

CONSIDERING the brainleSS
gcrambling of chickens in front of
a car on the highway, we wonder
that any chickens live to maturity.
Even in the safety of their own poul-
try houses, we often wonder the
same thing, for the mortality rate
is sometimes a fright. We expect
losses in baby chicks. They are
young-weak and easily chilled-but
we do not expect a year-old hen to
die without some good reason.
Figures on mortality in grown or
laying hens have often been quoted.
Even allowing for wild inaccuracies,
the figures are appalling. In the
crowded poultry centers of the mid
die west, the annual death rate is
over 35 percent. Some figure it as
over 40 percent. In Montana, though
nobody knows exactly, it is around
IL or Is percent, each and every
year. Of course, this means aver
ages; it means that if Bill Smith loses
only S percent, that Bill Jones loses
20 percent, etc.
Basic Weakness
This mortality does not include the
wholesale clean-ups, such as must
follow the diagnosis of tuberculosis
or Newcastle. It does not include
pullorum disease or coccidiosis, both
diseases of the young bird. 1t really
does not include the loss from any
infectious disease. 1t is the loss oc-
casioned by hi-pressure feeding and
management, by poor feeding and
management, by parasites, by tu-
mors, by fowl paralysis, by vitamin
deficiencies, by poor ventilation, and
by hundred other minor causes.
Mainly, it is the result of years OF
breeding to produce highly geared
egg machine, without at the same
time producing chicken that car
stand the strain. AS result, laying
hens blow out gaskets and burn out
bearings, and yet present no def.
mite problem of disease or disease
control. When a series of post NOR
tenn examinations in a flock show
ruptured oviducts, broken egg yolks
peritonitis, tumors of various types
etc., the poultry expert" cannot ad
wise any definite treatment, eithel
curative or preventive,
Fewer Eggs or Fewer Hens
Basically, it seems to be choic'
between fewer eggs or fewer hens
Somewhere along the road towart
the egg -a-day hen, we have lost par
of her former iron constitution. w
have our high egg production, an
we are not willing to give it up. Blu
with it, like the tail on the dog
comes this unavoidable, unprevent
able, often unexplainable, high NOR
tality rate.
Growers that send in sick or dea
hens to a laboratory for diagnose
naturally expect some sort of fo1
nula for ways and means of prever
ton of further losses.
1t would be just lovely if we coul
do that, but very often no good &C
vice can be offered, except perhaI
to suggest that the grower rails
ducks instead of chickens.
Evening star., 1948-04-16

into a sort Of military hotel. Frozen
milk was, and still Is, flown down
from the United States. Transient
barracks were equipped with beds,
sheets and showers. And for the
menu, the nutriculture garden was
built.
Civilian Directed Work.
A civilian expert. Kendrick w.
Blodgett, of Terre Haute, Ind, got
the garden growing. With a squad
Of uninitiated American soldiers and
platoonS Of native Guianese workers,
Mr.. Blodgett built rs long, shallow
beds of concrete. He installed water
tanks and brought in thousands of
pounds of ammonium sulfate, nj
trate of soda and the other COM
ponent fertilizers used in nutri-
culture.
When the seedlings were ready,
the project got under way and in
go days bumper crop of salad
vegetables was produced. The hot,
damp Guiana climate-which aver
ages "a inches of rain annually with
the temperature never exceeding
945 Fahrenheit-proyed excellent
for the plants. Insects were and are
kept down with frequent sprayings
and. weeds were banished by rszing
all tropical growth for hundreds Of
yards around the garden.
Last year, the garden produced
$50 900 pounds of vegetables and
Evening star., 1948-04-16

this was by no means the full ca.
pacity Of the establishment. Capt
Truxal says he does not have ths
facilities to store and package any
more. Obviously, the garden grows
far more produce than Atkinson
Fields tiny garrison could eyer eat
Army dentists noticed a significant
trend shortly after the troops sta
toned in British Guiana began eat
ing the fresh nutriculture vegetables
instead of conventional CT canned
foods. The number of men requir-
ing dental treatment dropped od to
almost nothing.
Capt. Truxal has reduced the en-
tire process Of growing crop to
simple chemical formulas which are
posted in his laboratory. Both en-
listed men and natives connected
with the garden are now so well
trained in the simple procedure, he
said, that they could run the place
without his aid.
Enriched water, he explained, Is
merely pumped out Of master vat
to tanks at higher level than the
garden beds. Gravity sends the
fertilizer water mixture seeping
through the roots to retaining vats
at the lowest level. Then, the mix
ture is brought back to required
strength and the process is repeated.
The gardens had to be built for
soilless culture because this area OF
Evening star., 1948-04-16

British Guiana miles up the east
bank OF the Demerara River from
coastal Georgetown-is made up
largely of alluvial sand. It would
not support natural growth Of tenn
perate-zone vegetables.
Other Gardens Established.
The same type Of garden was in
stalled on Ascension Island-a lava
rock in the middle of the South
Atlantic Ocean used during the
war as q stepping stone for air
travel from Brazil to Africa. The
Shell Oil Co. also maintains nutri-
culture gardens on Aruba and
Curacao in the Netherlands West
Indies OF the Venezuelan coast.
Until the occupation forces in
Japan built their garden near
Tokyo several months ago. Capt.
Truxaps garden was the largest Of
Its type In the world.
1--WE don't have all the accounting
figures available here" Capt. Trux-
Evening star., 1948-04-16
British Guiana Garden
Using No Soil Gives
U. 5. Army Good Crop
By Jerry oLeoY. Jr.
Star SsoH corrsspendent

GEORGETOWN, British Guiana
April 10 Delayed Thirty miles
into the interior Of equatorial Brit
ish Guiana, where the roads are
paved with aluminium, the United
States Army maintains the world s
second largest soilless truck vege-
table farm.
The nutriculture garden, which Is
nearly years old, is second only
to the s0-acre hydroponics center
maintained by the Army near Tokyo
Japan. It supplies not only the 200
soldiers and pilots at Atkinson Field,
British Guiana, but other isolated
Army bases at Trinidad, st. Lucia,
and as far away as Panama.
One thousand pounds OF beans,
eggplant, lettuce, tomatoes, peppers
and other vegetables are produced
every day by the Atkinson Field
Garden. Capt. Edward L. Truxal
Of Waco, Tex, who Is in charge,
uses ordinary pebbles to support
the roots of the vegetables he grows.
Could Use Marbles.
I'VE could just as well use ball
bearings or marbles" Capt. Truxal
said, "Or any inert substance that
wouldn't react chemically with the
fertilizers we use in the nutriculture
beds"
The garden had It's origin In July,
l945, when the Army's Green Prof.
ect" got under way. Green Project
was the name given to the plan for
flying combat soldiers directly home
from the war zone to the United
States via the Africa Ascension
Brazil route over the South Atlantic.
Gen. Henry H. Hap Arnold,
then chief of the Army Air Forces,
evolved the idea of making Atkinson
Field-the last foreign stop for most
Of the Green Project troops-as
comfortable and homelike as pos
sible. The Army thought 1t adv1s-
able to give the men fresh vege-
tables, milk, honest-to-God beds
with sheets and pillows on that last
night overseas so the men wouldn't
arrive In the United States cold"
20 to speak.
So Atkinson Field was converted
Evening star., 1948-04-16

relish the bump %ide to George
town over the ,npaved road which
the colonial government continually
repairs with raw bauxite ore. Baux-
ite, from which aluminium Is de-
rived, is one Of the colony's greatest
natural resources.
GIs in British Guiana would trade
1t all for their daily, homegrown
dinners.
Evening star., 1948-04-16

al said, "but by using the CONNER
cial cost Of the fertilizers and fg-
uring In average labor costs, We
certainly are not operating this gar
den ut loss. It pays OF financially
and, when it comes to troop morale,
immeasurably."
In Georgetown, capital Of the
British colony, no such food can be
secured. The garrison does not
Evening star., 1948-04-16
ADVERTISEMENT.
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LEG PAINS may
Be DANGER SIGN
OF Tired K;dn>v.

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The kidneys are Natures chief way Of
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II the Is miles Of kidney tubes and filters
stays IN the blood. These poisons may start
AagginG baekaehes. rheumatic pains, leg
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Don't wait Ask your druggist for Doan's
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Kodiak mirror., 1948-01-31
Petricil Fined For l.iuuOr Sales

A fine of Sl200 and seven 5 month jail sentences were given Capt. Jesse Petrich, skipper of the AleuJian Mail, in District Court in Anchorage, after he pleaded guilty to illegal sale of liquor at seven different places in the Aleutian Chain.
 The sentence of 8 total of AZ months in jail was suspended by Judge Anthony J. Dimond.
 Petrich admitted selling liquor illegally at Chignik, Perryville, Kanatak, Sand Point, King Cove, False Pass and Belkofsky.
 The Aleutian Mail, which went aground near Dutch Har- bor on January l2 is undergoing repairs at the navy base here.
Kodiak mirror., 1948-01-31
Town 7idbits

A third Australian war bride, also from Sydney, arrived in Ko. dlak this week on the Denali to join her husband. Mrs. Paul Krebs, whose husband is skipper on the army LIT 60, is already in love with Kodiak and would like tosstay here permanently.
 She came to the States 2 years ago and has been living in tour ist motels and out of suitcases" ever since, she sad With her she brought her Dalmatian dog, Jihx.
 Mrs Krebs is a designer and maker of children,s clothes, and she plans to continue that work in Kodiak
 Al Collins and Harvey Gund- iach had narrow escape from a carbon monoxide death Saturday night, during the involuntary blackout.
 They were in the basement of the Casino where a gasoline pump had been working all day to keep out the water About midnight they went down to start the electric pump and be. gan to feel dizzy. Al reported that although they felt weak and sick their minds didn't seem 10 become aware of the danger
 Footsteps overhead at the door and a Ioog ringing of the b'lzzer finally rouse1 Al who crawled up through the trap door to the bar and to the door to let Vera McNaIlen in. Then he col. lapsed in a chair.
 A few minutes later, Gundlach appeared and crawled along he floor to the door which Collins opened for him The whiff o cold air felt so good that Al followed Hatv>y outside where the. sat on either side of the dor The night cop going by stopped tol see what was the matter an1 they told him they'd be OK in a lnnute so he went org Then talpb Shupp hap r.d along. parked his car dow he street with the mot, runr,ng an II more fumes blowing back to he
Kodiak mirror., 1948-01-31
Notice

Will all men who longshored for Alaska Steamship during 1947 please call for their final withholding tax statements at the steamship office.
 Alaska Steamship Go.
Kodiak mirror., 1948-01-31
Letter To The Editor

The Kodi4k Shopper, as such, was originally bought by the Teamster's Union of Kodiak, Al. aska, Local 500, to compete with the Tagura Transit System and force it off the Mission Road run. After succeeding in this purpose, they operated it for a short time at loss. It was then sold to Tommy Gallagher, who in turn found that it did not pay Tom my in turn sold the Shopper to Mrs Rookney, the present owner of the Shopper. She, by diligent- Iy maintaining her schedule and by giving excellent service to the people of Kodiak, built it up to 8 | Laying proposition Now let us agaln view the worm.
 This brain child of the Team sters Union had become SO effici- eat that it now cut somewhat in. to the earnings of the Local Cab Drivers, so they claim Now what to do? The cab drivers we understand this time on their own, began to cut thelr establish. ed rates of $l.00 to $2.O0 to 25c along Mission Road to harrass the owner of the Shopper After she had built this business from Lemon to a somewhat more tasty fruit, they wanted taste This. mind you, in view of the own restrictions embodied in the Bylaws of their Unlon. I was going to use the word "scabb. ing', but even its use IS insight ly.
 l am not blaming the Union as such for the acts of their mem bers, IF THEY ARE UNABLE TO CURTAIL THEM, but the logical reaction for the City Dads to take should be, if they want this business so bad, the logical rate of Cab and shopper services throughout the City is 25 cents and not the $I co.
 Tbe people of Kodiak and the merchants really appreciate he excellent service Mrs Rockney has given and l am sure especi. ally in view of the facts above as outlined, feel that both the Un. ion and it's drivers are extremely wrong and at least should be courteous enough to conhne thelr actions to their own scope, 1 lest perhaps the worm should I again tuID.
 A. J. Ciehoskl
Kodiak mirror., 1948-01-31
2 sick men.

? sick men.
 Four hours after they came out of the basement the 2 men were finally able to go home and inside without feeling suffocated agaln
Kodiak mirror., 1948-01-31

Kodiak Democrats will meet Thursday evening at the com missioner's office.
Kodiak mirror., 1948-01-31
Pacific Northern INCOMING


 Miss Marjorie Anstey, Mrs Max LaI.ande, Mrs. Merrill Coon and infant. MT. and Mrs w. A Anderson, Elmer Harris, Thomas Jensen, MT. and Mrs Ed Getty, D c Young, Mrs N Roberts, H. w. McLelland, l.. w McIJelland, Pat Cannon OUTGOING
 Mrs Irwin Bowman, Mrs. Max LaLande, Harry Brown, Vernon HeIlicker. flo Bo Jo, J' IF Spracher, E1 K'mmel, Wayne Rybolt. Clyde Burlin- game, A.Ossander, c. McDo- well, L. H. Phillips, Thomas Jensen
Kodiak mirror., 1948-01-31

A special meeting of the Com- munlty Center board will be held at 7::3O Thursday evening.
Kodiak mirror., 1948-01-31

The wedding of Miss Marjorie Anstey and John c. Hughes, local attorney. was set for 8 o'oclock this morning in St. Mary's Church, with Father l. B Fink reading the mass
 Miss Anstey arrived Thursday from her home in Massena, To. wa, and has been the house guest of Mr. and Mrs. Vincent Root
 Gladys Pagano will be a Val- entine bride. Her marriage to Marine Don Buell. will take place on February IA. After the wed- ding the couple will be at home in the Kodiak Apartments.
 June Wilson will be hostess to the Garden Club Wednesday. Bea Nachtweih will speak on cc- Tor accents in flower arrange ments, and Alice Given will give the botanical study on cultiva- tiCn of leeves,
Kodiak mirror., 1948-01-31
Northern AErIineS

OUTGOING:
 Dick Pack, Gene Jorgensen, Sigurd I.ian, Royce Holland, Kay Wade.
Kodiak mirror., 1948-01-31

The Kodiak town volleyball team was the third best squad in the weekly competition at NOE Tuesday evening loslng close matches to the championship Fasron outfit and the NOE Civilians
 The teams will play at NOE again Tuesday leaving the Com munity Center at 7 pm
 A women's team will play in the new feminine league at the bage on Monday evenings The squad will leave the Center at 7 pm Monday. All interested young women are invited to Lar ticipate.
Evening star., 1948-03-07

keep IT LOVELY" the hardresser urged "Use
LustreCreme Shampoo home 1t gives hair this three
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strand with lovely glisenng sheen; (3) leaves your
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gentle lanolin akin to the natural oils in healthy scalp
Evening star., 1948-03-07
never though ID be Bills DREAM GIRL
till became a "[USTRE- CREME GIRL

AMONG THOSE PRESENT.. at our wedding was
Lustre Creme. Never before had my hair brought me
so many compliments And my hair will stay Ioveler,
too with Lustre- Creme's constant care. Now this
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Evening star., 1948-03-07

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Evening star., 1948-03-07

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10! MY hair loneliness shone again. Lustre Creme, he
explained SIS not soap not liquid but dainty, new.
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That's the Lustre Creme magic you're looking at now!"
The Nome nugget., 1948-04-14
Walt Disney Films
 To Portray Alaska

HOLLYWOOD, - (P) Walt Disney is planning to show the world the untold wonders of Al aSka.
 For two years, the cartoon wiz ard has been gathering materials on the northern territory. Last summer he made a thorough tour of Alaska, even into the Arctic Circle, and he has posted a man to gather material there the year round.
 Few people realize the immense possibilities of Alaska" Walt said. Tt will be an easier land to set tie than was the American west, because there are no Indians"
 Just cold? I suggested.
 "It's no colder than Minnesota he said in defense.
 Walt said he plans to use the material as 'factual entertain ment," similar to the subjects he has made on South America. q plan to show what is there, plus the fable and legend of the land he explained. The films will com pine live action and cartoon. As yet, he doesn't know whether the film will take the shape of feat. ures or of short subjects.
The Nome nugget., 1948-04-14
JOHN BADEN. WIFE RESIGN FROM ANS

JUNEAU, The resignation of MT. and Mrs. John Paden from the Alaska Native Service was an- nounced April 6, by Don Foster, ANS general superintendent. The resignations were made, said Eos ter, because of the serious illness Of Mrs. Paden, who has been in the States for the past two months receiving medical treatment.
 Paden has been with the US. Indian Service for II years and was acting as ANS field repres- entative at the time of his resig- nation. His resignation will be eff
The Nome nugget., 1948-04-14
JUNEAU ARCHITECT HERE
 TO PLAN FOR NOME HOSPITAL

Harold Floss, Well-known Jun eau architect, arrived in Nome on the Pan American plane Tuesday night.
 He is here to present set of plans for the proposed new hos pital to Dr. J. B. Tucker, who is managing the hospital here for the Women's Division of the Meth odist Mission Board.
 Those who have seen the plans report that with a few changes they appear to be excellent.
The Nome nugget., 1948-04-14
GOTTSCHALK RETURNED
 TO FAIRBANKS TUESDAY

Harry Gottschalk, who is plan ming to open a tavern in Nome this spring as soon as premises are vacated by Gordon's Shoe Store, returned to his home in Fairbanks yesterday.
The Nome nugget., 1948-04-14
DIR. Wm. CHARTERS
 IS MAYOR OF SITKA

pr. William CharteriS, formerly of Nome, was elected as mayor of Sitka in that city's election held last week.
The Nome nugget., 1948-04-14
STANLEY PARSONS HAVE
 BABY DAUGHTER TUESDAY

MT. and Mrs. Stanley Parsons, of the Alaska Airlines here. are the proud parents of baby daugh- te~ born in Anchorage yesterday. fective on April l5. He will join the Alaska Native Industries Coop erative Association in Seattle. No successor has yet been appointed.
Evening star., 1948-12-03
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Evening star., 1948-12-03
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