Alaska Teacher Returns to Lead Mountain School Life
Carol Coburn, daughter of a bush miner, comes north to teach in isolated Alaska. Sidney Lander, a mining engineer, helps her aboard a ship, while Barbara Trumbull fights Coburns claim. Carol notes shifts in Lander career plans and bonds with Salaria Bryson as she teaches in remote homesteads and confronts frontier life.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carol Coburn
Sidney Lander
Eric
Red
Sidney
Shack
Carol
Matanuska
Barbara
Lander
Ont
Valley voices clash over progress and old ways
A narrator recalls discussions on progress including hospitals schools churches roads telephones and a radio station while Salaria criticizes modern meddling and a winter cleanup by a college deod. The tale shifts to Sid ney Lander and Sock-Eye detailing mutual disapproval and lingering tension in the valley.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Saria
Salaria
Sidney Lander
Bearskin at the door sparks a tense trailside talk
Sock-Eye drops by with a bearskin and hints of a man to man talk about Sid Lander. Salaria defends her bond with him while musing on Sid and Big John Trumbull’s daughter as Sam Bryson’s daughter stirs trouble and a looming marriage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sock-Eye
Sam Bryson
Salaria
Bryson
Lock-Eye
Sid Lander
Sid
Big John Trumbull
Lander
Anchorage
States
Ol’ Sock-Eye
Bull handling dangers and safety tips for dairymen
Extension dairy expert Dr. George E. Taylor explains why careless bull handling is deadly and outlines safe practices. He advocates sturdy bull stalls and fences, nose rings on staff, mandatory horn removal, year old training, separate breeding pens, and pasture exercise to reduce injuries.
Poor Year for Wheat Causes Premium Losses
A weak wheat year triggered high indemnities under the 1940 crop insurance program. Leroy K. Smith, manager of the Federal Crop Insurance Corporation, cited Nebraska Texas Kansas and Oklahoma as major sources of the roughly 22 million bushels paid in indemnities while growers paid about 15 million bushels in premiums and the company paid out about 7 million more than it took in. He warned that such heavy acreage abandonments are unlikely every year and normal yields should lead to premium collections exceeding indemnities.
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Leroy. K. Smith
Federal
Crop. Insurance Corporation
Nebraska
Texas
Kansas
Okhomia
Smith
Seed labeling rule eyed after misbranding seed oats seizure
Agricultural notes report that the New York New England region yields 16.6 percent of the national apple crop and has 16.9 percent of the population. The forest service planted 288 million fish in 34 states and Alaska in 1939. Federal law requires interstate field seeds to be labeled by variety.
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New York-New England
The
Forest Service
States
Alaska
U. S. Department of Agriculture
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Chapter
Willow Creek
Seward
Barbara Trumbull
Sock- Eye
Parka
Mukluks
S'lary
Gover
Minin
George E. Taylor
New Jersey College of Agriculture
Rutgers University
Agricultural News
WNU Service
Henri Bergson
Lydia
Pinkham
Doans
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