Al4—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, November 29,1980 ANCHORAGE, Alaska “about break even" if milk Raising milk cows on Point and cheese is offered at McKenzie isn’t expected to prices competitive with the be a get-rich proposition. Pacific Northwest, John Farmers taking part in the Nash, Matanuska-Susitna state dairy project will Borough deputy mayor, told A kid’ll eat ivy too? Here’s a question from Roland Kamoda of Monogahela that tends to bring out the kid in me who doesn’t remember the nursery rhyme about mares and does eating oats and little lambs eating ivy. He writes: I don’t know anything about goats and have some poison ivy to get rid of. Would they eat it? What’s the best breed that gives milk? Getting my information from a most reliable source, I can tell you that goats do indeed eat poison ivy. However, I’ll pass along this word of caution it gives them diarrhea if they eat too much at one time If you’re buying goats to clean up your fence rows and grown up pastures (which they do an excellent job on, by the way), you should introduce the goats to their cleanup task a few hours at a tune At the same time, they should be fed hay whenever you bring them back to the barn As far as which is the best breed for milking, I learned there is no significant production difference bet ween the breeds. However, the Nubians give more cream and their milk has a slightly different taste. Mr. Kamoda has asked a special favor of the readers of Lancaster Farming. He writes that he fell in love with a sweet gum tree and is looking for seeds to plant. If anyone has the potential offspring for a similar tree, please let him know by writing Roland G. Kamoda, R 1 Box 282, Monongahela, Alaska to offer dairymen $lOO per acre farms Brief answers to short questions Sheila's Shorts By Sheila Miller PA 15063. In reference to a recent column I wrote about a nut growers association, Mr. Kamoda has since informed me - there is another association the Northern Nut Growers Association, 4518 Holston Hills Road, Knoxville, Tennessee 37914. He said this Association is world-wide, puts out a newsletter, and has an an nual convention and report. Just thought I’d pass that tidbit of information along. To market, to market It seems there is a growing interest in our poultry and small animal market reports, especially Fogelsville Poultry and our latest addition, Hemsey’s Poultry If you, like Edward Geiger, 515 Cypress St., Lehighton, PA 18235, would like to market some rabbits or poultry at these two auctions, it would help to know how to get there Fogelsville Auction is held near a town that bears its namesake To find Fogelsville, look for Lehigh County on the map or better yet, find Allentown Then travel west along In terstate 78 until you reach Route 100, and there’s Fogelsville. Hemsey’s is located in Lancaster County, between Manheim and East Peter sburg. Traveling north or south on Route 72 from either town, you head west on Auction Road Then in one short mile, you’ll find your at Root’s Market, home of Hemsey’s Poultry But remember, both markets are held on one day only during the week Tuesday. Resource Development Council of Alaska members. According to the An chorage Times, some 15,000 acres of Point McKenzie land is set aside for disposal by lottery m March to qualified dairy farmers. It will be sold for $lOO an acre, Nash said. Apart from state loans costing the fanners six percent interest, there are no plans to sub sidize or protect farmers with tariffs. The borough expects the dairy project, begun two years ago, to increase the number of milk cows by 3000. Milk production is expected to reach $8 million a year by 1985. The valley economy would be enhanced by $4O million a year, Nash said. Although dairy production competitive with die Pacific Northwest is the immediate goal, ideas for long-range industrial growth are taking shape in the minds of borough officials. Borough attorney Allan Tesche called the borough “a developing nation within the state.” The borough is working with Dow Chemical to examine the feasibility of locating a gas liquids con ditioning plant within its boundary, he said Plentiful coal could produce inex pensive power Limestone there could be the basis for a cement plant at Point McKenzie The borough has 1.2 million acres of commercial timber land and numerous minerals apart from gold, platinum and silver. Kaiser Aluminum has expressed an interest m building a plant m the valley if sufficient power is available, he said The dairy project is ex pected to turn around the valley’s milk production, which has declined during the past several years. The means to process and market the dairy products already exists, Nash said. Nash said 10 qualified fanners already have ex pressed interest in the project, but one valley fanner is concerned that those with power and money would get the land George Barton said he had applied for farm land made available near Talkeetna m 1977 but despite 20 years’ dairy farming experience in know how to farm and are development nghts to Wisconsin, was refused, holding the land for “ ein ® at Almost ail of those who got development. McKenzie, which must the land, he said, do not The state will keep * or a £ r * cu * ture > said. M.H. EBY, INC. Manufacturer of All Aluminum Track Bodies Distributor of iiiiflUMi Refrigerated Trailers Blue Bali, Pa. SMUCKER'S SALES & SERVICE RD #2, BOX 21 NEW HOLLAND, PA 17557 DISTRIBUTOR FOR: ' ■> - JSj The Deutz 912 series engines are different because they have direct fuel injection! 2Cyl F2L-912 We Have SR2 12 h.p. 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