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 >
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