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suited for it. Lettuce, radishes and
carrots of any kind grow as we'll as in
any country Scarlet Horn is really
the best carrot. Parsnips and beets
did fairly we'll Potatoes about eight
fold They, as well as everything else,
seem to grow better as the ground
gets worked well with manure. My
flowers did not do very well, probably
due to late planting. Rutabagas and
turnips grow fine. / am we'll pleased
with the results, but expect to do still
better next season, as I am learning.
Henry Butke, Chena, Alaska. Octo-
Der 15, 1867 wish to report the re-
suit of the seed that was sent me.
Brussels sprouts. cabbage kale, car
rots and rutabaga all did very well;
in fact, never saw any better out in
the states Parsley, onions, and celery
did not do very well. / planted tur-
nips, potatoes and string beans, some
seed that had, and they were extra
fine. In fact, the only stuff that did
not do well were onion, parsley and
celery.
F. n. Kreuz, Fairbanks, November
4, 1907.-My place is sc by so feet.
The soil was only six inches deep, so
| wheeled some soil from the road to
a depth of y feet. and had about three
inches of wood ashes and four inches
of old horse manure mixed with it and
tamped so the soil was raised 1 " feet
above the ground. l planted two
boxes with Wakefield cabbage, kept
them in the cabin, and transplanted
May 10. They did not grow much for
the first two weeks. big worm
was eating the leaves off the stem. 1
had to keep transplanting them again
until finally had the worms destroyed.
1t grew profusely in dark rich healthy
colors at all times. On June Is it COM
menced to head up. Planted them IS
inches by three feet apart in rows.
On September Is. when cut, from 10 to
Is heads weighed Is pounds apiece.
all good solid food for cooking; the
smallest weighed seven pounds; so
heads in all. 1t was the best l have
seen anywhere around town.
c. A. Fowler. Kuskokwim River,
Alaska, February 2, 1907 planted
the seed sent here by the experiment
station and can say that most of it
turned out very successfully, in fact
all but peas; they were planted on the
first of June and came up in about five
days and grew nicely for three weeks
and then seemed to stop for nearly a
month. They then took another very
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the rest of the season. but did not pro-
duce anything at all. Potatoes, tur-
nips, radishes, cabbage. kale, rutabaga
and lettuce did just as we'll as at any
place | ever saw. All seeds were
planted in sandy loan or a sedi-
mentary deposit of the river
W. H. Snyder. Council. Alaska. De-
cember 8. 1906-I have had a garden
here for the last four years that has
been a success. Radishes. turnips.
beets, and all early vegetables do
well. Had one hill of potatoes that
yielded six pounds of nice potatoes.
have blue grass growing; it does
well. We have fine soil. | think
wheat oats and barley can be grown
for hay.
Judge C. w. Thornton. Nome. Alas
ka, November 10, 1907 hereby re-
port to you my success and partial
failures with plants, trees and seeds
received from your station: First, ap-
pie trees; these, with currant and
raspberry bushes, arrived in July.
They had evidently been on the way
for some time and did not appear to
be in the best of condition. However,
they were carefully planted and given
attention and appeared to be doing
well up to the latter part of August.
when we had several cold storms.
which seemed to blight and wither
them and from which they seemed
never to recover. The final freeze up
came about the first of October, and
these trees and bushes seem now to
be dead. With vegetables have a
very different story to tell. having had
wonderful success with some, partic-
ularly radishes, lettuce, turnips and
spinach. In fact. | beg to venture the
assertion that no better radishes and
turnips can be grown any place in the
world than right here in Nome.
raised three crops of radishes on one
patch Of ground and some of the first
crop, left in until the close OF the
season, attained growth OF nearly
two inches In diameter. and were still
as crisp and tender as any radishes I
ever ate. Immediately adjoining us
Henry Kuehne guarded and tended
one OF his earliest and largest turnips
and at the close OF the season It meas.
ured over 22 inches in circumference
and weighed a little over four pounds.