The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1908-11-12
PUR71OT 0F H07' cSPRLWCS =
T1qRT an The 7HfyH/XA -

[JfW1 C/I //IE /T/J|H'T
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. Parrnips and beets
did fairly WELL Potai oes about eight
fold. They, as we'll as everything else.
seem TO grow better as the ground
gets worked we'll with manure. My
flowers did not do very well. probably
due to late planting. Rutabagas and
turnips grow fine. l am well pleased
with the results, but expect to do still
better next season, as am learning.
Henry Butke, Chena. Alaska. Octo-
ber 10, 1906.-I 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, I never saw any better out In
the states. Parsley. onions. and celery
did not do very well. l planted tur-
nips, potatoes and string beans. some
seed that had. and they were extra
fine. In fact, the only stun that did
not do well were onion, parsley and
celery.
F.. N. Kreuz, Fairbanks, November
4. 1907.-My place is 80 by SO feet.
The soil was only six inches deep, so
| wheeled some soil from the road to
a depth of 1 IA feet, and had about three
inches OF wood ashes and four inches
OF old horse manure mixed with II and
tamped so the soil was raised n feet
above the ground. l planted two
boxes with Wakefield cabbage. kept
them in the cabin. and transpianted
May 10. They did not grow much for
the first two weeks. A big worm
was eating the leaves of the stem. I
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 1t 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. It was the best 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 1t
turned out very successfully, in fact
! all but peas; they we're planted on the
first OF June and came up In about Ave
days and grew nicely for three weeks
! and then seemed to stop for nearly q
month. They then took another very
| thrifty start and grew luxuriantly for
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 well as at any
place ! ever saw. All seeds were
planted in n sandy loan or sedi
, mentary deposit Of the river.
w. II. Snyder, Council, Alaska, De-
cember 8, 1906.-I have had garden
here for the last four years that has
been 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; 1t 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
| Pile 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 frcm 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
very different story to tell, having had
wonderful success with some. partic-
ularly radlshes. 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 "a grrvth of nearly
two inches in diameter, and were still
as crisp and tender as amy radishes
ever ate. Immediately adjoining us
Henry Kuehne guarded and tended
one of his earliest and largest turnips
and at tho close OF the season II meas
ured over 22 inches in circumference
and weighed little over four pounds.