The Alaska citizen., 1912-06-03

brush which does not have the heavy growth cf timber that which been for potato culture
 some farmers are attempting raise hogs rather an extensive scale but doubt very much if will prove very profitable, especially while the farm products find ready market high prices H w ever. if the farmer will a considerable area of root crops and build large pr cellars in which To store the crop for winter feed he hog business pay Porkers sell 35 and cents pound net Hogs have 10 be housed in winter protected tr m the cold by artificial heat
 Poultry another source of considerable profit when properly managed It is estimated that 0O0 cases of eggs shipped annually from Seattle to Falrhanks and 23 per cent of these hauled in the ice in winter at During the winter months retail at sl s2 a dozen while the few | cal ranch eggs usually sold dollar higher
 GRASSES
 Nothing has heen done the culture of grasses during the last year the seeding acres of timothy rather flat southern exposure The tract was seeded thckly on June 23 with drill to insure quick and even stand. The timothy GOV cred the ground It made from 12 inches growth and much of it headed.
 A patch of timothy seeded with winter grain in Augus l91o made a fair start and lived through the winter It matured seed in August on stems two or three feet tall but too scattering
 Volunteer red clover found the garden and potato patch made large plants blooming in July
 GRAINS
 he possibility of maturing early varieties O oats, barley and fall grains has been proven beyond further question All fall seedlings of wheat and rye have matuured every since the station was started The wheat sometimes partly winter kills however mak. ing the thin. Rye stands the winters better than wheat and seldom fails to make a good crop Fall grains should be seeded very early in August And the grain is usually from the 10th to the 18th of the following August
 The ripenng of spring grains depends largely on the earlines of the seeding The seed should be in the ground not later than May 20h, however the earliest varieties will usually seedlings up to June l. and often later seedlings will mature depend- ing, of course. the laeness the fall
 As mentioned elsewhere ttis report the variety test plot work has been discontinued for the present but few leading varieties wheat. oats and barley The grain was drilled by hand light furr ws made with wheel hoe cultivator and covered with garden rake The soil south slope birch land. planted to potatoes last year the first breaking These grains all came up very quickly and made rank growth so rank that light rains the straw to start falling be2re it had fully headed By the time the grain had formed every plot laid flat if a roller had been drawn across it. This certainly retarded the rpening of the grain, nevertheless four varieties of barley, viz: Hanna No. 5,193 Manchuria Beardless No. 9s52 Huless No 19,S51. and as many of oats all matured god seed Three varieties spring and one of spring all filled we'll grain had not fully ripened before the killing frost August 31 The Romanow and Red Fife varieties Vanced and would have made seed if it had been and covered before the killing frost.
 A half tract of south slope birch land was seeded to North Finnish May 16. The ground was yet very wet but account of urgent request from the department to mature seed of this variety, if