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Oats: vSowii Juiu" I'.i .mikI beaikHl out Au.i^ust \'2, al)()iit 2i feet higU. It was 

 planted on good soil and made good feed on OctoliiT 1. A few seeds scattered 

 around on the snow in the spring turned yellow befon; frost and the seed fell to 

 the ground. We shall see if any of it turns uj) volunteer next spring. 



Timothy: Seed scattered around in the fall of VMi came up well and grew 

 2* feet high this year, but last winter was very mild. 



Millet: Seed sown .Inly H ; grew (> inches high, but was killed by frost Au- 

 gust •2-2. 



I'otatoes: Planted June 23; 15 pounds of seed produced 75 pounds of very 

 small potatoes. I shall keep part of this seed and try it in the spring. 



I replanted wild raspberries June 20; July 27 I filled in and planted more — 

 about 125 plants in all — and have cultivated them several times. I found wild 

 berries ripe July 2(j, and they lasted till September 1. They grow in abimdance 

 on the hillsides, where the sun strikes them, and should respond to cultivation. 

 I shall manure these next winter and cultivate them next summer. 



I also took up and replanted about 50 plants of red and black currants ; 

 they are found wild along the small ravines and creeks. I am afraid the place 

 I planted them in is too exposed, though I covered their roots well with grass 

 mulch. Everything planted in the open field before May 10 did not do as well 

 as a few days later. 



September 30 I buried in holes 2 feet deep or more and covered 1 foot deep, 

 heaping well on top. so as to drain in the spring, a few pounds of each of the 

 following : Carrots, turni[)s. cabl)age, beets, home-grown carrots, onions, pota- 

 toes, and ruta-bagas. I shall see how they winter and report it. 



For two years I have had volunteer pansies. 



Lettuce did very well, some heading up almost like cabbage, at least a foot 

 across. 



Radishes did well, liut. like the other roots, did better in the new soil, which 

 had a coat of 2 inches or more of ashes of burnt A'egetation. In the rich soil 

 the radishes were wormy, but not in the new soil. They grew 2 to 3 inches 

 thick. I saved some radish seed pods, which I think are ripe enough to grow- 

 in the si)ring. 



I brought in a few strawberry iilants from Dawson, but they did not live. 

 They have to be taken in in the fall in Dawson or most of them winterkill. 



Rhubarb did well on a ranch above me this year, and I shall plant some next 

 year. 



Parsley grew very nicely all summer. 



My soil was not flooded when Fairbanks and Chena were overflowed this 

 season. It is high and dry, and I believe excellent potato soil. I expect to 

 put in quite a piece next year. 



This year was very rainy after July 1. Before that time we carried water 

 for cabbage and cauliflower. Next year I shall try to irrigate with a water 

 wheel, as the Tanana River runs past my place. 



REPORTS FOR 1904. 



The following letters, which refer to the season of 1904, w^ere 

 received too late for publication in the report for that year. They 

 are printed here because many of them are of mnch value in that they 

 give the reader a good insight in the prevailing conditions. The 

 season of 1904 was backward and tnifav()ral)le in the coast region, 

 but it was, on the contrary, (iiiite fav()ral)]e in the interior. The re- 



