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ning of June the plants were 3 inches tall, when I transplanted them in open ground. 

 At the end of September I cut them down (almost 50 plants) , and have them now in 

 process of curing. The biggest leaves are 20 inches long without the stems, and the 

 plants 3£ feet tall. 



As farmers in Finland grow tobacco successfully for their own consumption, I can 

 not see any reason why we can not do the same in Alaska. 



I sowed barley (Manshury) on May 23 on two beds. It commenced to show up 

 June 1, headed July 27, commenced to bloom August 10. October 11, when I har- 

 vested it, the straw was still a little green, but the seeds were hard. The straw 

 measured 3 J feet tall. 



Buckwheat (Silver Hull) seeded May 23. I raised the seed the previous summer. 

 It came up June 5 and I gathered it October 11; matured only 10 per cent of the 

 seeds formed after blooming. 



Planted beans (Broad Windsor) May 23; they were blooming July 27, and bloom- 

 ing still. Plants are 4 feet tall and have pods on them; lower pods are full grown 

 but green. 



I sowed the following seeds from May 23 to May 26, besides those mentioned 

 above: Onions (Yellow Dan vers), parsley, cauliflower, rhubarb, peas, spinach, 

 cucumber, parsnip, carrots, beets, kale, cabbage, mustard, clovers, sunflowers, car- 

 away, sage, asparagus, lettuce, radish, turnips, ruta-baga, watermelon, and musk 

 melon. 



The biggest onion from seed measured 1\ inches in diameter. The biggest parsnip 

 measured 1| inches in diameter. The biggest carrot, If inches in diameter. The 

 biggest beet, 4 inches in diameter. Asparagus is 6 inches tall at present. I was very 

 successful with these vegetables, considering that the ground had been cultivated 

 only one year. 



I gathered a good lot of potatoes. It was a very bad year; the spring was late and 

 very rainy, and the fall cloudy. 

 Yours, truly, 



Alexander Friedolin. 



Prof. C. C. Ueorgeson, Sitka, Alaska. 



experiments at afognak. 



Apognak, Alaska, October 24, 1901. 



Sir: I received a great variety of seed from your station last spring, as well as the 

 spring of 1900, and of these I have given the following trial: Romanow wheat, Man- 

 shury barley, Ligowa oats, Riga flax, red, white, and alsike clover. All were sown 

 the 23d of May, in an old potato garden, the soil being a sandy loam, manured with 

 kelp in the fashion it is generally done here for potatoes. 



The three kinds of grain were doing surprisingly well up to the 10th of July, when 

 cattle broke into the garden and ate off every straw clear to the ground. They grew 

 up again very fast, however, and to my great astonishment I found the barley head- 

 ing on July 24; the oats were a week later, and the wheat a few days thereafter; but 

 the growth was stunted, of course, especially so with the barley, the straw of same 

 not being any longer than just before it was eaten off. 



On the 13th of October the barley was harvested; height about 2 feet, very even, 

 fine heads, and seed ripe enough to germinate. On the last named date the wheat 

 and oats were yet perfectly green, the former about 4 feet high and the latter 3. 



The flax began blooming about July 24, seed nearly ripe October 13, height over 

 2 feet. 



The clover was slow in making a start, but since it was once well up grew very 

 fast, and the latter part of the summer the white and alsike clover looked as fine 



