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little fertilizer. They have all done well save the onions, which have not amounted 

 to much. 



Of the oats, wheat, and barley I planted them in old tried fertilized ground, and 

 also planted ordinary California chicken feed wheat in the same ground. 



The California wheat beat all the other seeds, that being fully headed, and about 

 4 feet high when I cut it. I have made ensilage of that wheat, and also made the 

 same amount of ensilage of our native grass, and shall watch for results now as to 

 the relative values of the two for that purpose. I will let you know as to what the 

 outcome is. 



Very truly, yours, 



H. Bohtt. 



Prof. C. C. Georgeson, Sitka. Alaska. 



REPORT FROM ROLL BROTHERS HOPE CITY. 



Hope City, Cook Inlet, Alaska, April 8, 1901. 



Dear Sir: Your seeds mailed February 28 came to hand April 24. We herewith 

 send you the following report concerning our gardening in the season of 1900. 



Carrots. —Parisian Forcing and Half Long Chantenay. The Half Long Chantenay 

 did not germinate because the ground must have been too cold. Both kinds again 

 sown May 25, coming up June 14. A 130-foot drill row produced 60 pounds medium 

 carrots on two-year-old good soil. Parisian Forcing proved to be about 25 pounds 

 more productive than the other kind on the same soil and bed. Sandy rich soil 

 proves best for carrots in this part of Alaska. 



Beets. — Extra Early Eclipse Blood Turnip, and Early Bassano Blood Turnip, and 

 Early Blood Turnip. The first-named were sown May 8, in drills, and the two other 

 kinds were sown May 24, also in drills; 468 feet of row produced 152 pounds mer- 

 chantable beets. Extra Early Eclipse proved to be the best. Early Bassano pro- 

 duced large tops and shaded the ground too much, therefore not good for Alaska. 

 Beets weighed from \ to 1 pound. 



Beans. — Extra Refugee, planted in June, seeded \ pound in a 100-foot drill, on three- 

 year-old sandy soil; had blossomed by August 1, and by August 29 they were dam- 

 aged some by the frost, and produced only 1 pound very small pods September 10. 



Cabbage. — Early York, Early Summer, and Late Flat Dutch. The last-named did 

 not get solid. The season is too short for a late variety. Seed sown in a box in 

 the house came up April 1. Seed sown in hotbed outdoors March 27 came up 

 April 13. Cabbage transplanted May 25, June 5, also June 13. Altogether 482 

 plants produced 972 pounds of cabbage (merchantable cabbage). Thirty of the 

 late kind proved to be a failure. Thirty or forty of the early kind did not head or 

 mature. On May 28 we had a heavy snowfall, about 1£ inches, which did a good 

 deal of damage to the plants. 



All plants were set 3 feet apart each way, and we had marked the first matured 

 cabbage on the 14th day of August. 



August 14, weight of cabbage as follows: 1 head, 2 pounds; 24 heads, 80 pounds; 

 5 heads, 16 pounds. September 15, 1 head, 8 pounds; 1 head, 6 pounds (3 weighed 

 17 pounds) ; 1 head, 5 pounds. December 13, weight of 41 heads, 164 pounds (made 

 into sauerkraut) . Each 4 pounds. The last week in October the weather was getting 

 too cold for cabbage. We have had about 450 pounds in our root house. The house 

 or cabin was made of a double log wall, filled in between with 18 inches of earth. 

 The frost penetrated in the early part of the winter, therefore we had to keep the 

 cold out by artificial heat. We have weighed the cabbages whenever we have dis- 

 posed of any of them. At this writing we have on hand 17 heads. 



