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jjmt 29th, 1928, at the postoffice at
Fokotna, Alaska, under the Act of
March &, 1879.
Takotna, Alaska, May 24, 1930
FI R EXPERIMENT FARM AT
COtl.LGE IS RECOMMENDED
Acting: on tie recommendation of
Commissioner Charles H. Flory, the
Department of Agriculture has given
approval to a plan for the establish
ment of a federal fur experiment sta
tion in connection with the Alaska
College, and the bureau of the budget
will be asked to approve an appro
priation sufficient to inaugurate the
work, says the Anchorage Times,
in explanation of the action taken
by him, Commissioner Flory .informed
the Times that he regarded thg Alas
ka College the logical, place for the
establishment of such a station, for
the reason that the federal govern
ment already ,has a some v^at. similar
wqrk . jqder way at the College and is
planning ti\g, extension of its activi
ties thgre ■which shortly will provide
considerable work- for a veterinarian,
bureau pf biological -urvey, under co
operative arrangement with the Col
lege, has made very satisfactory pro
gress with, its studie sin cross-breed
ing-reindeer and caribou and it is
also conducting feeding experiments
with reindeer to determine the feasi
bility of “topping off” reindeer before
slaughtering season. Carrying ca
pacity studies to determine actual
actual acreage requirements of rein
deer on various types of of forage,
and plant studies to ascertain the ef
fect of climate on forage growth,
have been initiated there.
In connection wth the biological
survey projects, already under, way,
six pasture are^s. totaling 813 acres
have been fenced with net wire and
an additional, area of 432. acres is
now in process .of,fencing. Reindeer
and carbou in t steadily increasing
numbers are confined in this pasture
and the survey, in co-operation with
the Alaska Game Commission, also
has three buffalos pastured in the
corrals.. A contemplated expansion
of tqp^'OdrH thpre is the domesticat
ing of pioqntqin goats and sheep.
in;yiew ,pf these activities, Mr.
Flo ry believes a fur experiment sta
tion »miit,i» very, nicely. Its estab
lishment at j ^he College would make
pjossiblq a great savjng in overhead,
and the work done there, the commis
sioner is certain, will he of benefit to
all furifarmers throughout the Terri
tory, however remote their locations
may be.
The proposed station, Mr. Flory
erplains, would supplement the ser
vice no wbeing rendered fur farmers
byi Dr. Earl Graves. It would bring
an additional veterinarian to the Ter
ritory, with permanent headquarters
at the College station, and the work
of visiting the fur farms throughout
the Territory would go on undis
turbed, except that it would have
more thorough direction. The veteri
narian in the field would be directed
by the veterinarian at the station and
the work carried on at the station
would ft ea help to him in solving the
proMema.met with at the various fur
farms.
Cojnmissioner Flory believes there
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is a- great- future in Alaska for the
fyr fanning industry and it is very
gratifying to him to find his depart
ment ready to lend the additional aid
suggested by him.
WOLVES AND COYOTES.
Wolves and coyotes, thou.eh just
fretting a foothold in Alaska, are al
ready doing terrible damage. In Ore
gon and other western parts they
have been most destructive for many
years, as may be seen from the fol
lowing two items taken from the
Portland Oregonian:
Mad Coyotes Got Antelope.
Sutherlin, Ore.—A great service is
rendered to the State by the Biolog
ical Survey in calling attention to the
danger to the livestock, interests of
the State from rabid coyotes.
No one can understand the menace
of mad coyotes like one who has
lived on the dese-t and witnessed the
great losses of the past from this
source. I liven! many years near the
foot of Bg Junper mountain and was
a witness of the havoc wrought in
1915-16, the year ta which the Bio
logical Survey calls attention.
Afer the passin got the calamity.
Lake and Harney counties were al
most without livestock. Hutton broth
ers, Sol Chandler, Bill Brown and the
Z. X. company at Paisley were among
the heavy losers. Hutton brothers
found themselves entirely out of the
cattle business, and Sol Chandler lost
heavily in both cattle and sheep,
while Bill Brown lost more than ' a
thousand horses. Between Big Juni
per and Paisley could be seen dead
animals by thousands. This great
loss reached from Summer Lake to
Ontario. Harney was one of the
heaviest losers, for Bill Hanley used
to graze his cattle and horses on a
thousand hills,
1 have wondered why the Biological
Survey and the Oregon game depart
ment never learned the true reason
of the disappearance of the prong
horn antelope. They were cryisg
sheepherder when all the sheep
herders in Oregon would not kill ten
antelopes in ten years. Mad coyotes
were responsible for the great loss of
life among the pronghorns _
“The best thing the Oregon sena
torial delegation could dp for the
State would be to have a federal
bounty placed on coyotes,” declares
Ben Calvin, for 28 year? a stockman
in Grant county. “Complete destruc
tion of coyotes would make land more
valuable and it would be a great help
to the sheep industry, for if there
were no coyotes the .cost of herding
could be reduced. I am a cattleman
and noot a sheepman, but 1 think that
sheep do not ruin a . .range except
when they are herded. Now as for
the coyotes. The government has
professional hunters, but they don’t
want to go into a district unless the
coyotes are thick, as that makes their
work easier. I am told that it costs
the government about $18 or $20 for
every coyote killed by, the profes
sional hunters. I think that if the
government placed a bounty of $5 or
$6 on coyotes for a few years and
then doubled the bounty, there would
not be a coyote left in the United:
States in ten years. It wouldn’t do
any good for Oregon to have a
bounty, for then pelts would be i
brought in from adjoining States to
collect the bounty. The only way a
bounty will work satisfactorily is for
the federal government to post the
bounty and make it nation-wide. With
such an incentive the boys on the
ranches would go out and get every
cub they could see.”
The hill back of Takotna is from
900 to 950 feet above sea level, ac
cording to altitude measurements ob
served several days ago. Takotna
mountain is 3,400 feet above sea
level.
A magnetii street sweeper, demon
strated in Miami, Fla., recently,
pulled up most of the man holes in
its travels.
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CANNIBAL MOSQUITO
FOUND TO PROTECT MAN
HONOLULU.—Discovery of a new.
weapon for exterminating mosqui
toes is disclosed in a campaign to rid
Hawaiian sugar plantations of the
pest.
A newly-found race o+‘; mosquitoes
destroy the biting kind by millions,
yet themselves lack the biting loci
necessary to bite man.
The cannibals are whoppers, an
inch long, brightly colored in blue
greens and browns.
It sounds like a fary tale to add
that n adult stage after they have
destroyed their quota of mosquitoes,
they live on the nectar of flowers and
juices of crushed or broken fruit, but
that is the plain scientific dietary faft
reported by their discoverer, C. E.
Pemberton, a Hawaiian entomologist.
Pemberton found these mosquitoes
while hunting for the most effective
of all methods of insect control—
namely, a parasite, a bug which lives
on the pest, and incidentally kills
him.
He found in New Britain the an
swer in the larvae of the large,
bright-colored mosquitoes.
These larvae were feeding on other
larvae, with preference for the wig
glers of blood-sucking mosquitoes.
Pemberton found that each big
mother cannibal mosquito lad about
tiD eggs, and each wiggler developing
therefrom ate about 250 larvae.
Arithmetic shows that the young
of one mother might destroy about
15,000 mosquitoes, and her grand
children more than 50,000,000.
Recently Pemberton turned loose
among the plantations 300 of the big
larvae to see whether they would
multiply in their new home.
Transport.ng them frqm New Brit
ain ref aired entomological L.ger
cemuin. The steamers take more
ihan 21 days for the trip, but niter
21 days the wigglers turn into mos
quitoes.
Pemberton needed them to be still
in the wiggler stage on arrival.
He learne dho wto delay their ma
turity by underfeeding. At each
steamer stop he went ashore, catch
ing mosquito larvae for his flock or
300, and brought the mashore safely.
WANTS A RECOUNT OF
WASHINGTON CENSUS
WASHINGTON, May 19.—Sugges
tions for a recount of the population
of the National Capital have followed
the announcement of the census bu
reau for 1930 showing an enumera
tion of 485,716, a gain of only 11 per
cent over the population 437,57±
counted at the last census. Numerous
persons have claimed they were not
enumerated.
The population of Cleveland was
announced by the bureau as 897,000,.
an increase of 100,000, or 12 per cent.
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Locust Swarms Still Bid Defiance to
Man.
There have been locust plagues
ever since the days of the Pharaohs,
'they arc still plagung the earth. Only
a short time ago the Kenyal (South
Africa) colony fruit show had to be
abandoned, as the locusts had eaten
nearly the whole of the fruit crop?
Cases of swarms descending on a field
field of crops and in a few seconds;
leaving it completely barren of vege- j
table life are not at all uncommon;
but they do even more amazing
things than that. There is the case
of a Buenos Aires and Pacific railway
train traveling along the open coun- t
try at 60 miles an hour, which was
stopped dead by a plague of. locusts,,
lhe driver and fireman saw them and
exercised themselves to get every
ounce of speed out.of the engine with.,
the idea of getting through the
swarmm before the impetus gave out.
In a moment the train dashed
straight into the swarming mass and
was plowing straight through it,
erushin gcountless numbers of insects
with every revolution of the wheels.
The wheels became slimed as if they
had been greased and then, lost their
grip of the rails They simply spun
around without moving the train, jue
fore the train could be got moving
again the fireman bad to take his
shovel to the front of the engine,
shovel u phuge masses of the insects
and iiing them clear of the track. By
that method it became possible to
move the train a few yards at a time
until it was finally clear of the dense
mass and could carry on with, the
journey.—Ex.
She’ll See to That.
"Mummy, can all anges sfllx,?!*~
“ies, darling.”
“i>ut cook can’t fly and daddy/caMc
her his little angel.”
"No, but she will fly, dear.”
Inmates of some English poort.
houses are complaining because hj>err
has lately been excluded from.tbsrt.
menu.
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