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Entered as secona-ciass matter Au
jgust 29th, 1923, at the postoffice at
'Tokotna, Alaska, under the Act oi
KMarch 3, 1879.
Takntna. Alaska, August 10, 1,29.
1EXPERIMENTING IN HARDIER
.VARIETIES OF TREE FRUITS
The growing of the hardier varie
tties of tree fruits is receiving atten
tion at the Matanuska experiment
: station, the work being in the nature
• of a new experiment which was in
augurated this year. An outline ol
tthe work is contained in the follow
ing statement given to the Anchorage
'Times by Dr. H. W. Alberts, director
•of experiment stations in Alaska:
‘‘For some time the agricultural ex
periment station made a free distri
bution of seeds and bush fruits to set
ttlers in the Territory. In the early
jpioneer days, when it was necessary
tto^determine what kind of vegetables
vwould grow well in the gardens,
:Sleds oi various varieties of vege
ttables and plants, such as raspber
ries, gooseberries, currants and
.■strawberries, were sent from the exl
jperiment stations to the settlers with
out charge. A report was required in
teach instance showing the perform
ance of the plants under Alaskan coh
(ditiuns. It was found that plants be
llonging to the Cruciferee family, in
cluding cabbage, cauliflower, kohlrabi,
iturnips, rutabagas, and brussel
japrouts, grew well in nearly all sec
tions of Alaska where land is culti
wated. Celery, radishes, beets, car
rots, onions, parsley, parsnips, lettuce
;andpeas also grew exceptionally well.
iSuch plants as tomatoes, beans, cu
tcumbers, pumpkins and squashes or
tdinarily do not produce a crop, be
cause climatic conditions are not fav
«orable„
“The growing of these vegetables
-is beyond the experimental stage now
;and local stores have seeds of all the
Ihardy vegetables in stock. In 1923
tthe experiment station therefore dis
continued the distribution of all gar
den seeds but continud to send to set
ttlers such bush fruits as gooseberries,
currants and raspberries. The com
jmon bush fruits, whieh will produce
Abundantly, have been determined
a»nd the settler will be able to obtain
iinfurmation from the experiment sta
tion regarding which varieties are
jgood producers. He can readily ob
tain these varieties from nursery men
who list them in thei catalogues. The
(dissemination of such standard varie
ties, which have been developed at
HUje experiment station, will be dis
continued, because they are now eas
ily obtainable elsewhere. Experi
ments are in progress with new vari
ties, and none of these will be ready
for distribution until their value has
been determined. The dissemination
of all the common varieties is being
discontinued this year just as the dis
nomination of all the common garden
seeds were discontinued in 1923.
“The experiment station is begin
ning a new project in horticulture
this year in attempting to establish
•nd develop some varieties of tree
fruits in this section of Alaska. Sev
ral hundred trees, including apples,
puars, plums and cherries, are being
pteoted. It is planned to not only
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test these varieties for their adpta
bility in Alaska, but to breed new
varieties adapted to local climatic
conditions. Many of the different va
rieties which are now being planted
this spring originated in Siberia and
were obtained through the Bureau of
Foreign Plant Introduction, Washing
ton, D. C. It will take several years
before these hardy trees are expected
to produce fruit. As soon as hardy
fruits adapted to Alaskan conditions
i have been developed, they will be dis
’ tributed to settlers as the small bush
, fruits were distributed heretofore.”
MINNESOTA LEMON
PRODUCES $40,000,000
J VIRGINIA, Minn.—Minnesota owes
1 a debt of gratitude to a squatter who
j 38 years ago forced the State to take
| a “lemon” worth $40,0000,000 or
I more.
The squatter'.had settled on a 160
acre tract in Southern Minnesota
which was a part of the Federal Gov
i ernment’s school land grant to the
State. Officials told the State that it
would have to take instead 160 acres
j near here or nothing at ail. It was
denounced generally as a bad deal for
• the Stati;.
1 Then, in 1891, iron ore was discov
ered on the alternative tract, the Mi
i sabe Mountain mine was launched,
and the State treasury began recep
tion of the largest flow of riches from
any single source in the common
wealth.
| An inventory just completed shows
j that the “lemcn” has already paid
more than $20,000,000 in royalties
' and taxes and is only half exhausted.
! It was only necessary to go a little
below the grass roots to get at the
1 ore, and open-pit mining is possible
with rail tracks laid right into the
180-acre crater.
Down in Southern Minnesota the
tract the State thought it was being
cheated out of is now worth less than
j than $20,000.
A Soft Job! Yes?
I In his recen tbook, “Life and the
| Student,” the late Professor Charles
H. Cooley recounts an episode of his
young instructor days. He had gone
for a long walk in the country, and
caught a ride with a farmer driving
, a bobsled.
“We talked a little, and on his ask
j ing what sort of work I did I told
: him I was a teacher in the university.
He thought about this awhile, and
• then said:
“Well, I don’t blame any man for
| getting his living easy if he can do
! it”
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STANDING OF BIG LEAGUES.
I _
The following tables gives the
i standings and order of the clubs in
the National, American and Coast
Leagues, of date August 3:
National League.
Won. Lost.
: Chicago . 64 31
; Pittsburgh . 59 37
New York . 56 46
St. Louis . 51 49
Brooklyn . 43 56
Cincinnati . 41 58
Boston . 41 58
Philadelphia . 39 59
American League. .
Won. Lost.
Philadelphia . 74 25
New York . 60 35
St. Louis . 54 45
| Cleveland . 53 47
i Detroit . 47 52
| Washington . 38 57
Chicago . 39 62
Boston . 29 70
Coast League.
Won. Lost.
San Francisco . 23 9
Hollywood . 20 11
Missions . 21 12
Los Angeles . 20 13
Portland . 15 18
Oakland . 13 20
Sacramento . 11 21
Seattle . 7 26
Pet.
.673
.614
.549
.510
.434
.410
.410
.397
Pet.
.747
.610
.546
.530
.474
.400
.386
.292
Pet.
.716
.645
.636
.606
.454
.393
.343
,212
THE COST PER MILE.
Not every' owner of an automobile .
goes very deeply into the exact
science of cost accounting. He knows ,
the price of gasoline and he knows in
a general way how many miles he
may count on getting to the gallon,
but beyond that point hd is usually
vague as to what it costs him to do
his part in making traffic congestion
a natural problem.
There are, however, plenty of
mathematical geniuses to do his fig
uring for him. They have masses of
statistics to work with and well-tried
formulas to apply, and when they an- j
nounce that the aferage cost of run
ning a car is 6 1-2 cents a mile, the
car owner may be confident that
nothing important has been over
looked. He knows that the figure
includes depreciations, carrying
charges, interest on interest and all i
the other little items that modern j
business uses in its bookkeeping.
The car owner does not have.to.be!
; be satisfied with the cost index for}
the average car. He can come even
'closer to the truth. If .he has a me
dium-weight six-cylinder car, a mile
j cost shim 8.4 cents. If he is up in
the eight-cylinder class it is -a little
i more. But .a “light car of popular
! make,” although it may . he as shipy
and as nickel-plated as its more high
toned relatives, can usually ^get about
over the country for .as little .as 4
cents a mile. As this type of car usu
ally carries not fewer than four pas
sengers at a time, the per capita cost
is not distressingly high.—Ex
A Good Thing:.
| Paul Poiret, the Paris dressmaker,1
; said one day to a reporter in New
York:
“Cruel things happen sometimes in
dressmakers’ shops. In my shop a
mannequin was once displaying din
ner-gowns to .a middle-aged couple.;
The mannequin was about 19, tall and !
supple, with gorgeous.eyes. She put;
on dinner gown after dinner gown,;
and she certainly was beautiful ini
them.
“As she posed in her eighth or
i ninth gown, a rather daring creation,
the middle-aged wife nudged her hus- 1
I band and kissed:
! “ ‘George, you never look at me like
that.’ |
“ ‘Well,’ mumbled George, ‘yon
never look like that!’ ”
Girls and Marriage.
Miss Jane Addamr, the famous
head cf Hull House, recen-ly advised
her Hull House girls to marry.
“Some girls,” she said, “never I
marry because they have had no good ;
offers. But perhaps these girls are
too choicey.
“The girl,” .Miss Addams ended, ‘ (
who thinks no man is good enough j
for her may be right, but she is most
often left.” i
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