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CARL 15 CARD FEEDERS
WATER FOUNTAINS
BROODER ELEMENTS
STARTING MASH
OPENED
TO HOME STEP LING
j^dretary Krug has issued a public land or
der opening 1,363.57 acres in the Kenai
Krsilof area to settlement under the home
stead and small tract lavs, effective lipril
13.
Ninety-day preference from Anril 13 to July
13 rill be accorded veterans of ' orld "ar
II. .applications for the land, rhich are
thus restored from a public land order rith
drarnl, are to be filed in the District
L'nd Office at Anchorage and inquiries
should be addressed to that office.
TO STOP DAMPING-OFF
DJI TING- OFF is one of the most discouraging
fungus diseases rith rhich gardeners have
to contend rhen getting seedlings storoed
for the garden. Specialists tell us tnat
chemically treated rater rill prevent a
lot of this trouble. One ounce cf copper
dust (yellor cuprocide, or copper A or
C.O.C.S.), nixed rith three gallons of
rater, rill stop the ravages of the di
sease on almost .any of the Common vegetables
oxcopt cabbage, caulifloror, broccoli and
kale.
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a drench of semeson, nixed in tho same
proportion, rill stop damping-off.
Storilizod soil for the sood flats trill
effectually prevent domping-off, but thor
ough sterilization, especially fbr large
areas of soil, requiro special eouipment
and is not practical for the average farm
garden.
F.S.LEE USES MOSS
F.S. Leo reports that he has had the best
luck with snail plants by starting them in
moss which he collects from the Eklutna
flats. (One probably can get it fran any
boggy region.) Hr. Leo uses the noss just
as ho gets it without the addition of soil
and plants his seeds in'it, TThon they are
abent an inch in height, he transplants
them to the greenhouse or hot beds where
they remain until ready for the garden. He
said that before he tried this method ho
had a great deal of trouble with damping
off, but last year he never lost a plant
that way when using the moss.
He also said that he found that moss mixed
with soil in his strawbrerry bed'did won :,ors
in helping to hold tho moisture, and pro
duced same really healthy looking plm'.s.,
VISITORS E ROM KEN A!
Dale Rorrison was in the Valley this la a;
week visiting his parents and sister*. Ja> *
works for the Road Commission near Ker ... 4
il.fr* 'and Mrs* Oliver Orlika :md family
in the V Hey'this week visiting frierd-j
and relatives. The Onkkas are making
their home at Konai now where Oliver is
employed by the IRC. They came up by plas .
to visit with George Bouwens, Idrs.Onkka" .«
brother'., who just returnod from England..-, .