N O RT HER NEIGH T*"
Published monthly by the Unalnkleet
Eskimo School [/—
Unalakleet Alaska
E E Van Ness..Editor
One Dollar per year
EDITORIAL
Many of the teache s are careful
enough to make use of the garden
seed sent by the department of agri
cultureand thereby have choke gar
den stuff fresh from the soil.
Thereisuo re ison why every teach
er south of parallel 65 and perhaps
farther north might not help natives
to a belter diet and at the si me time
laden their own tables with choice
vegetables.
Of course the soil may not be just
right but if the “grit’’ is O K. the
soil can be made suitable.
We know of o. e teacher who
wheeled scores of wheel harrow loads
of rich soil to the residence The re
sult isa fine garden i:i the right place.
Cabbage and celery seed we sow
in boxes the latter part of April, and
transplant to the open ground when
conditions are suitable. The cabbage
do not form real solid heads but all the
leaves are juicy and tender therefore
it does not matter. I,ate in the fall we
puli them and hangthemby the roots
where they will k cep frozen for winter
use. At this writing we have some
left. As the celery grows we keep
drawing the soil toit.vvhi-fh blenches
it to a pe ilrly white and with a crisp
ness and flavor not s.r. passed by me
cc d anted Kalama/o celery. Turnips,
Kohlrabi, and lettuce can not he he~c
e'i. Potatoes develop sufficiently to
furnish our seed for the next year.
For frying- we have never seen po
tatoes equal to the Al’.sk i grown.
All that is necessary to have a gar
den is a wheelbarrow and a little ' g. it*
it doesn’t matter about the soil
VESTILATiON
The important question is; Howto
ventilate our roomstchur*. hes,school
rooms and living rooms. As before
stated the most of them \ve:c co
structed with but one view-warmth.
To ve.iti; .le thruuu open window
subjects some one to di.xn i drafts.
The system we have i:r,tailed here,
for both reside.ice and school room,is
quite i: expensive sinq !e ai d \e.v
s .ci t iorv.
Oct of stove pipe we constmcted
a 1 intake pipe, from pure out side
air, Ve eath the floor. Close to the
b-.ck oi the stove, asclose as possible,
we made an opening thru the floor
and run the intake pipe up alongside
the stove pipe to within a few inches
of the ceiling. The heat of the stove
cap.aiding the air within the pipe
does two things; treats an upward
flow which has to be supplied from the
oatsi’e. and heats to quite an extent
the fresh air corning into the room.
If the windows are very tight,an
outlet should he made near the floor
wi ll . i cibow.and pipe running up
the w..il on the outside.or between
the wall. This system does the three
neeassary thiags:-supplies the room
with pure air,forces out the cool im
pure floor air and does away with all
drafts.
We are dreaming of the coming
of the above.