. Report of the Alaska Agricultural Experiment Stations. Fig. 1 .—Effect of Fertilizers. Fifty pounds superphosphate and 210 pounds nitrate of lime per acre on Fig. 2.—Cutting Oats for Silage, Hillside Meadow, September 10, 1913. RESTORING VEGETATION ON LAND COVERED WITH VOLCANIC ASHON KODIAK ISLAND. ALASKA AGRICULTURAL EXPEBIMENT STATIONS. 49 team and wagon. Considerable ash was carried by the streams fedby melting snow on the mountains throughout the summer, all ofwhich was carried out to sea. Streams were muddy the greater partof the summer and fall on this account, and this conditio
. Report of the Alaska Agricultural Experiment Stations. Fig. 1 .—Effect of Fertilizers. Fifty pounds superphosphate and 210 pounds nitrate of lime per acre on Fig. 2.—Cutting Oats for Silage, Hillside Meadow, September 10, 1913. RESTORING VEGETATION ON LAND COVERED WITH VOLCANIC ASHON KODIAK ISLAND. ALASKA AGRICULTURAL EXPEBIMENT STATIONS. 49 team and wagon. Considerable ash was carried by the streams fedby melting snow on the mountains throughout the summer, all ofwhich was carried out to sea. Streams were muddy the greater partof the summer and fall on this account, and this condition wroughthavoc with the salmon coming to these streams to spawn. Duringfreezing weather when there was no snow upon the ground there wasmuch shifting of the ash by the heavy winds that prevail at suchtimes, ofttimes causing great clouds of dust in the air that made itimpossible to work outdoors and very bad on eyes of man and beast,even under shelter. The work of the winter consisted mainly in caring for the livestock. The sheep and horses were kept at the station at Kodiak,where feed was shipped to them from the States, as there was nofeed available in the
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