Report of the Alaska Agricultural Experiment Stations . palatable and free fromdust. It forms the chief covering of the hillsides and also occurs inparks among the timber at the heads of bays. With the exceptionof the small amount of grain hay grown at Kodiak this station dependsentirely upon bluetop for dry fodder. All native hay is cut in theparks among the cottonwoods at the head of Kalsin Bay. When the grass is in the right stage (about half in bloom) it is cutand allowed to lie in the swath until after the dew disappears thenext day. It is then raked into windrows with the side-deliveryra
Report of the Alaska Agricultural Experiment Stations . palatable and free fromdust. It forms the chief covering of the hillsides and also occurs inparks among the timber at the heads of bays. With the exceptionof the small amount of grain hay grown at Kodiak this station dependsentirely upon bluetop for dry fodder. All native hay is cut in theparks among the cottonwoods at the head of Kalsin Bay. When the grass is in the right stage (about half in bloom) it is cutand allowed to lie in the swath until after the dew disappears thenext day. It is then raked into windrows with the side-deliveryrake and allowed to cure, or if it is on land where the hay loader cannot be used to advantage-it is cocked and allowed to cure in the is then stacked in the field or hauled to the hay shed, dependingupon the condition of the next batch of hay. When the teams go tothe barn in the evening they each take a load of hay which is coveredwith a tarpaulin and unloaded next morning while the dew is drying Rpt. Alaska Agr. Expt. Stations, 1918. Plate Fig. 2.—Crossbred Galloway-Holstein Calves, Kodiak Station. KODIAK LIVE-STOCK AND BREEDING STATION. 89 off the hay in the field. During those periods in the fall and winterwhen the water is not too rough such hay as is needed at Kodiakis loaded upon the skiff and towed there by the station launch. CATTLE. Tuberculin test.—A veterinarian, Dr. Karl M. Oliver, of the Seattle •office of the Bureau of Animal Industr}^ United States Departmentof Agriculture, arrived in Kodiak early in September to make annualtest of the cattle for tuberculosis. In the Kodiak herd two reacted,Carnot of Kodiak (PI. X, fig. 1), was butchered and the meat destroyedand a Holstein cow, Grandview Fayne, which with her calf wastransferred to Kalsin Bay. Of the nine yearling calves raised fromthe tubercular cows at the bay all passed the test. The calves wereraised by a modification of the Bang method as described in a pre-vious report. Later in the month
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