Northern light., May 01, 1917, Image 4

About Northern light. (Unalakleet, Alaska) 1913-1917

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UHLiKLEETS WVR PRICE REMEDY
Mr. fraeger li.is.i little ^mleii too.
Both Nielse Uals and Peter Hals have
gtxid si ed gardens
Mr. Bahr’s garden,in otlier words
M iry’s garden, is about double its
former si :e.
Aaron has also fallen in line, for
he too has a garden this season. We
are glad to see the new gardens.
Mr. K'e uetsen’s vegetable plantation
is also some larger.! t looks good to us.
Reindeer are O K. and so are fresh
sweet vegetables right out of the dirt.
Morris Johnson’s garden is nearly
double its former size And Theodore
and Jessie’s gardens are much larger
than they were last yea* . If nothing
prevents there will be many a sweet
morsel next fall and winter to off set
flour at $12 oo per cwt
Thora, not able to use a spade,
picked up a good sized garden by
using a “root pick" That is the kind
of grit that grows turnips and taters
and such luxuries in this land of
high prices.
Samuel Anaruk, assistant teacher,
is the pri/.s winner as to size of garden
this spring. That’s light my boy,
taters at five dollats a crate and a
good market for them is better than
many of the staked claims of Alaska.
Miss Eva ro k’s garden has almost
doubled in size. It is gratifying to
see the interest taken this spring in
planting large well planned gardens.
The novelty has passed away, and
in its place is a real idea as to the val
ue of a good garden.
Pete; Bouehau, tho unsuccessful
i-. last ye r/s gardening venture, has
again fell to with pick ami spade,awl
the ground turned up speaks well
for good returns this season. There
is nothing like trying and keeping at
it until the right tiling happens.
John Fagei>trom rolled away logs
and turned up the virgin sod, set the
posts and fenced in a neat little gar
den spot. We sre hoping that the
returns will he so gartifying that an
other year he will feel like turning
the town .<p side down, and raising
vegetables on a large scale.
tlcivie! Kootok lias homesteaded a
sin d! tiact once occupied by howl
ing barking musical dogs, and a gar
den now smiles back to the observer.
We can leave Uualakieet quite sat
isfied that at least along one line
gnrdening-we have not been a failure
It lias taken time and patience and.
muscle to make it obvious to the 11a*
ti es that gardens can t>e successfully
grown, and should he grown. When
we e.une to Unalakleet there wasotie
garden resides the Mission garden.
■v> ne of the pool hearted hoys
not oily spaded up Mrs. William'sold
garden, hut enlarged it considerably.
Mrs Powers, while Mr. Powers,
was w o r k i v g in St Michael,
with the help of some of the boys
added mo-e than a third to the orig
inal girde.i. We helped a little in the
p anting and furnished some early
potatoes so that another season they
might h ivean early variety to plant,
M u inn's garden is some five times
larger than it was last year. Lasl
season we did most of the work in
Marian’s garden and much of the
work in all of the gardens,but this
year, we are glad to report that nil