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leaving Seward for Cook Inlet, Uiamna, Kenai and other
ports: Aug. 4, 13, 25; Sept. 8, 22; Oct. 6, 20.
Capt. Heinie Berger Seward, Alaska
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The Alaska Railroad
(Mr. McKinley Park Route)
TRAINS ARRIVE TRAINS DEPART
Each Thursday 6:30 p. m. Each Friday 9:00 a. m. Mc
Kinley Park and way points.
Each Friday 6:30 p. m. Each Saturday 7:30 a. m. Fair
banks and way points.
Mixed train from Anchorage and intermediate points ar
rives each Wednesday p. m.
Mixed train for Anchorage and intermediate point's leaves
not earlier than 10:00 a. m. each Saturday.
Mixed train carries a coach and handles passengers.
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Fly With the Mail on Weekly Schedule
To All Interior Points
It is to your advantage to make arrangements for trip
after seeing our pilots:
JOE CROSSON MATT A. NIEMINEN
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Anchorage, Alaska
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COMPANY
Chas. A. Jansen, Agent
Phone Madison 139 Seward, Alaska
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ALEUTIAN .Aug. 8 Aug. 14 9 p. m.
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Denali sails July 10
R. A. Hall, Acting Agent
PHONE MAIN 125
Alaska Steamship Co.
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MANY SEWARD GARDENERS
HAVE COMPLAINED,
PROBLEM
For the benefit of root famers
and others interested in Alaska
Agriculture, the following article
on “Root Maggot Control” by Pro
fessor George W. Gasser, Alaska
Agricultural College and School of
! Mines, cooperating with the U. S. j
j Department of Agriculture, is pub
lished verbatim:
Description of Insects
Root maggots are the larva of j
t a small, two-winged fly, one quar
ter inch long, or about half the
size of a common house fly. The
| fly of the cabbage maggot (hyle-j
myia brassica) is light gray with'
black stripes above and between!
the wings. The fly of the onion j
maggot (hylemyia Antigua) is sim- j
ilar in size and color ot the Cab- !
bage maggot. The maggots of!
both species are white and foot- •
less and when full grown about:
one-third inch in length.
How Infestation Occurs
The adult female deposits the'
eggs on the plant near, or at the 1
surface of the ground, or some
times on particles of earth where
the stalk of the plant enters the
ground. They may readily be seen
as small white masses, containing I
20 to 50 eggs each and about one
twenty-fifth of an inch long. The
eggs hatch in from four to seven
days and the young larva, or mag
got, immediately crawls downward
on the stalk of the plant and be
gins to feed and burrow into the
'tissues. From four to six weeks
I elapse from the date of incubation
; to the emergence of the adult fly.
;The number of generations per
, season and the manner of win
tering has not been determined fro
Alaska but it is quite certain that
: there are at least two broods and
'that the pupa is the over-wunter
stage.
i
Crops Affected
All members of the mustard
family are more or less attacked
by the cabbage maggot. Cabbage,:
cauliflower, radish, and turnip are ’
the four crops commonly grown in
Alaska that need protection. The
onion maggot, so far as observa
tions in Alaska show, attacks
onions only.
Preventive Measures
Clean culture, removal or burial I
of plant remains, such as wormy j
cabbage stalks and wormy roots,
will undoubtedly help reduce the
extent of infestation if done per- ,
sistently. Spading or plowing the j
garden deeply in the fall, being!
careful to completely bury all!
trash and plant residues is also |
good practice. The above meas-1
ures are helpful to the isolated]
garden only. Where there are I
adjoining unkempt gardens there!
would be little advantage since j
obviously the flies readily pass
from one nearby garden to an
other.
Beds of plant sets and radish
may be screened to keep out the
flies, but generally this involves
too much careful to win much
success.
Many devices have been used,
such as tarred paper discs placed
around the stem of the cabbage
plant; also many chemicals have
been tried with varying degrees
of success. Interplanting of some
catch crop such as radish in the
cabbage rows and then destroying
the radish that are infested will j
at times reduce the injury to the !
cabbage. Cauliflower set among •
cabbage will prevent injury to the ,
latter, but such method is too ex- J
pensive for general practice. In j
onion maggot control some success ■
has resulted in the use of a poi
son bait for flies, made of the
following mixture which is sprayed
or sprinkled on the plants once j
or twice a week: •
One-fifth ounce sodium arsen
aet, tw'o gallons water, one pint
molasses. j
Effective Control
Of late years corrosive sublimate
(mercuric chloride) has become
jthe standard remedy. This poison,
jin the form of a white crystalline
, powder, may be purchased at most
drug stores. To prepare the solu
tion, dissolve one ounce in a small
amount of hot water. Use wood,
stoneware or glass vessel only.
Then dilute with cold water to 10
gallons—never less than eight. Por
cabbage and cauliflower apply one
half teacupful of the solution to
each plant. If a slight depression
is made around the stalk less of
the liquid will be wasted. The ob
ject is to soak the ground imme
diately surrounding the plant. No
injury will be done to the plant,
but the maggot feeding on the
poisoned tissues will be killed.
To treat radish or turnip use
a can with a spout and pour the
liquid slowly along the row. Hold
the spout close to the ground so
as not to wet the foliage.
When to Apply
I At least two applications are
j necessary with the radish, the first
l just before the roots begin to swell
| and the second a week later
i Sometimes a third will be neces
i
sary if the crop is slow in matur
ing.
Cabbage should be treated with
in a few days after transplanting;
to hte garden and again in a
week or 10 days. In either case
first treatment may be withheld
if a careful observation fails to
detect the presence of flies or
eggs.
Caution
Corrosive sublimate is a violent
poison. It should be handled with
extreme care. The solution should
be kept covered or better still, in
closed containers and away from
children and animals. The best
way is to make up only the amount
that is needed at once, thus leav
ing none to be put away and for
gotten.
Antidote
Induce vomiting. Give white of
eggs or milk.
When the proposed worts on the
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finished one of the runways will
be 2300 feet long and the other
3,000 feet, says the News-Miner.
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