Download or read book Annual Report of Alaska Agricultural Experiment Stations for 1913 (Classic Reprint) written by United States Department Of Agriculture and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-28 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Annual Report of Alaska Agricultural Experiment Stations for 1913 Several hundred new seedlings were raised and set out. Many of these will probably be lost during the winter by the heaving of the soil, due to frost. It never is cold enough to injure the plants directly. They are extremely hardy, measured by their ability to stand low temperatures; but the winter climate is nevertheless trying, to all young plants. The spongy soil absorbs and holds much mois ture, freezmg ra1ses the crust and tears the roots of the plants, and when thawing weather again causes the soil to settle the plants are left loose and partly raised from the ground, and with repeated freezings and thawings by Spring they are left on the surface dead. This condition has been partly remedied by covering the plants with spruce boughs to keep the ground from thawing, but it is only partly\ successful. Large plants do not suffer from this cause to the same degree as do the smalle1 ones. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.