The daily morning Alaskan., 1901-07-28
FARMING NOT A DREAM


 tb. ..mtr, they seldom even take th, ,r.ab,, %. h>ew,me thcir n,r,lu1'. ry The, come prepared ior ,t'r'.H .b.u, .a,i,r,. tccbcrss. ,idc.hill bears silent ou,, and Vicrd wonder, oi r,er Jc,crptou They win sohcrN .ual.oI Br,tou mrag cor 50 story abou, ,,a ,o0 but plain truth, r.t au,c t, cabbage. or potatoes. orc r,.
 arI,J .u tbe H-tt oi huge jokes
 \ most pertinent reply va> how g,,-. made by a tourist on onc %, in' ocean steamers. when thc assertion ua, made that many kinds %. vcgcta bre, could be grown Go perfection n N..kl -WN don't you raise thm tben" ,l,d che tourist The reasons are ub,.ou- The opportunities io' making money more rapidly m other channel, al,. been too numerous. Re .grre,, uat vegetable, from thc south ba,, brought price, at umc
 bat would seem almost prohihuNc. even m mining community thc, could u.t be pr.dtaby grown when labor ranged from $ per day and up alrI In tte carly jly, m Ca'i.or u.l tu. ma-s,. na, almost devoid 1. re.bt.e.taHI., ..r a number oi years. and .,rar.. a. 10 may appear tolay a Ua, ..r.ury beHc,eJ u thc ear> 6uc- th.t the Golden State Was. ou, side o. -raHut am aeru.uuIN n pr.u.u.. country lu Eastern Ore -uu arJ Washington 1urul thc palm, day, .. tr,, cattle industry, auchmeu win. owned COWS us tbc hundred, u..I ..uI.r-.I mIN unI eat butter tnar u.- shipped from ,hc cast rho lII th.- .at .l economy Time ou th, rau-c m ,bo-e days ua, tao ,a.mh,, ,o be employed m making butter at from -s Q, sa cents pound Nothme could be made a. pay -1 vcI a- bc,i mutton .u1 e..I under ,bc conditions ,h,r .>-,r- m a country that now u.f. .m.- b, ,he fleet ath uuu
 m. uI dairy products Kitchen .rI.rna t.. I.,H ,u..e--u'h carrie. .u ,Hr.a.H.u, Na-sa .ur man., .,ar. .aI for oh. p.-. tnr.. season, u. r. N.ual co. Ssl.aa, ha, given puc u.aI demonstration ot ,lc baud,om. p-.a,- %. market -3rlenus ou l.u. canal Southeastern Alaska |, ie. south .. tHc H0r'I. uouhemo-t a- r.awu. l.r l,. conditions. hoV .,.r .-. peculiar and ,hc application o. conventional aereu.turc might u.. be ,uec.,,Iu. Ite area, ot iriah. mI are small and ,heir cultivation mr., therefore be intensive Farming mus, le ta.r.ueh HI tbe lromI k it moist during ta. u.t summer 11 Plant n.e rh,t !, not indigenous, mu ls. animal HIe. be accImatcI and t may therefore take year. %. seed pr1 neau.n he.ur. many Nuj, o, gram. .r te-eab',. con bc proiuccl Q. perfection
 ,u Norway pnut... ,hat arc w. ua'cI mammoth carrots. be,t,. ma b..a, aaI par,np- probd, crop, ,I peas. re blr'e, aal hls a, Vel ,. many .uI, %. berries ar. grown vah | u ,l. arctic circle Nt North Cap th, forage grow, ,gr, u>aran,b many yar,ue. oi ea,es- au3iuI a height co. -r> and eight feet Wheat !, teu successfully raised u Norway up ta parallel ot And it may al,, b. .a.I that crop failure, are practically unknown iu che .ar north oi Europs
 10 Was Jim Ibu ,Nl1 predicted aha ,bc RcI River country would prolH,. hu million lu-t,'. uI wheat. and .. green m th. memory of all inter ,-t.j m aer.u.ur. how ihc prc,. udsa,eI Mr. uH. practical and con .eva..,e estimate That tbc Red Ri, CT now rr.du..I .ooooo bushels oi grain and cha, thc Great American D-.ert oi a generation ago. |. thc,c garden oi thc Nor,L ,h"ull ..e an ob- Iee, lesson u estimating tl- value O. ,H. immense Nusou ,a.'.y. ot which a prominent EneH.b shareholder in che " ?. NY. Ky Co predict, a future grain output ol 5oooooooo bushels A- wild grauberrc, grow ,o prohical b u Alaska lt |, not unreasonable Go b,H.,, tbat tb, pactic Coast and th, Orient VIL u uot very many years consume th, thousand, oi barrel, oi crsubcrri,, ,hlt come down from jhy mountain swamp, oi thi, country n stead of loos.n. ,o Michigan and Ni.. cou,u ior Thanksgiving and Christ ma. sauce Alaska may also furnish tbr coast state, vth unrya'l,l straw bcrric, during che month, oi August and Septcmber-long before the sea son iu the south has past
 While obu,e tourists are huncims