The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1910-08-12

be another sign that Hitchcock is no
longer the big authority on politics
he used to be in the Cabinet.
However. there may be another ex-
planation Of all this. 1t may mere
ly mean that the Postmaster General
is preparing to wander down to Ari-
iona and establish a residence in the
soon-to-becOme-a state so that the
grateful people there may send him to
the United States Senate. Mr.. Hitch
cock is said to have helped consider
ably to get the statehood bill passed.
He has often gone to New Mexico
and Arizona on hunting and vacation
trips, and it is understood that he
would be willing to be chosen Sena-
tor from one of the prospective states.
FARMING IN ALASKA.
Since the Department of Agriculture
first took up the question of farming
in Alaska there has been a great dec
of interest manifested in that subject
and it must be confessed, some scep-
ticism. However, the Department is
now in a position to give out some dc
finite information regarding this sub
ject in the Annual Report of the Alas
ka Agricultural Experiment Stations
for 1909, which is for sale by the Su-
.ft,fA Of IlnntarnAnf- EnUnrn-
ment Printing Office.
Would you care to run truck
farm with Strawberries selling at s1.2
to $500 a quart" asks the Depart
ment in a bulletin announcing the
publication of the report, 'cucumbers
81 to s. dozen, celery so cents each,
tomatoes SO cents to 81 pound, and
other products at proportionate prices!
Or would you prefer general farming
with few pigs and chickens as side
line, with hay selling at $50 to 800
ton, hogs 80 cents pound. young
pigs IS cents a pound, and eggs 81 a
dozen? These prices are received in
Alaska under favorable market con-
dtions
There are several successful farmers
at Fairbanks. The climate shows a
wide variation. The coast towns are
mild for that region, neither Sitka
nor Kodiak reaching zero during 1909
while Juneau only reached degrees
below in January with a daily mean
for the month of l4-515."
ASTRONOMERS TO CONVENE.
The International Union for Co.
operation in Solar Research will con-
vene in its fourth session August 30
at Mount Wilson, California. Forty
astronomers and physicists from Eu-
rope have signified their intention of
being present. There will also be a
large number of American astronomer
there. The forty from abroad will
leave Boston August 20 under the Dir
rection of the Astronomical and Astro
phical Society of America, and will
go to Chicago via Niagara Falls to see
the Yerkes observatory. Thence they
will go to Flagstaff. Ariz., to see the
famous Lowell observatory, and from
there they will proceed to Pasadena,
which is at the foot of the mountain
where they are to hold their sessions
1t is stated that this promises to be
one CT the most notable gatherings
of scientists that has been held in
this country in the past quarter of a
century. From a scientific standpoint
1t is unquestior ably of great signi-
ficance. and the public will await re-
suits with more or less anxiety.
SAVING LUMBER.
Everyone who has ever used lumber
even In a limited way. knows that II
always comes in even lengths.-that
Is twelve feet. fourteen feet, sixteen
feet long. and so forth. 1t has never
been possible to go to a lumber yard
and buy thirteen foot board, or one
IL feet long. II you wanted one IL