The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1914-05-09

Alaska is stili dreary expanse OF
frlgid wastes. with bleak. towering
mountains and coast lined with
glaciers.
Get Bad Jolt.
Tourists with these notions cx-
perience peculiar sensations when
they step ashore at one OF the
Alaskan ports on a bright day In
summer and find themselves amid
grass and flowers. with birds sing
INK and an enterprising hiddy ex.
claiming over the wonder OF new
laid egg
The hum Of mower progressing
through a field OF iuxuriant alfalfa
may also be heard
Thriving gardens surround snug
looking homes and here and there
the man with the hoe wages war.
fare with weeds.
Slow But Steady.
Modest little farms. hevn from
the Alaska forest. but stiil cling.
ing 10 the towns. afford another
rebuke To the doubling tourist with
their array OF vegetables. varieties
OF berries and exhibits OF grain.
The development OF farming In
Alaska since the days OF the klon-
dixie rush has not been rapid, but
IL has been steady and highly sat.
isfactory and the future promises
much
Government experiment stations
at Sitka. Fairbanks. Rampant and
Kodiak have opened the worlds
0 h..
may be made 20 produce. Once thu
settlers are attracted In sufficient
numbers. And IL Is believed the
new railroad viii supply the I'm.
petus
Yurl YUM
Long healthy-looking rows OF
good old Irish potatoes. luxuriant.
heavily-laden raspberry bushes,
supplemented with radishes. tur-
nips. kale. mustard. lettuce. car
rots parsnips. parsley. peas, cress.
cabbage. caullflower. onions. spin
ach. beets. rhubarb-ail thriving
may be seen any summer now In
Alaska and II IL a sight not cal
culated TO discourage the home
seeker. especially when consumers
are GAErT lUT the harvest HIttto
that seem impossible
Read what this Fairbanks farmer
says In 4 letter to Hon. James
Wickersham. II IS hard for out
slders TO realize that the prices
named are really paid. The letter
Is typical OF scores of others from
Alaskas agricultural regions:
My Dear Judge. In answer to
your suggestion that I write sou a
letter about my farming operations.
I take pleasure In doing 50. when
you and Mr.. Josiin were at my place
y last fall | had not begun TO take In
my crops. but since then ] have done
80.
Z yielded me is tons. and the market
price was si2O per ton, for which I
sold most OF them.
had one acre OF beets upon which
i had a crop OF tons. acres OF
carrots which yielded me y tons.
with a market price Of $40 per ton.
one acre OF turnipH from which I
gathered 200 sacks 81 80 pounds to
the sack. or tons. at $50 per ton
had "a tons Of rutabngas upon
one-fourfh of an acre Of ground. for
which the market price was sie0 per
ton. had l ton OF red bcets on one
quarter Of an acre OF ground. at
sac per ton | had rs acres Of bar
had . y tons which | sold for SIS
per ton. and still have enough left
TO fill by barn chuck fun for my
own use for the winter,
raised two tons Of cahhanes
which put away for the winter. be-
sides which 7 sold between q = and
tons during the summer at an
average selling price OF $40 per ton.
! raised 20 sucking pigs. also 1 2
pigs which weighed about 100 pounds
each. and 20 big hogs. ! sold OF
my hogs TO the butcher for $50 each.
This fall ! put In 5 acres of win
the second week In August. and be-
fore the snow came In October the
wheat was up 2 or inches high,
and never saw "a better stand OF
wheat anywhere.
have raised good winter wheat
harley and ests. and all Kind. ri
garden vegetables. and In my judy
menf Ne a farmer of more than ~
years experience the Tansns valley
IL first class agricultural country.
My farm Is near the river, and Is
made up Of sediment and silt and
sand brought down By the river In
ages gone by. THE TANANA VAL
LEY OPPOSITE MY FARM ~ 81
PROBABLY 5000. 900 ACRES or As
GOOD GROUND AZ MINE IN THIS
VICINITY ! know from six years
experience on this farm that farm
ing can be made entirely successful
and that this valley can be made 20
produce everything which can be
raised In Minnesota and the Dakotas
and there IN no valley In the north
so wide and rich and variable for
agricultural purposes as the Tanana
valley.
I have several reighbors irnned
lately around the town OF Fairbanks
Mn1 are emgaged In sncceasful farm.