The daily Alaskan., 1914-07-15
AND YUKON CAN BE MADE
 BIG PRODUCERS
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the continent, and to every part of the earth. Yukon has here a mighty stream affording an outlet to the sea with the current and ether large streams are Natures j highways to the ocean. The Ameri- can government railway and other Hines are being opened, and will afford transportation everywhere. . These vast valleys, unpeOpled and still today, should thrive in time with husbaudry and industry.
 'I should not draw the line on .anbtious for this country in the growing of root crops, but believe fruit also can be introduced. I should recommend the Siberian app,0 for experiment. The apple usually is grac5ed on members of the rose family. but l find nothing growing here to which the apple could be -raf.ed successfully. Apples grow in the northern states and in parts of Canada where the winters are "s bite. if not quite as long as here. The frost should not hurt the trees here. Nature will take care of them. The thing is to get the apple suited to the country I think any Of the big nurseries or seed . houses of Canada should be able to supply those of the Yukon who are interested. and I should be much .rleasod to see the experiment made .. once.
 70. course the raspberry, the blue .a.ry and the currant thrive here, and are found in abundance. I understand strawberries also are growing wild in parts of Yukon val -.v We have some of the Alas .ru berry plants at our headQuar- .eus. where wo have been exDeri- meu.tug with them for some time, and we may get good results.
 ~O.acr tree or plant productions 9ay be possible from experiments ar crossings of our southern plants with inc northern. something not thought of now may be introduced .nd grown here successfully even .ualy While the ordinary beets do ...r in tIasIza and Yukon, l have TO hopes of the sugar beets being . success here for the reason the .... beet must remain in the
 ound l long time gradually absorb jig ra.. for many weeks. The growth here is rapid and not sui
 .enuy prolonged.
 "Ia bringing out the plants or crops best adapted to this country, and in breeding animals, I believe in following the principle of striv- ing for the very best, Never be satisfied with well enough. Never be content to sit down and let it .. rg. 8 makcsbift. Struggle to make tho most excellent article conceiv- .Gg and possible. It is only by nuleriu- to such principles that we lave been able to achieve success .r our rlaut breeding. The results .ra the result of work, and the work with us is chiefly thinking. We must learn mora than already known or We do not advance. Per fee. specimens in plant and other lie are rare. l always have prac- GceI the system of elimination of the defective and the unfit I do not save one plant out of a thous- and. yes. not more than one out gE ten thousand when striving for . excellence and new results.
 "Witl such a rule in mind l should eudeayor here to grow Do- ..to which would be adapted to this country. which would become the great commercial asset of the North land which would be the article to ship to all parts of the continent. The United States already is find ing it's potato lands inadequate. The thousands of miles of potato lands o. this vast North may yet be the supply fieId-tbe greqt potato bin or America. Why not? The soil and the valleys arc here. ADplica- .tou will get the results,
 You ask me why, if I cannot spend my time in the North, should .I not send someone competent as substitute. l say intelligent peo- lie casting their lot in this coun- try can get the results, but re- g.et I am not young, and cannot come 10 remain a few years to help reclaim and annex the Coun- try commercially to the world.
 s'Vcs, I do not believe so much in the certain experimental station work and Agricultural tests made many fail to get down to the simple rudtmenrs, and to work from the ground up. We cannot be in every institution, but we have dozens of chairs cu plant life and plant breed ing already in universities of the world. with the number increasing,
 IT sGaII be satisfied aif I can see the world get the benefits of the best brains on such lines. The eX-