The weekly Alaska citizen., 1919-12-01


 No. 1 to No. 2 Northern Ha troduced here several years as the Tanana Valley Har' careful selection. It has p region.
 The tests to which MT. Snodgrass referred were made by the bureau of chemistry of the department of agriculture. After making the actual qualitative test, the bureau wrote MT. Georgeson letter giving the results, the communication being printed in full below The mill manufacturing the flour, about which inquiry ,is made, is a small ante-dated affair now in use at the government farm. The letter follows:
 OFFICIAL TEST
 Washington, July 8, 1919. Plant Chemical Laboratory
 MT. Walter H. Evans,
 States Relations Service. Dear MT. Evans:
 Referring to your letter of June 17, at which time you sent us sample of graham flour from Dr. Georgeson oi the Alaska Experiment Station, the following results are submitted in reply:
 Graham Flour water .1l.62T0 ASH l.of Nitrogen ..---....-.. Z.41 Absorption .6O.UO Max Expansion ....-........ .62.00
 Standard Flour ApSoIptlou eco. .------. ..-. .OO.4VT0 Max. Expansion ....-........... $500
 Graham Bread volume ...l4 4-SX11" 1eAtuTe ....... ...--..St Elasticity .-....98
 Standard Bread VOiume ...15 1-oXll 0-o 1eAlure 50 Elasticity .....-..........98
 Measurements over the top in two directions.
 am also sending you photo graph of the two breads made from the Hours whose analysis are given above. From the analysis and from the photograph you can see that this flour makes a very good loaf of bread; in fact it is one of the best whole wheat or gpaham flour breads are interested in knowing just what kind of a mill was used in making this flour. According to our ex- |. perience in milling the kind of mill that is used in making graham flour has much to do with the quality of bread that can be made from such flour, and therefore we would ap- preciate your telling us as soon as you can find out just what kind of a mill was used and who are the manufacturers.
 Respectfully,
 (Signed) J. 4. LeCLERC. Chemist in Charge, Lab. Plant Chem istry.
 OUTLOOK ENCOURAGING
 Commenting on the general farm ing industry of the Panama Valley re- zion to a representative of The Citi- zen, MT. Snodgrass said: That the agricultural possibilities of the Fair banks region will play an important part in the future history of the country is evidenced by the results obtained by the local farmers during the past season. While full report is not at hand, what may be expect ed from them is indicated from the eleven reports that have been receiv- ed to date.
 "Of this number ten raised wheat in tracts ranging from one to eight acres. These ten harvested 41,800 pounds, or 698 bushels from 40 acres, giving an average yield of 17.4 bush els per acre. Six of these farmers grew oats for grain, having planted fl acres that threshed out 1481 bush els, averaging 36 bushels per acre Nine of them also raised grain hay having 251 acres in this crop which gave yield of 239 tons, making an average yield of .95 ton per acre Ten also report potatoes; 77 acres of which gave yield of 194 tons of marketable tubers. averaging two and one-half tons per acre.
 There are 22 farmers in the i'm. mediate vicinity. in addition to those reporting. who have not reported yields or acreage in grain that are known to have grown grain crops this season. A few of those have not been able to thrash their grair