The Alaska daily empire., 1919-07-12
Prof. C. c. Jorgenson Has Arranged for Securing Yak For Experimental
 Purposes in Alaska
HERE FROM WESTWARD
Inspected the Kodiak Sta ton and Says That the Government Animals
 Are in Good Shape

Bringing word of the success ot the government experiment station at Kodiak and Matanusza and infor nation regarding his plans to intro duce the Yak in Alaska and so estab fish harder breed of cattle for set lers in the cold Interior, Dr. C. C Georgeson, special agent of the De partment of Agriculture in Alaska arrived in Juneau today on the Ad miral Watson.
 Everything was in fine shape il Kodiak, and I was greatly relieved tC find conditions as satisfactory a; they are," Dr. Georgeson said this afternoon.
 "We had little trouble at the sta ion in Kodiak, but through the di rection of w. T. White, who was for mcrly assistant superintendent of tho Fairbanks station and who has hat charge at Kodiak since the middle O April, the work has been strengthened out satisfactorily.
 q have left direction for them tt go to work at once to build a sani tary cattle barn. The plans art ready and a building superintendent has been engaged to do the work Arrangements have also been madt for considerable area of land ol which to grow feed for the cattle.
 "The cattle themselves were do ing fine In fact things there could not be better.
 By appointment met F. E. Reder superintendent of the Matanuski station at Anchorage. as I did no have time to visit the station then He continued with me on the Admira Watson to Kodiak and back t' Seward. We had a long conference and made arrangements for the i'm mediate erection of sanitary barr at Matanuska
 q have shipped 51 ,000 feet of lum Der to be divided between the tw' 5tations, and other supplies for th' erection of the new cattle barns They will be of the most modern ant sanitary type. There will be- no woo' work inside except the windows anC doors. The floors will be of cemen and the stanchions and stalls of iron so there will be no place for germ: .o gather.
 "A man has also been secured tC 'ook out primarily for the health O. he government herd of cattle ans to also cooperate with the farmers
 throughout the Territory. We plaf m sending him to test and examine
 he ivestock-cattle, sheep, horsei and pigs-and hope that he will as sist in keeping the animals of the
 ettlers in good health and prevent
 he spread among livestock of con 'agious diseases.
 "The season was late, very late here in the coast regions and alsF in Matanuska, but on the contrary n the Interior The Fairbanks ant Rampant cops were seeded a weet earlier than the average and at pres ont there are excellent prospects fo1 fine crops.
 In May I went to Banff in Canada end made arrangements with the su perintendent of the Dominion Ma tional Park, who makes his headquar ters there. to secure four to eigh head of Yak and I have succeeded in securing the approval of the Sec rotary of Agriculture for the purchase 9f the Yak. It has now been referred 70 the Dominion government at Ot .awa, and as soon as the deed # closed they will be shipped to Feli banks with a view to test them 1T he cold Interior climate. They arc hardier than the common cattle and are the domestic OK of the mountain ous sections of Asia. particularly Thibet and Mongolia. A hardy OK they are used for the same purposes there as the common cattle here.
 My idea is to cross them with the Galloway cattle we have at Ko diak and to attempt to establish a breed hardier than the common cattle and better suited to the Interior climate"
 Dr. Georgeson will remain in Ju neau until he can secure a boat to his home in Sitka After attending to business there he will leave for the Interior by way of the Yukon