The Cordova daily times., 1921-06-17

1 ground. The straw is rather fine and grows from 30 to 36 inches high, the heads are bearded, short and well filled. Large varieties usually require longer growing pe- riod and are more likely to be caught by early frosts.
 A large number of we'll adapted varieties of barley and oats have been introduced, or developed by cross breeding and selection of suit able hybrids at the U. s. experiment. al stations, and within two years the country will be stocked with a good supply of such seed.
 Root crops of all descriptions yield heavily and the quality is the best known. Roots for stock feed and more especially for dairy feed are recognized by dairymen of all north ern countries to be one of the prime factors in successful dairying. With good ration of roots the rough age from other farm crops may all be utilized to good advantage.
 Potatoes have been the money crop for the small farmer in the past. The market is limited. However, the po- tato with barley and peas makes an excellent feed for bacon hogs and farmers are now beginning to pro. duce pork.
 Vegetables of all hardy varieties are grown here at good profit. The family garden will do much toward the support of the family. The gar den pea is especially productive in this region, and is coming to be a farm crop with many farmers, both for forage and green manure crop for enriching the land.
 Livestock has now found it's place with the average farmer With the larger acreage under cultivation the farmers are beginning to stock up their farms for the purpose of main taining soil fertility and for the pro. duction of pork, beef and dairy prod ucts. The annual importation of these products amounts to $300,OOO up to $5oO,O00. This will give the farmers a good market for all such products for several years to come right at home. The completion of the gov ernment railway will open new mar kets, beside all that of the Yukon river and it's tributaries. Dairy farm ing is one of the big possibilities in the Tanana valley With the produc- tion of the by-products of the flour mill the concentrates or millfeed needed by the dairyman will be found on our home market. This will enable the mill to operate on closer margin and insure the farmer better price for his wheat.
 Poultry products to the extent of $6O, 900 to $125,OOO are imported from the states and sold on the Fairbanks market annually, not speaking of the importations into , the territory that should be on our market. Poultry has been raised arN maintained at profit by some of the townspeople, who have had to buy practically all the grain feed con- sumed by the poultry. The farmer raising his own grain, can compete with townspeople and be able to SUD- ply the outlying districts. The ques- tion of properly housing poultry is not beyond solution. Building ma aterial in the way of lumber is not much higher in price here in Fair banks .than in many portions of the states where poultry farming is car ried on with profit Good warm buildings with plenty of light. good ventilation and with ample room for the hen to exercise during the eight months confinement, October 1 to June 1, will insure good egg produc- tion when proper feeding is practiced.
 Available land for homesteaders within the Panama valley lies along the railroad between Fairbanks and Nenana and above Fairbanks along the Chitina- Fairbanks trail, 100 miles up the Panama valley. There are several thousand homesteads await ing young men with pluck and ener- gy and with capital enough to get necessary equipment for clearing land and implements with which to farm the land. Tractor farming Is perhaps the more economical, be- cause of the high cost of feed for horses which must remain idle sev-