The Wrangell sentinel., 1930-06-12
RADIO SPEECH
 BY FLORY HAS
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taken annually the worlds largest catch or salmon, while her rivers ana streams teem with trout and greyiing.
 1t is a land of gigantic beauty to lure and fascinate with its mIgnly glaciers that tumble into Ghe sea: mountains that seem to pierce the sky; the deep blue wa ters oI the famous Inside Passage: it's sunsets; it's northern lights: and it's gorgeously brilliant wild flowers abounding everywhere in astonishing profusion.
 And yet we find grain fields and vegetable gardens; dairies and live stock; schools and churches; paved streets and automobiles; happy homes and healthy, rosy checked kiddies. Here we find the worlds farthest north Agricultural College and School of Mines, located at Fair banks, within 100 miles of the Arc tic Circle. That is the Alaska of today.
 Its development from an indus trial standpoint is now we'll under way in it's fisheries, mining, lumber ing and fur. A start is being made in agriculture, controlled fur farm ing and in growing reindeer. It is becoming the mecca for an ever increasing tourist travel.
 ''If you will open your geograph1es you will see that three-fourths of Alaska lies within the north temp crate zone and in the same latitude as Scotland, Norway and Sweden. Only one-fourth of it extends be- yond the Arctic Circle. It should not be surprising, therefore, to find many of the agricultural crops, in cluding. livestock, suitable to these northern latitudes, growing in the Territory.
 "The exceptionally long days of continuous light during the summer months has a deep significance for agriculture in our northern lands. The result is to produce an astonish- ingly rapid growth, tenderness aud freshness in quality that for such crops as lettuce, celery, cabbage, etc, can not be approached else where. This is why spring wheat will head within 50 days from plant ing and be ready for harvest within 90 to 100 days, with an average yield of 25 to 40 bushels per acre, while oats will ripen within 95 to 105 days, yielding 35 to 90 bushels per acre Peas grow six to e'ght feet in height and yield 20 to 30 bushels to the acre. Potatoes are a dependable cash crop in many locali- ties and are equal in quality and yield to those produced in the fla nous Yakima valley of Washington state. Berries grow and produce in l
 greatest profusion.
 ''The United States Department of Agriculture has estimated that 1OO,- 900 square miles, or an area approx imateIy that of Wyoming, is suitable for agriculture or as improved pas ture. Most of this land lies within the Matanuska and Panama valleys adjacent to the Alaska Railroad and is open to free homesteading under the same provisions as apply in the states. It is also free from taxation. Much of the land can be cleared at a reasonable cost.
 "The United States Department of Agriculture for 30 years has main tained four agricultural experiment stations located at strategic points at which experimental work best adapted to the respective districts is carried on. The results accomplished at these stations are available to anyone through D ubliehds
 anyone through published bulletins and circulars.