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Show FARMING IN ALASKA. Alaska has farming prospects which are rather inviting, according to Frank G. Carpenter who has visited live government experiment station in chargo of Professor 0. C. Georgeson The expert is quoted as saying: "There Is no doubt Alaska will iiwiBnpncgnrai i .1 1 1 some day support a large farming J population. I see no reason why the territory should not eventually have a atahlo' population, of threo millions or more. Wo aro discovering new plants and grains every season. I .es-tlmato .es-tlmato that Alaska hag about 100,000' square miles that can be used for agricultural agri-cultural purposes. That means that It has 84,000,000 acres, or an area two and a half times that of Ohio or Virginia, Vir-ginia, that can be turned into farms and lanches. At Fairbanks hay now brings G0 and upward a ton, whllo imported alfalfa sells for $125 a ton. I remember that I got as much as $240 a ton for grain hay w"hen we had an experiment station on tho Copper River near Cordova, and that we often oft-en sold hay there for as high as five cents a pound. This was before the pcoplo had started farming. After that they sent in objections to the Agricultural Department at Washington, Washing-ton, saying that tho experiment station sta-tion ought not to compete in the raar- kets. The matter was brought before Secretary Wilson. He replied that ?2-10 a ton was too high for hay, and ordered us to keep on raising it and selling it until the price went down to ?75 a ton. He said that ho thought $75 a ton was enough for hay any-w any-w here." i |