Show TRUCK FARMS IN ALASKA some far fai north riches for patient cultivators prices of produce very high washington on ilow how would you like hire to be a truck farmer in alaska this Is a hypothetical question asked by the states department of 0 agriculture in an official report from the department the question and the answer are included the report says aada would you care to run a truck farm with strawberries selling at to 2 a quart cuart cucumbers 2 to 5 a 1 dozen celery 50 cents each tomatoes 60 50 cents to 1 a pound and other othel I 1 products fou at proportionate prices or would you prefer general farming with a few pigs and chickens as a side line with hay bay selling at 60 to too a ton hogs 30 cents a pound young pigs 75 cents a pound and eggs agga 3 2 a dozen these arleas tire are received in n alas k kit t under at n de r in favorable vor 1 b to market conditions but the prospective settler should consider the difficulties and expense of farming as well as the halh prices of his products alaska la Is not generally given much consideration from an agricultural standpoint and yet despite the rigorous climate a large variety of grains small fruits and vegetables Tege tables are being successfully grown experiments are being madu with tree fruits but tho the results thus tar far have not lot been very encouraging the work c conducted by the government with grains at the rampart experiment station has been an unqualified success varieties of nearly all grains have hate been found th that at irow row well |