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Show ALASKA FOR AGRICULTURE. In the National Geographic Magazine for March Mr C e Georgeson special spe-cial agent of the tnlted rjtates Department De-partment of Agilculture in charge if Alaska Investigations has man) good things to say of the agricultural and stock-raising possibilities of Alaska He aB that people who sail along tho coast and see the high forbidding and snow -clad mountains form an altogether alto-gether erroneous Idea of the Interior AUski Is ns large us the whole of that part of the United States esst of the Mlsisli pi river and north of the line of tho Oulf Stales There never could b a greater misconception In regmd to a. geographical fact sas Mr Georgeson, ' than the popular Ideu that It Is a snow -covered Inhospitable waste and It Is strange that this Idea khnillrl ho nn nril,lnllv nmra Old t rt and disseminated among tho people Vs a matter of fact says he ' vou can travel from one end of the Yukon to the other In summei time and never see snow ou see on the contrar) u tangle of luxuriant vegetation large forests and such delicacies as wild raspberries, red cut rants, huckleberries huckleber-ries and cranberries In profusion In places the grass grows us high as a mans shoulder At Hoi) Cross Mission Mis-sion I deslied to photograph some cattle, cat-tle, native born, reared by the fathers and for that purpose asked thut the) be turned Into a meadow reserved for hu), Tom) astonishment I found th it the cattle wcio totally out of sight when they got Into the grass, which reached ubovo their backs ' As he speaks clsewheio about grass being breast-high to a man, thoso native-reared native-reared cattle were probata!) rather small In farming operations, Mr. George-son George-son declares that ull the hardy vgo. tubles can be t,ro n In Alaska, except on tho coast of Bering sea 1 have never teen finer potutoes, cuullllowcr, cabbage, kale, peas lettuce an 1 ra 1-Ishcs,' 1-Ishcs,' he sa)s, ' fhan huvc been grown at the experiment stations ut bltku und Kcnal ' Ho hurt seen at Dawson a magnltlcent rilsplnj of native green vegetables comprising ull tho haid) kinds," oats, baric) und wheat on many ranches perfectly normal In ull particulars are grown there b) u local experimenter. At Haglo the rurne vegetables vege-tables urc f,ronn, us, well ns man) llowers In full bloom At Holy Cross Mission lie ate new potutoes cauliflower, cauliflow-er, cabbage, eariots, beets, lettuce and radishes In the beginning eif August all giown In the Mission BardeiiB Winter re matured at Itumpart b) tho first of Vugust. Barley seeded In May was ripe In August line spring wheat Is grown nt the station at bltku Man) other Instances of successful firming ure given, both In vegetables and gruln even us far north as Kort bclklrk In live stock ho tells of successful raising In ever) considerable settle ment except Nome Ho even tells of horses and mules wintering on the range Ho sa)s tho Kechumstulc Indians In-dians call cattle ' McKlnley moose and Amcrlcuiis Mcklnlc) men The chief of tho vlllago hud secured an American Hag and holsled It whenever ho learned thut white men were In his terrllor) Mi. Georgeson sees a great future for Alaska, in both agriculture and stock raising Wh), then do peoi le not do there nnd open farms' Ho sa)s It Is ' because settlers cannot get tltlo to the land If a settler tries lo r,et title, he muse get additional homestead home-stead scrip which can be located on unsitivocd land but this costs from 1 to f 15 per aire Then ho must deposit de-posit for tho cost of the survo) und as tho deput) simoom charge IIS to 10 per da und expenses the cost is as much ns Improved farms In the States Ho suggests that land might advantageousl) le m ido absolutely free to the actual settlcis in Alasku with un allownino nf 520 ncres to the famll) If Mr Georgeson Is ns practical practi-cal a man us his cilllnp and the read Ing of his article would suggest, then Alaska Is bound to become one of tho gieat farming and stock lnlslng legions le-gions of the eaith, as 1 inland is of Hurope In as high u latitude, und wllh oven a more rigorous climate |