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Show ALASKA AS MARKET GARDEN. Experiments Made by Agricultural Department in Yukon Valley. (Cleveland Plain Dealer.) A surprising report has been made to the department of agriculture from Professor Georsreson, in charge of the experiment stations established in Alaska. The professor reports that he has found good gardens all along the Yukon valley, in the cold interior of Alaska. Although the season was unusually un-usually late this year, he found new potatoes, cabbage, cauliflower, beets and other vegetables ready for the table before the middle of August, and. lettuce, let-tuce, radishes and turnips grown in the open had been in use for . some weeks. Flower gardens containing a large variety of annuals grown from seed furnished last year were in full bloom, and encouraging reports are given for spring seed barley and for oats and wheat. ThJ presents an altogether different picture of 'Alaska possibilities from that based on previous reports of the cold and barren wilderness which Secretary Sec-retary Seward bought of Russia to prevent pre-vent its being disposed of . to Great Britain, which would certainly have made an offer had it known that Russia Rus-sia desired to na itself of its American Ameri-can territory. Alaska ' as a market garden or a grain field was not dreamed of by the statesmen who negotiated the deal, but it is among the possibilities that Alaska farmers and market gardeners gar-deners may some day supply a large part of the food products required by the miners, fish canners and workers in future manufactories of .the farthest north territory. '".".' |