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Show " vaav av GARDENING WITHIN ARCTIC CIRCLE Tlint crop production may bo practiced prac-ticed north of tho Arctic Circlo Is one of tho Interesting fucts brought out by a report on a roconnolssnnco soil survey In Alaska soon to bo Is-bind. Is-bind. This embodies tho results of n study of tho soils of a vast area In Alaska by exports of tho Tiurcnu of Soils, mado for tho purposo of do-tcrminlng do-tcrminlng tho possibilities of aurl-cultural aurl-cultural dovolopmcnt. It wns found that gnrdonlng b. car rled on nnd grass thrlvos In A aska, up to nnd north of tho Arctic Circle. In addition It Is shown that the ell mnto nnd soils of Finland ur,f -ry simllnr to thoso of Alaska, tli . latitude lati-tude of tho two roglons bWur proc tlcnlly ldonUc.il. In Finland a number num-ber of crops aro grown at a 'on-ild-orahlo dlstauco north of tho Vrctlc Circlo. narloy, for example, is pen orally grown ns for north as 2 o groes north of tho olrolo. Almon ?. 000,000 ncros In Finland woro umV-i cultivation and lu Improved uusvhiw In 1901, That country has a populn tlon of 3,110,100 (repined In V.iU) nnd about 85 per cent of this nv.mhoi llvo outsldo tlio cities. Crop iroduc tlon, stock raising, and dairying an Important indiutrles. This comparison with Finland an nuothor with parts of Siberia aro ,-lv en to domonstrato tho possibility o agricultural development In Alaska. |