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Show i WHAT ALASKA ;HAS TO OFFER Coming back from Alaska, I government govern-ment scientist has said there are 100,-looo 100,-looo square miles- of rich agricultural land grazing land In Alaska awaiting l the arrival of settlers who can have the land without cost, and the govern mi nt expert declares Alaska offers a rea opportunity In cattle raising and farming. Commenting on this statement, F. J Has kin says: Climate remains the big problem prob-lem to be met In life In this part of tho world. What the homesteader home-steader can raise in his garden, how he can market surplus prod ucts, whether he lives in comfort com-fort or misery, depends on his understanding un-derstanding or the climate and how to adapt himself to It Tern perature and humidity are so widely varied In this territory that it Is difficult to describe the j Alaskan weather conditions as a whole. At Sltka the thermometer rarely goes to zero, and mo win ten are not much colder than those in Washington. T At Fairbanks, on the other hand, 60 degrees below zero Is not un known This Is the sort of weather weath-er which typifies Alaska to most people, and It Is the fear of en-COUnteHng en-COUnteHng months Of unbroken eold thai makes many an otherwise other-wise adventurous spirit cling to the conr.irtive warmth of a semiheated flat In what Is supposed sup-posed to be a temperate zone Alaskan winters are in general snowv and cold In the summer, for nbout three months, the coun try warms up astonishingly, and In some places the sun gets so hut that the men knock off from work in the hottest part of tin-day tin-day This Is the season when the landowner has to hustle to raise and harvest his crops He has only trom May t DOSSibl) the first ol September, three and a half months at most, When wealh er conditions are favorable to farming, and while this la about the length ni the farming season in North Dakota urn Montane seems short In comparison with the nix or eight months" season In a larg prrt of our country. nn |