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Show 'disease and frost will undoubtedly be' produced. "We have also been intorducing domestic do-mestic animals into Alntka. There are large areas of natural grazing land there and other eondliionn seem moFt propitious. We have now a herd of sixty thoroughbred Galloway cattle on Kndiak island and they propagate rapidly and seem to be very much at home, "The reports of Mr. C. C. Georefon, a special agent M charge of our experiment exper-iment station in Alaska, are a revelation revela-tion of possibilities tip there. Every one who is interested xhould get them and link the matter up carefully as 1 believe there are going to bo some remarkable re-markable successes up there In the near future." ' Secretary Wilson Is also very much Interested in the efforts to cultivate the a-stonlxhing number of wild berries native to the territory and to increase the yield, and quality of hybridization. In the matter of fruits the department has had success with watermelons, niuk melons, plums, currants, cherries gooseberries, raspberries, strawberries nnd others. The strawberries of Alaska Alas-ka are especially good, and apparently a sure crop, when crossed with the native variety. ALASKA FARM LAND READY FOR SETTLERS Alaska is becoming better and bolter known as a land of p. uprises, and tho latest is the official announcement, that it is a great agricultural cuntiy. The announcement is really authoritative, authorita-tive, loo It comes from the conservative conserva-tive secrelarv of agriculture. James Wilson. hiiu:-eir, and In very positive form. The opinion is based on twelve years of trials in the northland bv Hie oil Ice of exprj iment stations and u various special reports, especially that of Special Agent Levi Clubhnck who spent last summer in Alaska and whose report is shortly lo be published publish-ed In an interview a few diys ago Secretary Sec-retary Wil-on said: "Probably one hundred million acres in Alaska are available for atrleuHnrc and eventually this land will yield produce pro-duce worth more than the products of the mines. The continuous daylight of summer makes heavy and rapid growth and even gialns mature remarkably re-markably well. The heaviest oats and barley that ever came to this of lice were grow n in Alaska, and I lie w he at is remarkably fine. "Farmer.- in our northern states will soon find that grain Med brought from Alaska U very desirable for their nsM'. The climatic conditions are very similar to th. se in northern oi ,vav and Sweden. We have been Importing seeds from those countries for tcts in Alaska and they are most satisfactory. satisfac-tory. As growing there is extended a race of hardy seed highly resistant to |
