Alaska and the Panama canal . CANTALOUPES ON THE GOVERNMENT FARM AT GROWING STRAWBERRIES, U. S. GOVERNMENT FARM, SITKA. ALASKA 63 intensive, expensive and pretensive. The two latter defini-tions apply particularly to farming in Alaska. It is possible, however, that the industrious, plodding for-eigner from the far North countries of Europe and Asia canwork out something, in the next century, in this land. I willquote the United States homestead law on proving up. Eachhomesteader may take 320 acres. Here is how he can proveit up. That at least one-eighth of the area embraced in thee
Alaska and the Panama canal . CANTALOUPES ON THE GOVERNMENT FARM AT GROWING STRAWBERRIES, U. S. GOVERNMENT FARM, SITKA. ALASKA 63 intensive, expensive and pretensive. The two latter defini-tions apply particularly to farming in Alaska. It is possible, however, that the industrious, plodding for-eigner from the far North countries of Europe and Asia canwork out something, in the next century, in this land. I willquote the United States homestead law on proving up. Eachhomesteader may take 320 acres. Here is how he can proveit up. That at least one-eighth of the area embraced in theentry was continuously cultivated to agricultural crops, otherthan native grasses, beginning with the second year of entry;and that at least one-fourth of the area embraced in the wholeentry was so continuously cultivated with the third year ofentry. Under this law not a whole claim of 320 acres has yetbeen lawfully proved up in Alaska. One-fourth of 320 acresis 80 acres; at a cost of $125 an acre to put in the first crop,the farmer would have invested $10,000 in clearing the
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