Alaska and the Panama canal . , February and March. His horses were doing well. You must remember, how-ever, that Kodiak Island is quite a favored spot and the climatethere is tempered by the warm Japan Current. All over Alaskaone finds an abundance of wild grass, red top, suitable forwild hay, and there is no doubt but that, in time, a breed of 66 ALASKA cattle, sheep and horses will be developed sufficiently hardyto take care of themselves and supply the home market, andsufficient oats and hay will be raised to feed them through thelong winter months The Government has agricultural farms at
Alaska and the Panama canal . , February and March. His horses were doing well. You must remember, how-ever, that Kodiak Island is quite a favored spot and the climatethere is tempered by the warm Japan Current. All over Alaskaone finds an abundance of wild grass, red top, suitable forwild hay, and there is no doubt but that, in time, a breed of 66 ALASKA cattle, sheep and horses will be developed sufficiently hardyto take care of themselves and supply the home market, andsufficient oats and hay will be raised to feed them through thelong winter months The Government has agricultural farms at Rampart andFairbanks as well as at Sitka. The two first-named points arein the interior—near the Arctic Circle—where from the first,or middle, of May until the first of August there is practicallyno night. The sun does not disappear below the horizon onan average of over one and a half hours per day during thesethree months. This is equal to an average of nearly fivemonths of sunshine and daylight during a period of three. i^imm^ THE SPOTLESS CABIN OF C. H. ANWAY, HAINES, ALASKA. IS A BACHELOR AND ALSO A STRAWBERRY KING. ALASKA 67 months. I observed very little difference between the experi-mental crops of these three widely separated stations. Ifthere was any superiority it seemed in favor of the interiorfarms, although they have only about twelve inches of rainfallin a season. The frost coming out of the ground continuouslyduring the summer season, of course, furnishes grains raised are oats, barley, wheat and rye. The wheat and rye should beput in during thea u t u m n, and, ifthere is a good fallof snow, they aresure to do well andmature. Sometimesthe oats and barleysown in May arecaught by the earlyfrosts, but areworth almost as
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