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made to greenly grow all winter beneath the snows of this most 

 inhospitable of our territorial possessions. 



The article quoted from the Chicago Journal, will, we are sure, 

 convince every reader that the past one has been a winter through- 

 out the North and East, justifying us in saying that so far as Alle- 

 gany County, N. Y. goes, that farmers using our system may defy 

 the Frost King. 



It is three years since the Hon, Warner Miller, so ably and emi- 

 nently representing New York in the United States Senate, re- 

 marked : 



" If you can realize the results claimed under your system, Mr. 

 Cole, and I incline to believe it, then our State is capable of main- 

 taining a population within its limits of an hundred millions, sup- 

 ported in comfort, from agriculture and horticulture alone," 



If this is possible in the State of New York, we ask our readers 

 to read the following copied from The Norlhivest, of March, 1884, 

 and estimate what our system would do when applied to the most 

 inhospitable, and hitherto deemed, from an agricultural point of 

 view, hopeless region embraced within the boundaries of the Ame- 

 rican Union : 



" Alaska is a broad peninsula situated at the northwestern ex- 

 tremity of the continent, washed on the south by the mild waters 

 of the Pacific and on the north by those of the frozen Arctic. 

 Upon its frozen and deeply indented shore line, towering and rug- 

 ged headlands enclose quiet and picturesque coves and harbors, 

 within many of which the united naval fleets of the world might 

 float, secure from the storm-tossed billows of the encompassing 

 oceans. Extending back from its coast is a broad zone of fertile 

 lands, characterized by wide-reaching plateaus and magnificent 

 valleys, richly clothed with native grasses, and watered by deep- 

 flowing, majestic rivers. 



