12 BULLETIN 50, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



EXAMPLES NEAR THE COAST. 



That it is feasible to grow forage crops at Kodiak has been demon- 

 strated, and potatoes and other garden vegetables are successfully 

 grown. Mr. M. D. Snodgrass, superintendent of the Agricultural 



Fig. 2. — Gardens on the south slope facing Cook Inlet, Kenai, Alaska. 



Experiment Station at Kodiak, is proving the feasibility of raising 

 chickens and, besides supplying a local demand, is sending occasional 

 shipments of eggs and chickens by steamer to other south-coast points. 



Fig. 



-Otto Bergstrom's potato' field on cut-over timber land, Seward, Alaska, August, 



1910. 



Near Seward, on Resurrection Bay, the tidewater terminus of the 

 Alaska Northern Railroad, a number of farmers are located, among 

 whom are Ole Martin, Otto Bergstrom (fig. 3), and W. A. McPher- 



