ALABAMA—ALASKA 5 
to 300 trees may be grown on an acre, 
and the average tree will produce one 
bushel of fruit, which will make from 
150 to 300 bushels, netting $100 to $200 
fig. This fruit demands the highest price 
when canned, and finds ready sale on 
the market, bringing 35 cents per can. 
The fig is an easy fruit to can. 
per acre. This is a low estimate for the W. P. WILLIAMS 
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Precipitation, 
} Average Date of Date of Annual 
Station | | 
First Last Earliest Latest 
Killing wm Gt Killin aoe Inches 
in Autumn in Spring | in Autumn in Spring 
Florence. ..... 0 60 cece ee ne nee ee Oct. 31 April J Oct. 25 | April 9 50.3 
Decatur, 2. 0. wee eae Oct. 15 April i Oct. 2 | April 15 49.5 
Valley Head... Oct. 20 April 5 Oct. 6 , April 30 54,4 
Oneonto....... 6 cee eee ee eee eee Oct, 15 April 10 Sept. +4 | May 2 53.7 
Birmingham......... Le eee eens Nov. 5 Mar. 19 Oct. 22 | April 10 56.8 
AMMISTOWN.... cc ee cece eet eee es Oct. 20 April 2 Oct. 6 April 20 49.1 
Tuscolusa....... cee ce eet eee eeeee Nov. 6 Mar. 23 Oct. 21 April 9 49.5 
Good Water... ....000 5 cece ene ee ees | Nov. 9 Mar. 20 Oct. 18 | April 8 48.9 
Greensboro... . 0. cece ee eee eee | Nov. 8 Mar. 20 | Oct. 24 April 5 48.5 
Pushmataba.......0 cece cee eee renee Nov. 12 Mar. 21 | Oct. 25 April 5 52.8 
Montgomery... ... Nov. 8 Mar. 11 Oct. 21 April 65 50.8 
Opilika.... Lock ce ee ce cee wee ee Nov 9 Mar. 17 Oct. 25 | April 1 49.1 
Eufaula. 2... cee eee eee ee ee Nov. 9 Mar. 14 Oct. 25 ' April 1 51.1 
Evergreen. 2.0.0.0 ce cc ue es cee bees Nov. 12 Mar. 13 Oct. 24 | April 5 51.0 
Momible Nov. 30 eb. 21 Oct. 31 Mar. 28 62.1 
or bloom periods of apples in Southern Alabama, see Louisiana, where conditions are similar, 
Alaska 
Alaska is the northwestern extreme of 
the Cordilleran system of mountain 
ranges that extends through North 
America from north to south along the 
Pacific Ocean, through the central part 
of the United States, and include that 
great central range called the Rocky 
Mountains, also the Cascades, the Sierra 
Nevada in California, Sierra Madre in 
Mexico and Central America, and the 
Andes in South America. Panama is a 
mountain pass, dividing this range of 
mountains which is the same range no 
matter by what names its parts are called 
in the different countries; it is the same 
formation caused by the same action of 
the shrinking of the earth and the con- 
sequent uplift of parts of its surface, 
and the destruction of other parts. The 
highest peak in the range is Mt. Me- 
Kinley, over 20,000 feet high; rugged, 
cold, defiant, it stands like a lone sen- 
tinel in the far north. 
The country was purchased by the 
United States for $7,200,000, or about two 
cents per acre. Considering the distance 
north, the climate along the coast is mild, 
for it is washed by the Japan Current 
which warms its temperature. However, 
the coast line is rugged, the valleys small, 
and the heavy rainfall is unfavorable for 
the growth of many kinds of agricultural 
products. The interior is drained by the 
Yukon river. This interior is a great 
basin which is similar in some respects to 
the other interior basins near the Pacific 
Coast where the difference in climate 
as compared to the coast region is very 
great. The basin east of the mountain 
range is warm in summer and exceed- 
ingly cold in winter. The rainfall is 
slight and the growing period in the 
Yukon Valley is only about four months. 
Judging from the abundance of native 
fruits, especially of berries, it is believed 
that varieties from the states can be- 
come acclimated and grown with some 
degree of success. 
In his 1912 report C. C. Georgeson, who 
has charge of the Alaska Experiment 
Stations, and who is doing much to in- 
troduce hardy fruits into that country 
and to develop hardy varieties adapted to 
the conditions, says: 
Potato Crop 
“Potatoes were grown on a commer- 
cial scale at Fairbanks, and for profit. 
The object is to demonstrate that farm- 
ing can be made to pay in Alaska. The 
station is somewhat handicapped in 
carrying out this plan because it does 
not want to go into competition with 
