Photo from L,eouard Davis. 



TURNIPS WEIGHING 12 POUNDS GROWN IN A PRIVATE GARDEN AT RAMPART, ALASKA 



"And in agriculture the government itself has demonstrated that it will produce in 

 abundance all that can be raised in the Scandinavian countries, the hardy cereals and vege- 

 tables, the meats and the berries off which nine million people live in Norway, Sweden, and 

 Finland. It has been estimated that there are 50 million acres of this land that will make 

 homes for a people as sturdy as those of New England. Whether this is so or not, it would 

 appear that Alaska can be made self-sustaining agriculturally" (see text, page 185). 



work and insuring large returns to the 

 Indians. In the Oklahoma case one great 

 corporation, however, was given so large 

 a body of land that after the original 

 discovery it found it profitable to farm 

 out its rights to subsidiary companies. 

 This might easily be prevented by regula- 



tions under which the government would 

 reserve to itself the adjoining lands. 



Indeed, I would not be adverse to 

 granting such a license in unexplored 

 country for, say, four sections of land, 

 and in the event of discovery permitting 

 patent to issue to the discoverer for a full 



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