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i Our Weekly Letter From : f 
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(Special to the North Shore Breeze.) 
Washington, D. C., Aug. 10.—Since 
the Department of Agriculture first 
took up the question of farming in 
Alaska there has been a great deal of 
interest manifested in that subject, 
and it must be confessed, some scep- 
ticism. However, the Department is 
how in a position to give out some 
definite information regarding this 
subject in the Annual Report of the 
Alaska Agricultural Experiment 
Stations for 1909, which is for sale 
by the Superintendent of Documents, 
Government Printing Office. 
““Would you care to run a truck 
farm with strawberries selling at 
$1.25 to $2.00 a quart,’’ asks the De- 
partment in a bulletin announcing 
the publication of the report, ‘‘cu- 
cumbers $2 to $5 a dozen, celery 50 
cents each, tomatoes 50 cents to $1 
a pound, and other products at pro- 
portionate prices? Or would you 
prefer general farming with a few 
pigs and chickens as a side line, with 
hay selling at $60 to $100 a ton, hogs 
30 cents a pound, young pigs 75 
cents a pound, and eggs $2 a dozen? 
These prices are received in Alaska 
under favorable market conditions. 
‘““There are several successful far- 
‘mers at Fairbanks. The climate 
shows a wide variation. The coast 
towns are mild for that region, 
neither Sitka nor Kodiak reaching 
zero during 1909 while Juneau only 
reached 5 degrees below in January 
with a daily mean for the month of 
14.15’’, 
The International Union for Co- 
operation in Solar Research will con- 
vene in its fourth session, August 29, 
at Mount Wilson, California. Forty 
astronomers and physicists from 
Europe have signified their inten- 
tion of being present. There will 
also be a large number of American 
astronomers there. The forty from 
abroad will leave Boston, August 20, 
‘under the direction of the Astronom- 
deal and Astrophysical society of 
America, and will go to Chicago via 
| Niagara’ Falls to see the Yerkes ob- 
Servatory. Thence they will go to 
Flagstaff, Ariz., to see the famous 
Lowell observatory, and from there 
they will proceed to Pasadena, which 
is at the foot of the mountain where 
they are to hold their sessions. It is 
Stated that this promises to be one 
of the most notable gatherings of 
Scientists that has been held in this 
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DN. J, Flanders, P.T.M. 
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tury. From a scientific standpoint 
it is unquestionably of great signi- 
ficance, and the public will await 
results with more or less anxiety. 
Everyone who has ever used lum- 
ber, even in a limited way, knows it 
always comes in even lengths,— that 
is twelve feet, fourteen feet, sixteen 
feet long, and so forth. It has never 
been possible to go to a lumber yard 
and buy a thirteen-foot board, or 
one 11 feet long. If you wanted one 
11 feet long, you had to buy a 12-foot 
board and saw off the extra foot 
which was then of no use to you. 
The National Lumber Manufac- 
turers’ Association finally discovered 
that there was no good reason for 
this system, and in 1909 it adopted 
resolutions favoring the manufac- 
ture of odd-length flooring, ceiling, 
drop and bevel siding, finish, par- 
tition and moulding. Then the manu- 
facturers on the Pacific coast began 
to make the odd lengths and finally 
the Forest Service of the Department 
of Agriculture has taken up the sub- 
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country, have been wondering when 
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be opened for business, it may be 
good news that it is expected to 
