Cereal growing in Alaska

Authors

• C. C. Georgeson
• G. W. Gasser

Files

Description

Prior to the establishment of the Alaska Agricultural Experiment Stations it was almost universally believed that Alaska was a frozen, inhospitable wilderness, and therefore worthless for agricultural purposes. Even as late as 1899 it was declared wholly unreasonable to expect anything like cereals to grow so far north, this statement being fortified by an account of the glaciers and ice fields that the tourist sees in the coast region. To-day, however, public opinion is favorably changing as the result of experiments carried on by the stations; and it is beginning to be realized that the country has great agricultural possibilities, its productive power being merely a matter of development. (Fig. 1.)

Publication Date

5-17-1926

Keywords

Grain, Alaska, Agriculture, Cereal

Recommended Citation

Georgeson, C. C. and Gasser, G. W., "Cereal growing in Alaska" (1926). Bulletin. 100.
https://ualaska.researchcommons.org/uaf_afes_bulletin/100

Handle

http://hdl.handle.net/11122/9697