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BBHBFSKSS9ES «,.#'*' « *'**!/** ♦ , : m »■»*«■ DAY. FEBRUARY 14, 1»24 OESCHiBES 30 KEAP.S fF FARM WORK IN ALASKA Experiments With Plant* and Animal* Show Agricultural Posaibilitie* of Territory. Growing Interest In Alaska ** 1°&I ago as 1897 led congress to make an appropriation for experimental work in agriculture In that territory. An account of this work since then and up to the present date is Included In a report just Issued by the director of the states relations service of the Uni ted States Department of Agriculture at Washington covering the past 30 years. A station waa established, says the report, at Sitka and subsidiary stations have since been maintained at Kenai (transferred to Kodiak In 1908), Cop per Center (transferred to Fairbanks In 1908), Rampart, Fairbanks, Maja- nuska, and on Kodiak island. C. C. Georgeson has been in immediate charge of all the Alaska work since the beginning, and Walter U. Evans, who Joined the Wasldngton force of the oliice of experiment stations in 1892. has represented this office In gen eral supervision of this enterprise. Through extensive travel of station v* tlwtljpa of seeds distributed by the station* and on their other agricultural oper ations, and a large amount of experi mental work with plants and animal*, great progress has been made In de termining the agricultural possibilities i of this vast territory. Much has also been done in selecting and breeding | varieties of plants adapted to the soil I and climate conditions in different parts of Alaska. Experfments with animals have also shown much re garding their breeding, care, and man agement as related to Alaskan condi tions. It has been demonstrated that wheat, oats, barley, potatoes, and many kinds of vegetables of good qual ity can be grown In different parts of the territory.. Numerous garden* In. many places now regularly furnish settler* goodly contributions to their food supply and a considerable num ber of farmers and horticulturist* are carrying on larger agricultural oper ations. A basis has thus been laid by the station work for considerable ag riculture In Alaska when the growth of mining, lumbering, and other in dustries encourages a sufficiently large influx of farming people. IIIHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIUIHIIIIIIUIIIIIIIIHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIHIIIIIINIIIIHIIIM^ YOUR DOLUIRS WILL WORK v > UKE TWINS DURING '-"n ■>* veiaiirto** Firtl Woman Admitted to the Bar in Germany Miss Maria Otto. LL. D., who waa ■worn in at the Munich law courts recently, and admitted to the bar as the first woman solicitor in Germany. Miss Otto, who Is a native of the city of Wurzburg, Bavaria, ha* stud ied law at the universltiea of Wur*- burg, Leipzig. Berlin and Munich, where she got her degree. Shelia also a graduate of the Munich Commercial college, and has for the last four years been practicing w-ith a well-known Mu nich solicitors firm Farm Organization* Da $ift00,000,000 Bonnet* Marketing organizations of farmers did more than $2,000,000,000 worth of j business last year. Reports to the Department of Agri culture at Washington from 2,600 grain organizations show business totaling $490,000,000; 1,841 dairy products or ganizations, $300,000,000; 1,181 live ■took shipping associations, $220,000,- 900; 956 fruit and vegetable associa tions. $280,000,000; 78 cotton co-opera tives, $100,000,000, and 14 tobacco or ganizations, $132,00,000. Only 8,313 of the 10,300 organiza tions have reported, of which 90 per cent were primarily engaged In sell ing farm products and 10 per cent la collective purchasing of farm supplies. V Xj GirU to Whittle for Police When Moletted • Whistling for a policeman may be come the chief form of protection of women against criminals. A private detective of Los Angeles has invented a whistle for women to carry, which, he asserts, if used properly, will be greater aid in eliminating crime than If citizens carried guns He hag demonstrated Ms plan, and hopes to standardize the signal so that bg know* throughout the coun try as th* official call far Help. Com panies will he asked to provide their ds with them aid give instrue in their ash f«idi» — T j Wednesday and Thursday Feb. 20th and Feb. 21st A LL THE leading stores of Columbia are cooperating in this big two-day sale, the object of which is to demonstrate the advantages of the Capital City as a shopping center and to promote good will in the trade territory by offering values such as will be re membered and talked about. Tor many weeks the leading stores have been planning for this sale, searching the world markets for attractive goods to be offered at prices only possible through large scale * buying and quick selling. WATCH THE COLUMBIA NEWSPAPERS For Dollar Day Offerings at the Various Stores Every man, woman and child within 75 miles of Columbia will find both pleasure and profit in a trip to Columbia for this big event. Make your plans now to be in Columbia on these two days. You must come in per- son for mail orders cannot be filled. K LOOK FOR THIS SIGN IN THE SHOW WINDOWS r—j i! I! 111 j • 11:1 j! I h j j, i' \ ■ \- i-- I*, i :J. Jl it*. • ,’»* '• , \ •. 1 Y eflflHMIHB HHHBi