| Summary: | United States Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Agricultural Economics cooperating with Alaska Agricultural Experiment Station Summary -- Introduction: Markets and market facilities, Transportation, Areas studied: Kenai Peninsula, Anchorage area, Fairbanks and the Tanana Valley, Kodiak Island and the Aleutians -- The Matanuska Valley: Community facilities, Source of data, Acres of cleared land, Farm organization, Dairy farming, A dairy farm, Typical dairy farm with potato enterprise, Potato farming, A potato farm, The vegetable enterprise, Poultry, Livestock farming, Part-time farming -- Other physical and financial requirements for farming in Alaska: Farm power and equipment, Clearing land a real problem, Farm buildings, Capital requirements, Credit problems
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