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will try to make this statement word for word as I made it be- 

 fore the federation. I want to quote from a Cass Lake paper — 

 and they took the article from the Journal ; I will only read the 

 latter part. It said, "This little strip of garden has been fed 

 with a quantity of fertilizer and artificially watered and is culti- 



Luinbered area main forest reserve, showing seed trees left. Reproduced by permission of 

 the Forest Service, U. S. Department of Agriculture. 



vated by an imported German gardener." (The Cass Lake paper 

 said nothing about fertilizer and perfectly ignored artificial 

 watering, but they wondered where the lady had obtained her 

 information as to the "imported" German). "Evidently she re- 

 fers to Suter's garden patch and the man who looks after the 

 work. Mr. Suter is an intelligent man, and the garden was 

 worked before he came to Cass Lake." They know where I 

 obtained it ; I obtained it from Mr. and Mrs. Suter. This gar- 

 dener, as they called the chore boy, was dignified with the name 

 of porter in a small hotel, but his duties as porter were not .very 

 arduous, and the garden was right across the street from the 

 hotel, and I saw him myself — and seeing is believing — and I saw 

 that he spent considerable of his time there, and one day in 

 talking with Mrs. Suter I said to her, "Why do you plant your 

 tomatoes so close together? I plant mine a little further apart 

 than you do yours." She said, "Well, we have nothing to say 

 about the garden this year. We tried gardening several years, 

 and we never had any results until Joe took charge of it this 

 year, and this year we have had the first tomatoes we ever had 

 out of our garden." 



Then they will tell you you cannot make a forest reserve out 

 of that country because the white pine and the Norway will not 

 re-seed. Here is a stalwart lumberman, of forty years' experience. 



