456 MINNESOTA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



What are the conditions in this state with reference to game 

 preservation? I do not think the laws have always been en- 

 forced, but they are being enforced today with the utmost vigor 

 — although there are those connected with the enforcement of 

 the laws that are lax in their duties — but the enforcement of these 

 laws is always easier where there is behind it a wholesome pub- 

 lic sentiment, and I believe this little gathering I see before me 

 is in sympathy with this proposition. 



Who are the enemies of the game laws of this state? I will 

 only take a moment to speak in reference to this point. An- 

 tipathy to the game laws is not due to any one particular cause, 

 but it is something that may be expressed in one word, "commer- 

 cialism." Commercialism has always been in the way of prac- 

 tical game protection. The lumbermen in Minnesota, and not 

 only in Minnesota but in the Adirondacks in New York, have 

 found venison cheaper to buy than to pay for steers or sheep or 

 swine. Only two years ago New York passed a law providing 

 that no game caught in New York be permitted to be sold in 

 New York City unless it came from a distance exceeding two 

 hundred and twenty-five miles. It was a law that ought to have 

 brought the blush of shame to any one who was guilty of as- 

 sisting in enacting it. It has been changed, but it was during the 

 season when ducks could be slaughtered along the southern coast 

 of North Carolina, and I am told by a gentleman from North 

 Carolina that there were at least two thousand ducks shipped 

 daily that had been shot in the marshes along the coast of North 

 Carolina that went to feed the people of New York, but since the 

 change in the law the ducks have been somewhat on the increase 

 along the eastern coast. The hands of those who are charged 

 with the administration of the game laws should be upheld, and 

 public sentiment should be behind it, and it is something that 

 is worthy of being taken in hand by the general government and 

 should be endorsed. (Applause.) 



Prof. C. N. Burkett in his New Book on "Soils" Says— Bear these 

 things in mind. 1. Sand areas, when properly re-enforced with humus, water, 

 and plant food, are pecuharly adapted to all kinds of truck crops. 2. Early 

 truck crops are more safely produced when a maximum of sand and a 

 minimum quantity of clay prevail. 3, General or late truck crops are most 

 safely produced when the sand type carries the minimum of the coarser and 

 the maximum of the finer sand grades. 4. Fruitgrowing calls for considerable 

 clay as a i)art of the sand type. 5. The best corn crops are produced where 

 neither sand nor clay predominates — the silt materials producing the best 

 results. 6. The general grain crops are best suited when furnished a silt type 

 of soil. 7. Wheat is most at home in soils where fine silt and clay predominate. 

 8. Grass fancies most those soils that carry a high percentage of clay. 9. Po- 

 tatoes perfer a sand type where medium sand prevails, where silt is present 

 in a medium quantity and where clay is present only in moderate quantities. 

 10. With these special types must be included good tillage, humus, air 

 moisture, and plant food. 



