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lings need, and the chances are that all the cut worms under that 

 straw starved to death owing to lack of vegetation in the soil, and it 

 also prevented the laying of eggs. After repeated efforts we have 

 resorted to this method, and wherever we want to grow a garden 

 we cover the ground the previous season with straw and leave it 

 there till the following spring, and as soon as it gets dry enough 

 in the spring we burn off the straw, and if there are any larvae there 

 they will be between the earth and the straw hunting for food. 

 Burning off the straw will give them a surprise they will never get 

 over. I would suggest that as a remedy. We commenced it five 

 or six years ago and found it absolutely infallible, and it places 

 the ground in better condition than it can be put by any other method 

 I know of. 



Mr. Emil Sahler: When do you spread that straw? 



Prof. Waldron : The latter part of May and leave it there until 

 just before you sow your seed. 



Mr. Sahler: Wouldn't it do just as well to put it on in the fall? 



Prof. Waldron : Yes, you can put it on any time and leave it 

 all winter and burn it in the spring. 



Mr. Elliot : There is another remedy that I used when I was 

 running a market garden. I used to take Paris green and mix it 

 with water and sprinkle it on the ground two or three times during 

 the season, and I found that to be a good remedy. 



Prof. Waldron : We tried that, but still we had cut worms left. 

 In regard to gophers, we used a material manufactured by the 

 Pasteur Vaccine Co, and found it to be an excellent remedy. 



OUR FOREST RESERVE. -THE PART MINNESOTA 

 PEOPLE PLAYED IN SECURING IT. 



H. H. CHAPMAN, GRAND RAPIDS. 



Our forest reserve is an accomplished fact. Let those who say 

 that public opinion is powerless against the greed of corporate inter- 

 est pause and consider. This legislation was passed after encounter- 

 ing bitter and determined opposition, not only from lumbermen but 

 from almost the entire population of the section it affected. It was 

 passed after the first flush of enthusiasm in its support had died out 

 and after many of its most conspicuous and prominent advocates 

 had abandoned the cause. Their ardor was cooled and interest 

 abated by the apparent hopelessness of overcoming the difficulties 

 in the way or by the fear of drawing upon themselves the odium with 

 which the opponents of the movement, especially the Duluth press, 

 sought to overwhelm and crush them. So violent and bitter was this 

 opposition that it was practically impossible for a business man or 

 professional man to take a pronounced public stand for the forest re- 

 serve without having assigned to him the lowest and most mercenary 

 motives. Men high in authority and unprejudiced by personal 

 motives solemnly avowed that the thing could not be done, the vested 



