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And practically all the improvements necessary to make 

 possible establishment of such an important piece of work would 

 be represented in a barn, a shop, maybe a packing house and 

 possibly a small plain building 1 for the housing of what labor 

 might be needed in the spring and fall with the activities of 

 the nursery. 



Then establishment of such an industry in the name of the 

 Forest Preserve District of Cook County at such a nominal cost 

 would give us the further advantage of a field headquarters 

 from which the District could conduct all other lines of develop- 

 ment that are contemplated. 



"SHOCK-HEAD WILLOWS, Two BY Two, BY RIVERS GALLOPADED."- 

 TENNYSON (DESPLAINES RIVER). 



And these lines are many and important. For instance 

 there is the work of stocking the District streams with fish, 

 something which every citizen will agree is necessary. In that 

 we have already the co-operation of the State Game and Fish 

 Commission. 



In many of the preserve tracts the streams are today getting 

 the attention of the "state stockers" a propagation campaign 

 which will eventually give the district dozens of clear-water 

 streams abounding in fish such as black bass, croppies and blue 

 gills. 



And with what help the District gets from the State Com- 

 mission we will be able to establish a game and fish department 

 of our own that will in a few years be able to bring the county 

 forest lands back to a state, as to wild life, that stood before 

 the advent of hunters. 



