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THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



small parks following the chain of lakes 

 connecting the Itasca Park with Leech 

 Lake is already under contemplation by 

 the State authorities, as was explained by 

 Governor Lincl at the banquet given to the 

 visitors last night by the Minnesota For- 

 estry and Park Association. But there is 

 410 large body of forests now under Federal' 

 control, except that covered by the treaty 

 with the Chippewas, and the advocates of 

 a national park will look anxiously to Con- 

 gress to devise some means by which these 

 forests may be placed under some system 

 of forestry regulation. 



Some tracts of it fringing on the borders 

 of the lake should be entirely exempted 

 from the depredations of the axmen and 

 devoted to park and sanitary purposes ex- 

 clusively. But for the rest it will be suffi- 

 cient to make the park features of it sub- 

 ordinate to a general scheme of forest pres- 

 ervation or to a system of regulation for 

 the economical cutting of the timber so as 

 to preserve the younger trees and maintain 

 the integrity of the forests on lands chiefly 

 suitable for forest growth. The park pro- 

 ject falls in admirably with this larger 

 scheme of forest preservation and reforest- 

 ing the cut-over lands, which is not con- 

 fined to any special tracts, but should 

 extend over the whole forest region so far 

 as this can be done in any one of the sev- 

 eral ways which have heretofore been 

 suggested. 



THE MAINE CAT INDUSTRY. 



The Masschusetts Ploughman, which 

 lias been studying up the Maine cat indus- 

 try, learns that there were larger shipments 

 of cats from Maine the past year then for 

 any season previous, over 6,400 cats hav- 

 ing been shipped out of the state to all 

 parts of the United States and to foreign 

 countries. One concern alone, the Walnut 

 Ridge Farm Co. of Boston, sent 986 An- 

 goras; Frederick D. Nudd, of Watervillei 

 486; Mr. Emery, of North Anson, 379; 

 Mrs. Mary H. Ranlett, of Kockland, 280; 

 E. W. Palmer, of llockland, 114; J. W. 

 Dean, of Troy, 419; besides manv others. 

 Besides this large shipment of Angoras, 



there are now over 1,860 Angora cats re- 

 maining in the hands of dealers in various 

 sections of Maine. It is estimated that 

 there are only 32.500 Angora cats in all 

 America, compared with several million of 

 the common cats. The number of Angora 

 cats in' Maine is gradually diminishing, 

 there being at least 1,000 less each season. 

 The demand is so great for them that tlie 

 farmers cannot keep up with a sufficient 

 supply. Maine people made over $50,000 

 last year on their cats. Just think of this 

 when tempted to throw a boot-jack at seie- 

 nading Tommy. 



WITH OUR EXCHANGES. 



MCCLURE'S. 



The November issue of McClure's gives 

 us Kipling's new poem, "The King." The 

 leading article is one of exploration in the 

 Antarctic region, by Dr. Frederick A. 

 Cook, and is entitled "Two Thousand 

 Miles in the Antartic Ice." The Chinese 

 Eastern Railway" is another subject taken 

 up, while a number of pleasing short sto- 

 ries make up a nice number. 

 SCRIBNER'S. 



In the November number Arthur T. 

 Hadley grapples with the proolem now 

 agitating the public, the "Formation and 

 Control of Trusts." The autobiographical 

 sketh of Mrs. John Drew is continued in 

 this number and there are a number of 

 short sketches. 



THE FORUM 



Contains such a number of exceptionally 

 good papers this month that it is impos- 

 sible to even mention them. Among them 

 are "Spain Living or Dying?" "What the 

 World Owes to France," "The Problem of 

 the American Marine," and "Will Chinese 

 Development Benefit the World?" 



THE REVIEW OP REVIEWS. 



In the November number gives a charac- 

 ter sketch of Cecil llhodes, by Win. T. 

 Stead. Mr. Stead is inclined to paint a 

 very flattering picture of the South Afri- 

 can financier, whom the public has com- 

 monly regarded as a cnld-hearted money - 

 gi-itcr. "Knjjl.md at Wur.with the Boers" 

 is the name of an exhaustive article, and 

 "The Peare Conference and tlie Monroe 

 Doctiine" i=< another interesting topic dis- 

 cussed. 



