a big cranberry crop in the swampy districts are promising. 



The raspberry season is on in full blast in the vicinity of 

 Deerwood and the Bay Lake Fruit Growers' Association is 

 harvesting one of the largest crops ever grown in that ter- 

 ritory. Special cars are being furnished by the Northern 

 Pacific railway for the Twin Cities, Fargo and other Western 

 points. One express refrigerator car loaded with 800 cases 

 was sent to Winnipeg. 



The Indians are unusually busy picking berries, all the 

 way from the White Earth reservation to Pigeon river, and 

 will gather in many dollars before the summer has ended. 

 With strawberries, blueberries, raspberries, dewberries, wild 

 cherries and cranberries plentiful in the forests of Northern 

 Minnesota, the winter's larder will be well supplied. 



The State Forestry Board met at Ely, Minn., July 18th. 

 The full board was present, with the exception of Dean A. F. 

 Woods and Hon. John Lind. Accompanied by State Senator 

 Cheadle, C. A. Congdon, L. B. Arnold, A. C. LeDuc, Mr. Par- 

 dee, W. T. Cox, state forester and D. P. Tierney, his assistant, 

 the board made a trip to the State Forest on Burntside Lake. 

 The party went in automobiles and crossed Burntside Lake 

 in canoes, furnished by the State Forest Service and the 

 United States Forest Service. The land was made near the 

 end of the north arm and the whole party crossed the portage 

 to Slim Lake. From the top of the hill there a very exten- 

 sive view was obtained of Burntside Lake and of all the 

 country between that and Long Lake. 



The trip took the board into a district which is primarily 

 a forest country. The prevalence of rock makes a large per 

 cent of it unfit for agriculture. 



Marsh Island, near New Orleans, La., containing approxi- 

 mately 74,000 acres, has been bought by E. A. Mcllhenny of 

 Avery Island, and will be added to 13,000 acres deeded a few 

 months ago to Louisiana to form a great preserve for wild 

 birds. The purchase price was $146,000. 



It is planned to establish a chain of preserves for wild 

 birds in the Mississippi valley. 



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