(By W. T. Cox.) 



HOW many of us realize what a state Minnesota is for 

 game? The trouble is that most of us live in Southern 

 or Central Minnesota and have never had occasion to 

 get acquainted with the Northern districts. Most every one 

 is familiar with localities in which migratory fowl are abun- 

 dant when the cool weather of autumn brings them from the 

 North. The wild rice lakes of North-central Minnesota and 

 the mud lakes throuhgout the region where prairie and forest 

 meet, are famed as the haunts of the duck hunter. One of 

 the sights worth traveling a. long v/ay to see is the sudden 

 taking to flight of countless thousands of wild fowl from their 

 feeding grounds or resting places on Bowstring, Mud Lake or 

 Winnebigoshish. These are not, however, the only lakes 

 where such a sight can be witnessed. There are many places 

 in Northwestern and Western Minnesota where ducks of 

 many species congregate in unbelievable numbers for the 

 autumn flight. Geese, too, may be seen by the thousand on 

 certain of our Northwestern lakes, and even in Southwestern 

 Minnesota. The hunter can no longer, even if he would, 

 slaughter them in the disgraceful way so common a few years 

 ago, but he may still obtain a fair number of "honkers" if he 

 is willing to make the effort which is necessary, and deserv- 

 edly necessary, in hunting this splendid game bird. 



Favorable Years For Hatching and Growth of Prairie 

 Chickens. 



Prairie chickens both the pinnated and sharp-tail grouse 

 have been unusually plentiful this fall. Apparently the fact 

 that prairie chickens were reduced some years ago to a point 

 where hunting was scarcely worth while automatically 

 brought about conditions favorable to their increase. Many 



