J. H. Worst, president of the North Dakota agricultural col- 

 lege opened the fourteenth annual meeting of the tri-state 

 grain growers' convention at Fargo, January 14, with an ex- 

 position of his plan of building tree hedges on each section 

 line east and west across the state to stop hailstorms in sum- 

 mer and snowstorms in winter. 



"North Dakota is noted for a severe climate," said Dr. 

 Worst, "whether it deserves all that has been said about it is 

 not to be discussed here. We can improve that climate by 

 planting trees on each section line of the state. When that 

 is done there will be no excuse for crop failures in North 

 Dakota." 



A large number of complaints about the malicious cutting 

 of timber on state and mining company lands have been made 

 at Virginia, Minn., and a strong effort is being made to put a 

 stop to the proctice. 



Charles West of Virginia was arraigned in the municipal 

 court charged with "malicious mischief," and the evidence 

 tended to show that he had cut timber from the Jennings 

 Mining Company's land near Mud Lake. 



"Duluth is a Northern city one does not need the evidence 

 of the high-towering ski-slide that surmounts its highest hill 

 to realize that but alfalfa grows its three annual crops on 

 the Jean Duluth farm, and, if berries are a bit late in ripen- 

 ing, they find no competitors in the market. A dozen trout 

 brooks run from the hill's through the city into Lake Superior. 

 One may sit in his garden and catch a rainbow trout and 

 toss it through the kitchen window without stirring from his 

 seat. As I came back from the Jean Duluth farm with Mr. 

 Hostetter, wild rabbits scurried across the city streets in 

 front of our car and hid in the dense woods on either side. 

 Hardly a winter passes without a deer being shot inside the 

 city limits, and a year or two ago a bear was killed less than 

 a mile from the business center. So close to the primitive 

 has Duluth remained, content to take toll of passing com- 

 merce without herself adding to the world's wealth. The 

 new community spirit that the movement for farm develop- 



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