ment has inspired is cutting off the forest, driving the deer 

 and the bear back toward Canada, and laying the foundation 

 for a bigger and better Duluth, to be the metropolis in its own 

 right of a rich and happy land of fertile farms. 



Wise business men everywhere are seeing the American 

 problem in this new light of agriculture. The bankers and 

 business men of North Dakota are trying, through their Bet- 

 ter farming Association, to develop the agricultural resources 

 of an entire state, and so, in a lesser degree and on a smaller 

 scale, such towns as Delavan, Wis., are trying, through the 

 co-operation of their business men, to build up their adjacent 

 rural communities. Frank P. Stockbridge in World's Work. 



John Jackson, the Winnibigoshish farmer who has the larg- 

 est farm in the Western Itasca county, has .now about 120 

 acres under cultivation without a stump to hinder him, and 

 he has a nice herd of stock, pigs and sheep and a threshing 

 machine. He says the only things he lacks now are roads 

 and markets. Mr. Jackson complains that h has no school 

 near his place, the school board failing to replace the teacher 

 at his school since the resignation of the teacher who was 

 there for a time this term. 



A bulletin issued February 1 by the weather bureau at 

 Duluth said: "In the Great Lakes region some additional ice 

 formed on Lake Superior and over Lake Michigan, but in 

 the remaining lakes the harbors are nearly everywhere en- 

 tirely free of ice. At the same period last year the rivers and 

 lakes throughout all Northern districts were heavily covered 

 with ice and the harbors of the Great Lakes were generally 

 entirely closed and the lakes themselves covered with the 

 heavist ice reported in years." 



Reports from stations show that at Duluth on January 27, 

 fhere were six inches of snow and twenty inches of ice. At 

 the Soo there were six inches of snow and nine inches of ice; 

 at Ashland there were ten inches of snow and no ice; at 

 Houghton there were twenty-three inches of snow and 11.5 

 inches of ice; and at Marquette there were five inches of 

 snow and no ice. 



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