Grapples Hard to Get. 



It is the same story with the crappie. The spawn cannot 

 be taken from the mother. Of course, it is easier to get 

 crappie fry than bass fry for there are thousands of lakes in 

 the state where the crappies are almost as plentiful as the 

 drops of water. Also there is no such demand for crappie 

 fry as for bass fry for the fisherman does love to snare that 

 gamey bass, and he considers crappie fishing somewhat be- 

 neath his skill and dignity. 



But the time may come when the crappie will be scarce in 

 lakes where he now abounds for the state has found no way 

 to assist nature in reproducing his kind. 



With brook trout, most palatable of fish, artificial aid to 

 reproduction is as easy as with the wall-eyed pike. The 

 female yields up the spawn readily and the commission each 

 year collects a large quantity of eggs, hatches them, and 

 ships the fry to a thousand streams. 



This peep into man's attempts to improve on nature may 

 easily give the fisherman an insight into the future of Min- 

 nesota waters. Wall-eyed pike and brook trout will always 

 abound, but the bass must be religiously conserved. In a 

 lesser degree, this is true also of the crappie. 



A THRILLING ESCAPE. 



Newspaper reports from International Falls state that Clyde 

 Buell of Minneapolis, a university student employed by a lumber 

 company, was rescued from drowning, by catching hold of the 

 antlers of a big bull moose. The reports say that young Buell 

 ^vas out on a raft of logs when one of the logs on which he was 

 standing broke away. He was carried down the stream for quite 

 a ways before he saw Mr. Moose swimming. According to the 

 reports he was safely towed to shore. Many unusual things hap- 

 pen in the north country. This was one of them if the newspaper 

 report is correct. 



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