DURING every season of the year Minnesota proves to 

 the world that it is the paradise for the man who 

 loves the out-of-doors. The sportsmen find within the 

 borders of the North Star State everything they desire. At 

 this season of the year, when the ducks begin their flight 

 southward and the chicken have reached maturity, the sports- 

 man finds Minnesota the "land of opportunity." 



Many Non-residents come. 



Thousands of non-residents who come here at no other time 

 of the year have already invaded the state. A record for the 

 sale of non-resident hunting licenses was made the first week 

 of this month. For the next two months they will come, these 

 nimrods, from all parts of the middle West. They will scatter 

 to every part of the state. The Northern counties will get 

 their share. 



Best Partridge Country. 



When the partridge and quail season opens on October 1, 

 even more of these nimrods will invade the Northern woods. 

 The best partridge country is in the timbered regions north 

 of Pine City and east of the Mississippi river, Quail is found 

 in Central and Southeastern Minnesota. 



Excellent Shooting all Fall. 



There is every indication that there will be excellent shoot- 

 ing all of this fall. Hunters have already reported splendid 

 luck in chicken and duck shooting. 



Conditions were favorable last winter. The end of the sea- 

 son in 1912 still saw many chicken, partridges, and quail. 

 The nesting season was fairly dry, so everything pointed to 

 a good season this year. 



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