Wendell, Minn. A small place, with two twenty-room hotels 

 and one livery. Is located in one of the best sections of 

 Minnesota for chickens. 



Excellent reports have been received by a number of the 

 sportsmen from points along the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. 

 Paul line. Hector, Bird Island, Olivia, Renville, Montevideo, 

 Watson, Appleton and Ortonville will all be good for chicken 

 shooting. Up the branch line to Fargo are two splendid 

 points, Graceville and Wheaton, where plenty of chickens are 

 usually found, and for ducks Wheaton is one of the best 

 places in the state. 



At Wheaton there are several hunting lodges that are pre- 

 pared to care for a large number of hunters. They have 

 plenty of boats and good guides." 



The steel towers that support electric pozuer transmission lines 

 are being increasingly used by forest rangers as fire-lookout sta- 

 tions on national forests. With the harnessing of the mountain 

 streams a network of these lines is gradually being woven over 

 the forests and in the absence of other convenient lookouts, the 

 rangers find the steel towers helpful in their fire patrol work. 



In the open yellozv pine forests of Washington and Oregon a 

 collapsible plow is being used in digging fire lines to stop surface 

 fires. The plow can be dismantled and folded into a compact? 

 form, so that it can be packed on horseback, and weighs only 40 

 pounds. When in use, one man with a horse can do the ivork of 

 20 or more men working with shovels. 



. A conservation movement has been started in China, said to 

 be richer in natural resources than any other nation. The Chi- 

 nese use the word "conservancy" instead of conservation. One 

 of their plans for the Hwai river contemplates dredging and til- 

 lage together to control floods. 



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