WITH the vanishing of forests in many portions of the 

 state and the coming of cattle, the succulent blueberry 

 has departed. Counties that once shipped thousands 

 of barrels of blueberries in one day now ship scarcely one 

 hundred boxes during the season. 



But the blueberry is not absolutely vanishing from Minne- 

 sota. There are still blueberries to be found but they are 

 further' north. The jack pine regions in the extreme north- 

 ern part of the state abound in blueberries. The crop this 

 year has been good and thousands of crates have been shipped 

 from Bemidji, Cass Lake, Brainerd and other stations. 



Berries on Non-Agricultural Land. 



Where there is land that is unfit for agricultural or grazing, 

 there the blueberries will be found. 



Pine county was at one time the banner blueberry county 

 in Minnesota. In 1890 and 1891, the crop of blueberries in 

 this county in an area about three miles wide and 20 miles 

 long was enormous. Business men turned their attention to 

 the harvest of blueberries. The superintendent of one of the 

 lumbering mills, employed 400 Chippewa Indians from the 

 Vermillion lake country to come down and pick berries. A 

 number of the business men of Willow River, Rutledge and 

 other points are said to have made small fortunes in supply- 

 ing the wants of his tribe of Indians in the way of "fire 

 water." 



Enormous Shipments. 



For six weeks there was shipped from Willow River 600 

 bushels of berries. From Moose Lake there were 200 bushels; 

 from Sturgeon Lake there were 400 boxes and from Rutledge, 

 200 boxes. 



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