Could Isaac Walton have fished in the lakes and 

 streams of the Xorthwoods. he might have left us a 

 library instead of just one delightful volume. 



The lakes and streams not only harbor fish for the 

 angler's hook; they hold much food for thought in his 

 leisure time. 



Why are the lake trout rare in Rainy Lake and 

 abundant in Gunflint Lake? Why did not nature 

 plant the fighting muscalonge in all the northern 

 lakes, instead of restricting it to a few spots? Each 

 lake and each river is a problem to itself and a little 

 world for the camper, canoeist and fisherman to 

 explore. 



A Bounty on Tree Planting 



The farmers of Minnesota were not slow to realize 

 it when the government put a bounty on wheat and 

 many of them took immediate advantage of it; and 

 yet they got nothing out of it but the money. Why 

 is it that when the State offers to pay them Fifteen 

 Dollars an acre for planting trees and establishing a 

 grove on their own land, .they keep both the Fifteen 

 Dollars and the grnve. very few of them seem to 

 even know about it, and still fewer take advantage 

 of it.' 



Years ago the legislature passed a law offering 

 Two Dollars and Fifty Cents per acre per year up 

 to a total of ten acres for six consecutive years, to 

 every farmer in certain prairie countiies who would 

 plant out a specified number of trees per acre. The 

 &pecificatioffli were very reasonable and the cost of 

 planting slight. The terms are certainly generous 



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