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THE FORESTER. 



September, 



but I am convinced the fall is the best 

 time. The great trouble in raising ever- 

 greens is their damping off in hot weather. 

 I have had hundreds of thousands mown 

 clown even under the most approved shade. 

 " Some things led me to believe the fall 

 was the best time. In the mountains the 

 squirrels have dropped cones in the water, 

 where they have remained all winter, and 

 sprouted in the spring. It occurred to me 

 that if we could give our seedlings an 

 earlier start we might avoid the damping 

 off. This trouble occurs before the second 

 set of leaves is formed. So last fall I 

 planted Ponderosa Pine and Douglas 

 Spruce. They were up the first thing this 

 spring, and commenced growing and were 

 vigorous enough to resist damping off 

 when the weather grew hot. My fall- 

 planted seedlings are twice the size of 

 spring-planted ones. I shall make fuller 

 experiments with other kinds. I think 

 with most of them we shall have a better 

 stand and finer plants." 



Fish and Game 

 in the Park. 



A " Statement of 

 Facts " issued by the 

 Minnesota Park Asso- 

 ciation, gives the following summary of 

 the animal life now found in the region 

 of the proposed park : 



" The waters contain the following 

 kinds of fish : great northern pike, muskal- 

 longe, black bass, wall-eyed pike, pickerel, 

 lake trout, white fish, silver bass, croppies, 

 rock bass and perch. 



" The big game in the forests are : 

 moose, caribou, deer and bear in large 

 numbers, with a few elk. 



" Smaller game are wolves, foxes, mink, 

 otter, squirrels and other smaller wild 

 animals found in other parts of the coun- 

 try at this latitude. 



The wild fowl consists of nearly every 

 varictv of duck, wild goose, quail, wood- 

 cock, plover, pheasant, grouse and snipe. 



"The game, wild fowl and fish, have 

 been but little disturbed on account of the 

 region's having only recently been made 

 accessible to white men, and because the 

 Indians only kill game and fish sufficient 

 for their daily food. 



" In the three large lakes of Leech, Cass 

 and Winnibigoshish and in the Mississippi, 

 Turtle and Leech Lake river steamers of 

 light draught can ply hundreds of miles ; 

 while in a row boat, it is estimated, one 

 might fish a hundred days over different 

 fishing ground every day and never take 

 his boat out of water for a portage once, 

 except to go around the two government 

 dams at the outlet of Leech and Willibi- 

 goshish lakes." 



" NORFOLK, Va., 



Smoke of Forest Fires A n o- T 2 _r> P n c P 

 off Shore. 



masses of smoke, roll- 

 ing out to sea from burning woods on the 

 North Carolina coast, form at present an 

 unusual menace to navigation, and one 

 that has already cost the loss of one ship. 

 Owing to the impossibility of locating the 

 "new lightship, other vessels may get lost 

 in the foglike smoke, as did the Palestro 

 last week. 



" Trie government coast survey steamer 

 Blake; which left this port on Friday for 

 the purpose of locating the anchorage of 

 lightship No. 69, the new vessel designed 

 to warn the shipping from Diamond 

 Shoals, returned to port to-night. She re- 

 ported that the dense smoky haze off Hat- 

 teras prevented her working, and she there- 

 fore abandoned the delicate mission until 

 the fire shall have abated." Washington 

 Post, August 1 3th. 



FOreSt Rockies in 



Owing partlvto last 

 winter's light "fall of 

 snow, partly to the dry 

 season this summer, the forest fires in Col- 

 orado and other Western States are al- 

 ready unusually common and extensive. 

 The following three clippings from the 

 Denver Republican of August i7th are 

 examples of reports without end : 



" MONTROSE, Colo., Aug. 16. For- 

 est fires are burning fiercely in all direc- 

 tions. To the east there is a big blaze on 

 the Black Mesa, to the north huge vol- 

 umes of smoke go up from the Grand 

 Mesa and the Uncompahgre plateau to 

 the west is ablaze in three different places. 

 Thousands of acres of valuable timber 



