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Wisconsin, its opportunities and inducements to home seekers : hundreds of thousands of acres of farming lands : no other locality can equal it
(1895)
Grandest hunting forests and fishing streams in the world
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GRANDEST HUNTING FORESTS AND FISHING - STREAMS IN THE WORLD. Nature has done much to make Wisoonsin attractive to the ., home-seeker in the way of beauties; but, more than that, it)3as - 4 made it the greatest hunting and fibsing paradise in the world.. s- The country is annually visited by thousands who love the. . sport of rod or gun, and nowhere can such a diversified amount - of game and fish be found. Deer are abundant, the forest is thronged with them; and, as the law permits the shooting of - them but twenty days in the year, it will be generations be- fore they are extinct Partridge, ducks, geese and other birds 7 are plentiful, and in season the hunting of them is always good. Northern Wiuconsin is the home of the famous muscalonge% the greatest of all inland-water fisL It is no exceptional thing for twenty-pound or thirty-pound specimens of this unique variety to be captured almost daily. The greatest trout streams of the world are here, and the bass, pike and pickerel fishing is good in -. alm"st any of the innumerable streamk. The State does not allow the wholesale destruction of these prvees gift. which : nature gave to her, and stringent laws protect the slaughter. $ of both fish and game in a way that it will be perpetuated for residents of the State for centuries to come. - Only during oer - _ tan seasons can the game be shot or the fish be caught, and never by those methods which are nspo anike and bar- barous. The farmer in the new part of Wisconsin has to him- self for all time to come, protected by the game and fish laws, . a paradise that is equaled no where. -
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