Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 October 1889 — Novel Way of Preserving Venison. [ARTICLE]

Novel Way of Preserving Venison.

A young friend of mine, who has for several y§ars each summer gone wi th his father on a camping trip on the south shore of Lake Superior, tells me of a novel expedient they often employed of preserving their venison in warm weather, says a -writer. In that country some of the streams are flanked by long rows of sand-hills, whose composition is so loose that they shift about continually under a wind "of any force. In the winter time the high winds often blow the sand over the great snow banks which lie upon the north side of the sand dunes, covering up the snow to a depth of several feet. The snow is thus kept unmelted, and even in the middle of summer one can dig down through the sand to it and find the best imaginable sort of a natural refrigerator. In this way, said my young friend, they buried their deer and trout, and found they kept entirely fresh so long as they cared to leave them. This is certainly a new instance of nature’s bountifulness with the sportsman.