DEPARTMENT REPORTS. 



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lowed by trying to get the farmer, after he sows only clean seed, to sow 

 pure varieties of all grains. 



Following is a list of places visited: 



Rexton 



Garnet 



Gilchrist 



Engadine 



Gould City.... 



White Dale 



Manistique. . . . 



Ensign 



Cooks Mills. . . 

 Isabella 



Rapid River . . . 



Gladstone 



Dafter 



Kinross 



Rudyard 



Dryburg 



Hyde 



Bark River. . . . 



Wilson 



Nadeau 



Carney 



Daggett 



Stephenson . . . . 



Ingalls 



Wallace 



Birch Creek . . , 



Hermansville . 



Waucedah 



Norway 



Iron Alountain 

 Crystal Falls . . 

 Iron River. . . , 



Beechwood . . . 

 Watersmeet . . , 

 Marenisco. ... 



Wakefield 



Bessemer 



Ironwood. . . . 



Attend- 

 ance. 



60 

 75 

 40 

 175 

 70 



100 

 15 



125 

 90 

 85 



8 



80 



50 



50 



200 



60 

 45 



120 

 75 



125 



150 

 300 

 190 

 100 

 200 

 150 



150 

 175 



75 

 150 

 100 



60 



60 

 90 

 100 

 125 

 200 

 250 



Montreal 



Bergland 



Topaz 



Ewen 



Bruce Crossing . . 



Paynesville 



Agate 



Trout Creek 



Kenton 



Sidnaw 



"W^atton 



Covington 



Nisula 



Pelkie 



Bellaire 



Chassell 



Arnheim 



Keweenaw Bay . 



Baraga 



L' Anse 



Herman 



Michigamme. . . 



Champion 



Clarksburg 



McMillan 



Newberry 



Strongs 



Brimley 



Sault Ste. Marie 



Trout Lake 



Moran 



St. Ignace 



Mangum 



Skandia 



Rumley 



Chatham 



Munising 



Attend- 

 ance. 



60 

 100 

 125 

 160 

 100 



200 



95 



125 



200 



75 



125 

 250 

 150 

 250 

 30 



50 



27 



100 



200 



125 



50 

 200 

 175 



65 

 200 



225 

 50 



125 

 30 

 20 



150 



135 

 40 

 75 

 75 



155 

 50 



The work of the Potato Specialist and of the county agents on po- 

 tatoes has been very gratifying. Fully fifty per cent of the growers are 

 attempting to standardize the varieties and at many shipping points not 

 more than three varieties of potatoes are grown. 



Farmers' Institutes were held in Marquette, Alger, Chippewa, Delta, 

 Irion, Menominee, Dickinson, Gogebic, Houghton and Ontonagon coun- 

 ties, under the supervision of the Extension Specialists and county 

 agents. 



Through the efforts of our extension workers the Cloverland Potato 

 Congress was held in Marquette with a splendid attendance of potato 

 growers from every county in the Upper Peninsula. 



Two conferences of the county agents in the Upper Peninsula were 

 held during the year; one at Marquette, July 12-13, 1915; one at Crystal 

 Falls, October 13-14, 1915. 



Three counties have organized Farm Bureaus and employed county 



