154 STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE 



A road ruiii? north and soutli alonpr the east line of tlio farm. The area? cleared 

 are adjacent to this road. South of the creek, and includinjr part of the nmck bed 

 which borders tlie stream, two acres and a half have been cleared and used for the 

 celery beds and ]>art of the turnips and other vegetables. South of this cleared 

 space, and adjoininfr it, an area on the first terrace four hundred feet long by two 

 hundred fifty wide has also been cleared and set out with strawberries and other 

 small fruits, and used for vegetable experiments. On this terrace the apple and 

 other fruit trees have been heeled in and some plots of cereals grown. 



North of the creek the site for the buildings was located on a terrace some fifty feet 

 liigher than the creek and four hundred fifty feet north of it. North of this building 

 site an area of four acres, approximately, was cleared early in the sjjring. and upon 

 this four acres were carried on the experiments with potatoes, corn and most of the 

 cereals. .Additional areas have been cleared north and west of these plots. 



It would be manifestly out of place in a report of this kind to go into a detailed 

 description of the agricultural resources of the Upper Peninsula. Of the fifty-eight 

 thousand, nine hundred fifteen square miles constituting the area of the State, ap- 

 proximately two-fifths is included within the boundaries of the broad triangle of the 

 Upper Peninsula. Of this large area no small proportion is first-class farming land, 

 well adapted by soil fertility and climatic conditions to the growing of root crojjs, 

 small fruits, stone fruits, apples, oats, barley, wheat, the grasses and clover. The 

 proximity of the great mining districts and the lumber camps insures a regular and 

 active market. High prices for -agricultural i)roducts are certain for many years 

 to come. 



The great variety of soils, from the heavy clays and clay loams of Chippewa 

 county, the muck beds and black prairie soils about Rudyard, Newberry and scattered 

 over all parts of the peninsula, to the rich loams of Delta and Menominee counties 

 insures a satisfactory farm to the seeker, no matter what his choice of soil may 

 be. A brief statement concerning the soils of the Upper Peninsula, kindly furnished 

 by the State r4eologist. A. C. Lane, and included in this bulletin, gives a comprehensive 

 view of the soil conditions obtaining north of the straits. 



