480 STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



Special Bulletiu No. 11 G. 



FOREWORD 



The purpose of this bulletin is to bring together under one cover, as 

 far as possible, all available data on the agriculture of the Upper 

 Peninsula of Michigan. This portion of the State is undeveloped agri- 

 culturally, and it is important that all facts pertaining to this essential 

 industry be compiled in a convenient form for the business man, the 

 teacher, the prospective settler, and the farmer already engaged in 

 agriculture. 



The data presented, unless otherwise stated, were taken from the 

 Fourteenth United States Census Report (1920). The balance of the 

 information was obtained from the experimental data of the Upper 

 Peninsula Experiment Station, at Chatham, Michigan; from the United 

 States Weather Bureau; and from observations and experiments con- 

 ducted by county agricultural agents, extension specialists, or other 

 representatives of the Michigan Agricultural College. 



The information is offered for the purpose of stimulating a more 

 general and complete understanding of the Upper Peninsula and its 

 agricultural development and possibilities. 



J. W. WESTON 



