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whites amount to 8,888, and those by negro and non-whites 36. The 

 reason for the large number of foreign-born whites on farms is undoubt- 

 edly due to the opportunity offered the men to work in the mines or 

 lumber camps after their arrival in this country. Many of them had 

 a natural liking for agriculture from habits acquired in the old country, 

 and after saving a little money decided that a better opportunity was 

 offered them in the development of a farm, which they themselves could 

 own and on which they could rear and feed their families. 



CROP PRODUCTION. 



The total crop area, according to the report of the 1920 Census, was 

 345,187 acres, exclusive of 117,730 acres in pasture. This area is di- 

 vided as follows: 67,628 acres in oats; 18,433 acres in wheat; 9,846 in 

 barley; 4,624 in rye; 605 in buckwheat; 222 in navy beans; 6,718 acres 

 in peas; 250,540 acres of hay; 17,401 acres of potatoes; 962 acres of other 

 vegetables; and 697 acres of sugar beets. 



Th£ total value of all crops amounts to |14,598,976, divided as fol- 

 lows: cereals, $2,276,978; other grains and seeds, |291,542; hay and 

 forage, |7,395,655; vegetables, |4,213,254; fruit, |308,860; and all other 

 crops, 191,039. 



The above figures are of interest in that they show the principal crops 

 and the adaptability of this section to a certain type of agriculture. 

 The main crops in their order of importance are: hay, potatoes, grain 

 and fruit. 



The acreage of corn for grain totals 1,000 acres and for forage pur- 

 poses 2,858 acres, which shows that this, the most important crop in 

 the country farther south, has not become widely used or adapted to this 

 isection of the iState. 



Hay constitutes the largest single item, timothy and clover mixed 

 constituting by far the largest area, or 206,561 acres. Timothy alone 

 takes 20,747; and clover alone 2,731 acres. The alfalfa acreage amounts 

 to 327 acres. 



Sugar beets are reported from Menominee and Delta counties. The 

 Upper Peninsula has other areas suited to sugar beet production, and 

 these combined with the favorable climatic conditions, will allow the de- 

 velopment of this crop in a suitable rotation. 



The average crop yield per acre as estimated by the U. S. Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture and Bureau of Markets, Crop Estimates, gives the 

 following averages for a twelve-year period, 1910 to 1921, inclusive: 



