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The soils available for fruit growing are rather well distributed. 

 The soils that are capable of producing farm crops generally, will pro- 

 duce fruit providing the location is right. 



Apples generally do well on the clay loams and sandy loam soils. 

 Cherries and plums do best on the sandy loams and sandy soils. Straw- 

 berries are being grown on all classes of soils from the heavy clays to 

 the lighter sands. (The Jack pine soils are not included in this classi- 

 fication of sand soils.) 



Fruit growing in the Upper Peninsula is just beginning to develop. 

 The growers giving proper attention to the selection of a location, proper 

 fertilization and care, selection of proper varieties and who are spray- 

 ing for insects and diseases common to fruit in this section are pro- 

 ducing good crops of fruit of fine quality. The varieties found to be 

 successfully grown over the Upper Peninsula generally are: 



Apples : Summer varieties — Yellow Transparent and Duchess. 



Fall varieties — Wealthy, Mcintosh, Fameuse (Snow), 

 (Northwestern Greening, Alexander and Wolf River, 

 hardy but poor quality). 

 Crab Apples : Hj^slop and Transcendent. 



Plums: Burbank, Lombards, Bradshaw. 



Cherries: Montmorency, Early Richmond. 



Currants : London Market, Perfection, Wilder. 



Gooseberries : Downing. 



Raspberries: Cuthbert, King. 



Blackberries : Eldorado. 



Strawberries: Senator Dunlap, Gibson, Aroma, Champion (Ever- 

 bearing) . 



Truck Crops. 



In commercial truck growing three factors are of prime importance: 



(1) location with respect to market, (2) adaptation to climatic con- 

 ditions, (3) adaptation to soil types. 



Location: Many of our truck crops, such as canning peas, cucum- 

 bers, etc., are dependent on a market close to home. That is, these 

 crops are produced for a canning factory or pickling plant in a well- 

 defined area surrounding such a factory. Celery, onions, head lettuce 

 and other truck crops of this nature can be produced without special 

 regard to location of the market, yet they must have a dependable mar- 

 ket and dependable transportation facilities in getting to that market. 



Climate: The climate of the Upper Peninsula is very well suited 

 to the production of many of our important truck crops. This is 

 especially true of certain areas adjacent to the Great Lakes. The 

 Garden Peninsula in Delta county is probably one of the finest loca- 

 tions with respect to climatic adaptations to truck crops. 



Soil Types: With the wide range in soil types found in the Upper 

 Peninsula it is possible to locate suitable soils for truck growing in 

 most any section of the territory. The truck areas are usually located 

 with reference to market conditions and not to soil types. The celery 

 gardens at Newberry are an exception; they are located with reference 

 to soil type and transportation facilities to market. The canning peas, 



Information on pruning, spraying, planting, fertilization, etc., can be obtained in detail 

 from *he Horticultural lDe.pt., Michigan Agricultural College, Bast Lansing, (Michigan. 



