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rom the bottler of High School "Building. 



Recently a liuudred acres of wooded area 

 ou the banks of Lake Cadillac have been ac- 

 quired by the city and converted into a pub- 

 lic park. As time goes on it is more than 

 likely that a great many residents of ihe 

 cities further south will avail themselves of 

 the natural advantages and resort privileges 

 of these two lakes. In many respects these 

 lakes and the near-by city of Cadillac afford 

 greater advantages to the resort er and pleas- 

 ure-seeker than any other locality in northern 



Michigan. 



AGRICULTURAL. 



Tlie soil of Wexford and contiguous coun- 

 ties is a sand and gravel loam, and the high- 

 est quality exists where hardwoods once 

 abounded. The territory immediately sur- 

 rounding Cadillac and its two lakes originally 

 contained white pine growth and ihis land is 

 not as desirable for agricultural purposes as 

 that a little further from the city. Thus one 

 riding along the main line of the GrMml '^•'••- 



ids and Indiana railway encounters pine 

 stump land which up to this time has not 

 been very largely placed under tillage. The 

 land south of Cadillac is very fertile, as is 

 also that lying along the Ann Arbor road 

 northwest of the city. In fact, there is con- 

 siderable variation in soil in its outlying dis- 

 tricts. 



On the whole, the agricultural possibilities 

 of the lands of Wexford and the counties 

 adjoining it are on a par with those of many 

 sections of Michigan lying north or south. 

 They lend themselves readily to conversion 

 into farms and afford excellent crops. As 

 fast as the region is cleared of its timber 

 it is rapidly being settled by farmers who 

 have purchased anywhere from forty acres to 

 a half section of land at prices varying from 

 $3 to $8 an acre, depending on location and 

 quality of soil. TTiey are building homes for 

 themselves and rearing families to follow in 

 tlieir footsteps. The various farm pictures 



accompanying this article show conclusively 

 that nearly every variety of farm produce can 

 be grown in this region. 



The potato crop yields from 125 to 200 

 bushels an acre, depending on the year, and 

 the price varies from forty to sixty cents a 

 bushel. Wheat grows to good advantage but 

 docs not produce quite as heavy a crop as 

 in sections further south, the average being 

 only from twenty to thirty bushels to the 

 acre. Corn runs about eighty bushels to the 

 acre on an average. Hay tiourishes and shows 

 one and a half to two tons to the acre, sell- 

 ing at from $10 to $1.5 a ton. Oats run from 

 forty to sixty bushels to the acre and sell at 

 from thirty-five to fifty cents. It is a splen- 

 did vegetable region, well adapted to the 

 growing of berries and small fruit, as well as 

 one of the best apple countries in the entire 

 United States; at this writing orchards 

 throughout the entire section are heavily 

 laden with fruit. Except for potatoes, prac- 



ory and Saw fliills, Mitchell Brothers Company at Jennings. 



