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among the flint corns, there were reported Smut-nose, 

 King Philip, Yellow, and White.^ 



The census of 1910 showed a production of 

 52,906,812 hushels of corn. The counties yielding 

 more than 1,000,000 bushels were Allegan, Barry, 

 Berrien, Branch, Calhoun, Cass, Eaton, Gratiot, 

 Hillsdale, Ingham, Ionia, Jackson, Kalamazoo, Kent, 

 Lenawee, Livingston, Macomb, Monroe, Oakland, 

 Saginaw, St. Joseph, Shiawassee, Tuscola, Van 

 Buren, Washtenaw ajul Wayne. The premier corn 

 county was Lenawee with a yield 'of 3,053,197 

 bushels. It will be observed that these are all south- 

 ern and the oldest agricultural counties in the State. 

 By 1920 the yield had advanced to 65,000,000 bushels, 

 at the rate of 40 bushels an acre. In that year 34 

 per cent of the State's acreage went into ensilage, the 

 average yield being 7.8 tons to the acre. The quality 

 of the crop in 1920 was rated at 92 per cent, 15 per 

 cent better than the ten-year average.^ 



Wheat and corn among the grains figure largest 

 in the calculations of Michigan farmers, but all 

 standard species grown in northern latitudes should 

 be produced on the farms of the State, most of them 

 on any farm in any season. In 1920, 9,702,000 

 bushels of rye were grown on 660,000 acres. By this 

 date a hardy prolific variety of rye, known as 

 "Eosen," and established by the Michigan Agricul- 

 tural College, was rapidly making its way into popu- 

 lar favor. "Rosen rye," writes F. A. Spragg, plant- 



•"Rept. Mich. Bd. Agr.," 1906, 295. 



2 "Crop Kept, for Mich.," Lansing, Nov., 1920. 



