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duction for Michigan was ascertained by the federal 

 census to be 14,218,708 quarts. Of this total, Berrien 

 County produced more than three million. Van Buren 

 County more than one million, and Wayne County, 

 1,425,320 quarts. These counties have excellent 

 markets for this fruit close at hand. The raspberry 

 output of the State in the year was 8,381,943 quarts, 

 with Berrien County here leading also with its crop 

 of 2,849,794 quarts, and with Sanilac also a heavy 

 producer. While in the Upper Peninsula the com- 

 mercial berry crop is small, there is a remarkable 

 in-gathering of the wild red raspberry, blueberry, 

 and "thimble-berry," a portion of which is con- 

 sumed locally while thousands of crates are sent to 

 Chicago and other southern urljan markets during 

 the season. The State's cherry crop in 1909 is rep- 

 resented by 338,945 bushels, with Grand Traverse 

 County's 40,000 bushels leading and with large out- 

 puts from Allegan, Benzie, Berrien and Oceana, all 

 on the Lake Michigan shore. 



NUTS 



Among the indigenous forest trees of Michigan 

 were many bearing edible nuts, such as the hickory, 

 oak, butternut, walnut, beech, and the hazel-busli. 

 While nut-growing forms no part of systematic agri- 

 culture in the State, the natural output has a place 

 in the domestic economy of the southern peninsula 

 and of the southern counties of the northern penin- 

 sula, where, near the Lake Michigan shore, the 



