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other forase crops, wliich can be depended upon to 

 furnish excellent pastures and meadows. .... The 

 better types of soils are naturally seeded to June 

 grass, alsike clover and timothy. The heavier loams, 

 clay loams and clays, where second-growth is not 

 too thick, carry good pastures throughout the sum- 

 mer seasons. On the lighter loams, the pasture 

 tends to dry up and run short. The light pine and 

 hardwood soils and jack-pine plains are of little 

 value for grazing purposes, except for a very brief 

 period in late spring and early summer, when they 

 offer light grazing. 



"After clearing, the loams, clay loams and clay 

 can be depended upon to produce excellent crops of 

 rye, barley, oats, spring wheat, root crops, peas and 

 oats, and buckwheat. Winter wheat is gaining rap- 

 idly in acreage, and bids fair to become a dependable 

 crop on adapted soils. 



"Corn can be depended upon on the above-named 

 soils for silage purposes in the lower part of Meno- 

 minee and Delta counties, throughout the northern 

 part of the Lower Peninsula and along the southern 

 shore on adapted soils of the Upper Peninsula. Early 

 varieties are dependable for grain, but these regions 

 cannot be termed 'corn lands' in the sense that corn 

 can compete with barley or oats as a feed grain. 



"The well-drained loams and sandy loams of north- 

 ern Michigan, in general, are splendidly adapted to 

 potatoes. It is well within the realm of possibility 

 that northern Michigan will become one of the great- 

 est centers of potato production in the United States. 



