DEVELOPMENT OF MICHIGAN WASTE LANDS 421 



"One of the problems of feeders, who have recently 

 brought stock into upper Michigan, is to provide for 

 winter feed. Summer pasturage is plentiful. The 

 clearing of more land for the production of barley, 

 rye and oats for grain feed, of silage, root crops and 

 clover and timothy hay, and alfalfa to winter over 

 stock, will make this business much more secure. 



"Certain areas of the Upper Peninsula can pro- 

 duce all crops necessary to sustain a thriving dairy 

 and livestock development. The Ontonagon valley, 

 for instance, a great range of approximately 250,000 

 acres of strong clays and clay loams of high fertility, 

 can produce the grass, grains and winter feed such 

 as roots, peas and oats, or possibly sunflowers and 

 early corn varieties for silage to maintain a profitable 

 dairying or beef -cattle industry. 



"The same condition exists in Chippewa County, 

 which has been a profitably farmed timothy and 

 small grain region for a number of years. Great 

 diversity of crops and proper drainage in both these 

 regions is advisable. 



"In Menominee, Delta, Dickinson and part of Al- 

 ger counties are large areas of loams, and less ex- 

 tensive areas of clay loams, well adapted to farming 

 which have been taken up to a comparatively small 

 extent. Loams and better sandy loams of this region 

 offer excellent conditions for potato growing. The 

 rotation of rye or spring-seeded small grains with 

 clover is well adapted. 



"In the northern part of the Lower Peninsula and 

 the Upper Peninsula considerable development has 



