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INDEX 



lliggins T.akc, tree nursery at, 



399 

 High Island, 454 



House of David and, 37.S 

 Highway Department, State, 

 404. 40.") 



improvement tax. 403 

 Hoar, .Tames, quoted, 1.58 

 Holmes, J. C, horticulturalist, 



203 

 "Holy Corners," 378 

 Home demonstration agent, 



365, 366 

 Homestead Law, Michigan, 



151 

 Honey, distribution, 233 



plants Yielding. 233 



statistics, 232 

 Horses. 227 



history, 227 



pure-bred. 220 



statistics. 228 



varieties, 227, 228 

 Horticultural Society, Michi- 

 gan State, 345 

 Houghton, Douglass, State 

 Geologist, 86 



his work. 87 

 Houses, pioneer, 316, 318 



vacant farm, 458 

 Hul)am, as soil-liuilder, 429 

 Hubbard. Bela. quoted. 319 

 Huller. clover. 334. 335 

 Humus, destruction of. 47 

 Huron Mountains, 8 

 Hygiene, bureau of, 324 



Imlay Channel, 7 

 Immigration Commissioner, 



149, 150, 383 

 Implements, at Washtenaw 

 County Fair, 335 

 early, 311 

 farm. 308 

 historv of, 308 

 list of; 311 

 manufacture of. .311 

 not manufactured in Upper 

 Peninsula. 314 

 Improved lands, southern 



counties, 449 

 Income, on northern farms. 

 432 



Incorporation, act of 1903, 



288, 289 

 Indians. 54 



and whites. 153 



as farmers. 153 



corn of. 153 



distribution of, 153 



garden-beds of, 154 



government and. 154 



of Michigan, 152 



opinions of, 154 



school for, 154 



statistics, 152 



treaties with, 127 



tribes. 152 

 Insanity, in rural communi- 

 ties, 329 

 Inspection, of farm products, 

 456, 457 



of wool, 457 

 Insurance. Grange, 339 

 Internal improvements, 242 

 Interurban railways, 250 



farmers and. 251 



health work on, 327, 328 

 Iron, analyses of, 95, 96 



bog, 92. 96 



charcoal. 93 



deposits of. 91 



discovery of. 87 



furnaces. 92 



history of. 91 



iron, kinds of, 95 



on Gogebic Range, 94 



on Marquette Range, 93, 94 



on Menominee Range, 94 



quality of, 94 



reserves, 96 



situation of, 96 



statistics, 95 



transportation. 92 

 Islands, agriculture on, 452, 



453 

 Isle Royale. 452 



moose on. 120 

 Israelite House of David, 378 



Jackson, manufacture of im- 

 plements at, 312 

 settlement of, 43 

 JefEery, J. A., quoted, 40 



Kalamazoo, settlement of, 43 

 Kedzie, R. C, quoted, 290, 320 



