488 



INDEX 



Population, table of. 466 

 urimn and rural. 468 



Porcupino Mountains, 8 



Portage Lako, canals of, 11 

 red stone. 103 



Port Huron, macliinorv manu- 

 factured at, 312 



Post office, and rural life, 255 



Posts. 81, 82 



early trading, 117 



Potatoes. 193 



on northern soils, 420 



Pottery, 113 



Poultry, 232 



Power, electric, furnished hy 

 municipalities, 251, 252 



Poyseor. Rev. W., as farmer, 

 379 



Prairies. 39. 40 



Preachers, in agriculture, 379 

 salaries of. 378 



Precipitation, 25 



Prices, early, 239 



Primary school interest fund, 

 348, 349 



Products, farm, value of, 445 



Project, clul), 369 



Pul)lic Domain Commission, 

 394, 400, 401 



Puritanism in ^Michigan, 159 

 Sunday and, 159 



Q 



Quakers, 377, 378 

 Quarantine, 387 



R 



Railroads, 241, 242 

 charters, 242 

 Chicago and New York 



reached by, 244 

 Detroit, firand TIaven and 



Milwaukee. 248 

 early protects for, 243 

 effect of. 244 

 electric. 250 

 (irand Trunk. 248 

 history. 242 

 in Tapper Peninsula. 248, 



240 

 Michigan Central, effect of, 



247 



Railroads, Pere Marquette, 248 



rates. 244 



sale of. 244 



state and, 244 



statistics of, 250 



to Detroit, 261 

 Rainfall, 25, 26 

 Raspberry, 207 

 Rate-bill. 348 



freight, by Great Lakes, 

 255 



railroad. 244, 245 

 Rat-trap, 334 

 Red Cross, rural work of, 330, 



331 

 Reforestation, 438 

 Reindeer, 120 

 Religious communities, 377 

 Reports, local agricultural, 



392 

 Reptiles, 115 

 Rivers, 13 



dams on, 15 



drainage basins of, 14 



flow of, 15 



improvement of, 240 



navigable, 235 



of Lake Superior, 51 



transportation on. 15 

 Roads, classes of. 406, 407 



county system of, 404 



early." 235, 238. 239 



improvement of, 240 



maintenance, 405 



material for construction of, 

 407 



of Michigan, 403 



private, 180 



repair tax, 403 



stage routes, 240, 241 



state, 405 



taxes. 403 



territorial and state, 240 



to Detroit. 262 



trunk-line, 405 

 Ropes Cold Mine, 98 

 Roscommon County, forest 

 reserves in, 397 



"Rosen," 190, 214 

 Rotation, crop, on northern 



farms, 433. 434 

 Roth, Filbert, Forestry War- 

 den, 398 

 Rye. 190 



Finns and. 191 



"Rosen," 190, 214 



