490 



INDEX 



Soo Line Railroad, 250 



Sorghum. 20. 291 



Soutti Haven Fruit Exchange 



described. 2(iy 

 Spalding, quoted, 04 

 Spearmint, 209 

 Spinning, home, 304 



wheels, used by Finns, 169 

 Spragg, F. A., plant-breeder, 



216 

 Springs, 57 



mineral. 107 

 Spruce, 78 

 Squirrels, 120 

 Stage routes, 240, 241 

 State Board of Agriculture, 

 383 

 Board of Control of Voca- 

 tional Education, 359 

 Board of Education, Michi- 

 gan Agricultural Col- 

 lege under, 361 

 Board of Health. 324 

 Forester. 400 

 Forests, 398, 401 

 Game, Fish and Forest Fire 

 Commissioner, 394, 399 

 Highway Commissioner, 404 

 Statistics, agricultural, 384, 



392 

 Steadman, T. P., quoted, 174, 



175 

 Steamers on Great Lakes, 241 

 Steamship lines, to Detroit, 



261 

 Stone, for Viuilding, 102 

 Strang, "King," 377 

 Strawberry, 200 

 Streams, length of. 123 

 StumiJ-pullers. manufactured 



at Escanaba, 434, 435 

 Sturgeon River Swamp, utili- 

 zation of, 54 

 Sugar, bouutv for production 

 of. 290 

 companies, and settlement, 



150 

 maple, 301-304 

 Sugar Beet News and North- 

 western Farmer, The, 

 374 

 Sugar-beets in northern lati- 

 tudes, 21 

 on muck lands, 56, 213 

 seed, 199 

 Sunday, Michigan and, 159 



Sunflowers as ensilage, 430 

 Sunlight at various latitudes, 



21 

 Sunshine, 24 



Supervisors, crop reports of, 

 392 



township, 160 

 Survey, land, 128, 129, 130 



soil, 439 

 Surveyor, life of, 131 

 Swamp lands, drainage of, 

 414 



milkweed, 10 

 Swine, 229 



breeds of, 221, 229 



statistics, 229 



T 



Tanks, manufacture of, 79 

 Taquamenon Swamp, celery 



grown on, 54 

 Taxes, arrears of, 437 



for highways, 403 

 Tax sales. 437 

 Teacherages, 356 

 Telephones, Michigan, 256 

 on farms, 459 

 rural, 256 

 statistics, 256 

 Temperature, Great Lakes 

 and. 17 

 of northern and southern 

 Michigan. _22 

 Tenancy, 146, 147 

 "Thimble-berry," 202 

 Thresiier. Birdsell, 334, 335 

 Threshers, manufacture of, 



312 

 Threshing, grain, 310 

 machine, early, 310 

 Tile. 113 

 Timber, kinds of, 71 



standing. 71 , o.c 



Time, of railroad travel, 246 

 Topography. 5 



effects on agriculture, 8 

 of central counties, 44 

 Tornadoes. 29, 30 

 Town-meeting. 160 

 Township board. 161 



government, 161 

 Tractors, on Michigan farms, 



459 

 Trails, 237 



