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In some parts of upper Wisconsin, in the higher altitudes, we 

 find that the average number of days of growing weather is only 

 100. The United States Climatological map for 1910 shows 

 150 days of growing weather for Marinette, while in some places 

 farther south and west and within 100 miles there were only 94 

 days between frosts. 



ROADS. Marinette County has a good auto road through every 



township, and in all of the townships there are a large 



number of cross roads usually on section lines which can be trav- 

 ersed at all seasons of the year with the heaviest team loads of farm 

 produce. It has been said that a good road is the key to almost 

 every kind of rural progress. Wisconsin, according to government 

 reports, stands third as a good road state, Indiana being first, and 

 Ohio second. It has always been recognized that Marinette County 

 is even more progressive in the matter of good roads than the 

 southern part of the state. People who come to Marinette County 

 from other states in the middle west to look for land always express 

 surprise when they travel over the splendid macadam roads of this 

 locality. 



EVERY SETTLER MUST HAVE A ROAD. One feature of the 



= Wisconsin state law 



which has proved of great benefit is the "force provision," whereby 

 a group of free-holders of any town, by subscribing fifty per cent 

 of the town's share of the estimated cost of improving roads, may 

 thereby force the town to contribute the other fifty per cent. 



WATER. The year book of the Department of Agriculture, states 



that a pound loaf of bread requires two tons of water 



in the making; that is, that amount of water is required in raising 



the wheat, etc., entering into the making of a pound loaf of bread. 



The year book states further that a pound of beef requires 

 from fifteen to twenty tons of water, and that a ton of hay takes 

 500 tons of water from the soil before it is ready for cutting. 



The food required by an adult human being in one year repre- 

 sents an acre of water five feet deep one million and a half 

 gallons. 



If these figures mean anything they mean that farmers ( aght 

 to locate where there is ample rainfall and plenty of good pure 

 water. Marinette County is known throughout the country for its 

 supply of good pure water for man and beast. 



In Marinette County within ten to thirty feet of the surface 

 with a driven well you can get the purest spring water. This water is 

 soft enough to use for washing clothes, and it is consequently not 

 necessary to have a cistern. So much depends upon an unlimited 

 supply of good pure water that this is something you surely must 

 not overlook in choosing the location of a farm home. 



