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tion through the expensive experience of locating on the isolated 

 lands of the far west and Canada. It is one thing to be able to 

 raise something to sell, and it is quite another thing to sell it. 



No lands in any part of the world are more favored in the 

 matter of good markets than those of Marinette County. With 

 direct railway and water lines in every direction the products of 

 this locality can within a few hours reach more than half the 

 population of this country. 



Should the time ever come when the farm products raised in 

 tliis county were in excess of the local needs we have immediately 

 to the north of us more than half a million consumers in the copper 

 and iron mining districts, who do not produce hardly any of their 

 food. They pay higher prices than the Chicago market, and even 

 today we are shipping great quantities of food products to this 

 mining country because of the very high prices which the markets 

 there are willing to pay. 



Marinette County is absolutely the nearest developed farming 

 locality to this great northern market which stands ready at all 

 times to take any food surplus which the Marinette County farmer 

 may have to offer. 



CLOVER. It i s a recognized fact today that there is something 

 lacking in any agricultural locality where clover can- 

 not be grown successfully. It is recognized that a rotation of crops 

 is necessary to keep up the fertility of any soil and produce the 

 greatest profits each year. Clover is, by all odds, one of the most 

 important crops in any system of rotation, and where clover cannot 

 be grown successfully nothing can take its place except the contin- 

 ued use of very expensive commercial fertilizers. The cost of 

 commercial fertilizers has been constantly increasing every year, 

 the price today being almost prohibitive to many farmers. 



There is no clover country to equal Marinette County anywhere 

 between Boston Harbor and the Golden Gate. You can scatter 

 clover seed from March to August in oats, peas, fodder corn, and 

 even on the unbroken wild land among the brush, and never fail 

 in getting a stand. 



THE GREAT NITROGEN GATHERER. The value of nitrogen 



contained in the air, if 



computed on the basis of the price paid per pound in commercial 

 fertilizers would be about $11,000,000 for every acre of the earth's 

 sin-face. Marinette County, Wisconsin, has the most favorable 

 climatic conditions for the growth of clover, sweet clover, alfalfa, 

 soy beans, peas, and all legume crops that have the faculty of taking 

 this nitrogen from the air and storing it in the ground where the 

 farmer will realize the benefit from it. 



