LANDOLOGY 47 



The state figures for 1916 credit Marinette County with a 

 larger average clover seed production per acre than any other 

 county in the state four bushels. The price last year varied from 

 $10 to $15 per bushel. 



LOCATE IN AN ALFALFA COUNTRY. 



Indications are that even before the dawn of modern civiliza- 

 tion alfalfa was grown extensively, and made up a considerable part 

 of the food, not only of animals, but of mankind. To this day it 

 has continued to be a plant held in high esteem wherever the best 

 agricultural methods are in use. The earliest English colonists 

 brought it to this country, and therefore alfalfa is far from being 

 new in the United States, but it is only within recent years that its 

 culture in this country has been well understood. 



Alfalfa, wherever it is grown successfully, has made the land 

 worth from $100 to $200 per acre. There are now, according to 

 official reports, no less than 60,000 acres grown in the state of 

 Wisconsin, and Marinette County is one of the most successful 

 alfalfa counties. 



DAIRYING. Once upon a time little was thought of farming the 



timber lands of Wisconsin. If rich gold mines had 



been found in Upper Wisconsin there would have been a tremendous 

 rush to that section of the state. Today the dairy products of the 

 great state of Wisconsin sell for more than all the gold mined in 

 California, .Nevada, Colorado and Alaska. The Wisconsin farmer 

 who first began dairy farming opened up an industry in our state 

 worth more to the world than the native of South Africa who dis- 

 covered the great diamond fields of that part of the country. The 

 diamond and gold mines yield but one crop the dairy yields an 

 annual crop of ever increasing value, and it is a form of farming 

 which makes it possible to get larger and better yields of all crops 

 each year. 



GRASS AND DAIRYING. The cheapest feed grown on any 



farm, and the feed that is producing 



1h<> most beef, pork, mutton and milk, is grass. It is the natural 

 crop of the soil and may be established and maintained at less 

 expense than any other product that the land can produce. The 

 grass crop produces more live-stock food, and is a greater factor in 

 the maintenance of the live-stock industry of the entire country 

 than all other feeds combined. 



Marinette County can truly be called the "Grassland of 

 America," because there is no locality where grass flourishes any 

 better than it does here. It is because of the marvelous pastures 

 which abound in this locality that Marinette County is already 

 known far and wide as a great livestock locality. 



