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concentrated feed, he will do the rest. By all odds, the most 

 important question in hog raising is not the concentrated feed but 

 the question of cheap forage and good pastures. 



The country where great quantities of forage can be produced 

 at low cost is always an ideal hog-raising locality. These are the 

 conditions which make Marinette County a country where hog 

 raising can be made to show splendid profits. 



Cow peas and soy beans are more than equal to corn for 

 feeding and fattening hogs and you can also ripen corn in Marinette 

 County practically every year. Cow peas and soy beans are grown 

 in Marinette County with remarkable success, and together with 

 the corn which is raised here, they make up a very plentiful supply 

 of the concentrates needed in finishing hogs. 



But greater than all other reasons for choosing Marinette 

 County for hog raising, is the fact that we have no cholera, which 

 makes this one of the best locations in America for the production 

 of pork. 



WISCONSIN AS A HOG STATE. It will be a surprise to many 



people to know that Wis- 

 consin has an annual output of 325,000,000 pounds of dressed pork 

 and that $35,000,000 worth of hogs are sold every year. When you 

 get to looking up the subject, you find that in most parts of Wiscon- 

 sin cows and hogs are big sources of income. Meat is one of the 

 state's most valuable products with a yearly production of 4600 

 car loads. There are 2,500,000 swine in Wisconsin, which means 

 fourteen on the average for each farm. Enough pork is produced 

 each year to feed all the people of the state for twenty-six months. 



PEAS FOR CANNING. Recent figures show that Wisconsin 



produces more canned peas than all 



other states combined. There is a reason for this : It is recognized 

 that in producing peas for canning, there must be a combination of 

 climate, soil, etc., especially suitable for the business. Throughout 

 America in the pea canning industry, it is a recognized fact that 

 Wisconsin has this combination, and that nowhere can such good 

 peas for canning purposes be produced and they can be produced 

 at as low or lower cost here than elsewhere. This is only one of the 

 many special cash crops which the Marinette County farmer can 

 grow, and on which he can realize very high returns for the acreage 

 and labor involved. 



Marinette County farmers can produce twenty bushels and 

 u p ward of peas per acre which sell on the market at from $2.50 to 

 $4 and upward per bushel. More new pea canneries are being 

 started in Wisconsin than in all other states combined. At the 

 present time, there is probably no other location more desirable 



