58 LANDOLOGY 



Some variety of wild berries can be picked on the unimproved 

 lands of Marinette County at any time between the strawberry 

 season in the spring and the first frost in the fall. In many cases 

 families have made very large sums of money during the summer 

 picking wild berries for the market. 



Marinette County orchardists can grow fruit and put it on 

 the market in most cases for less than the far westerner has to pay 

 for freight alone. 



TAME BERRIES A BIG BUSINESS. Our location on the shore 



- of Lake Michigan is grad- 

 ually making this a great country for raising strawberries, rasp- 

 berries, blackberries, cherries and other small fruits. 



SHEEP, A GREAT OPPORTUNITY. For many years farmers 



^~~"""~~" ^^^^ ^^ - ^^ on comparatively small 

 tracts of land could not compete in sheep raising with the western 

 ranchers who were able to have the benefit of the open range. The 

 day of the open range has passed .however, and today sheep can 

 be raised profitably on practically any farm. The Wisconsin farmer 

 no longer needs to fear the competition of the western sheepman, 

 because he can raise sheep with greater profit than the ranchers 

 of the "West, due to the difference in freight rates in his favor in 

 shipping to the great sheep markets of the country. 



Wisconsin is the greatest pure-bred sheep state in the Union. 

 There are some other states which have more sheep, but it is in 

 Wisconsin that the business has seen its greatest development in 

 the formation of pure-bred herds. 



Sheep provide two pay days a year, one when the wool is sold, 

 and one when the mutton is turned into meat. America needs 

 nearly 750,000,000 pounds of wool annually for domestic consump- 

 tion. Nearly two-thirds of this supply must be bought abroad 

 despite the fact that we have the soil, climate, and all other neces- 

 sary conditions to raise enough sheep to supply our country with 

 all its wool and mutton, and also to export great quantities. The 

 United States today has only fifty million sheep, whereas we should 

 have one hundred and fifty million. 



In the past ten years prices for mutton and wool have advanced 

 tremendously and now there are such remarkable profits possible 

 in this industry that the number of sheep kept on farms in the 

 United States will increase very rapidly. 



DO NOT DELAY. I n 1917 a convention was held at Chicago to 



- consider the adaptability of the cut-over lands 

 of the Great Lakes region for profitable sheep production. Facts 

 were brought out at that meeting showing no other locality in the 



