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who raise sheep in Marinette County. It is also true that the 

 shrinkage in weight is much less in shipping sheep to market from 

 Upper Wisconsin than from far western points. 



SHEEP BIG HELP IN CLEARING LAND. Wherever sheep are 

 pastured in Mari- 

 nette County on unimproved land blue grass, timothy and clover 

 spring up rapidly. 



It is said that twenty-five sheep are the equal of one man in 

 clearing land, and that they do a more thorough job, so that one- 

 hundred sheep can be made to do the work of four hired men in 

 clearing every season. 



One acre of pasture land will feed three to five sheep during 

 the summer, and if the hay is allowed to mature this same acre will 

 produce two and one-half to four tons of hay which will take care 

 of eight to twelve sheep during the winter. 



Positively one of the greatest opportunities in Marinette 

 County today is the production of mutton and wool on the low 

 priced new farm lands to be had here. 



CORN, Marinette is on the forty-fifth parallel. There was a 

 time when the county was considered by the uninformed 

 as too far north for the profitable production of corn. This may 

 be true of land farther west in the state in this same latitude, and 

 in Minnesota and South Dakota, but here in Marinette County on 

 Lake Michigan, with an elevation of only 560 feet, and 140 to 150 

 days of growing weather as compared with 100 days farther west 

 in Wisconsin corn is annually producing from 40 to 75 bushels per 

 acre. The day temperature in Marinette County is about the same 

 as northern Illinois, although of course the night temperature is 

 somewhat cooler. This accounts for the heavy weight of grains 

 produced in this climate, but retards the ripening of unacclimated 

 corn. 



Our state university in the last ten years has developed varieties 

 which entirely overcome this difficulty, and we produce about the 

 same quality of corn as Southern Wisconsin or Northern Illinois. 

 Any good corn farmer can grow all the corn he wants in Marinette 

 County, Wis. 



At the 1916 state grain show held at Madison which was open 

 to the competition of the entire state, a Marinette County farmer 

 took first on Wisconsin No. 25 corn. In 1917 Marinette County 

 farmers took first, second and third places in the same show on 

 Wisconsin No. 25 corn, and took second place on Wisconsin No. 7 

 corn. 



Corn raised for silage in Marinette County gives a weight per 

 acre of 11 to 13 tons per acre. One farmer states that he filled two 

 silos from fifteen acres. The silos were 12 by 37 and 12 by 32. In 

 many localities it takes 10 to 12 acres of corn to fill one silo. 



