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For years Wisconsin has produced more than twenty-five 

 million bushels of corn annually, and each year leads all states of 

 the Union with the highest average yield, usually attaining an 

 average yield of forty bushels to the acre or more. Against this 

 Illinois produces only about 27 bushels per acre on the average, 

 Iowa 34, and Nebraska 15. These are of course, average yields and 

 not the highest yields, and these figures demonstrate conclusively 

 that Wisconsin is a real corn state. 



Without commercial fertilizers, Wisconsin boys have in a 

 number of instances produced yields of one hundred bushels of corn 

 per acre. A yield of 133 bushels of corn per acre is reported in 

 one instance in Northeastern Wisconsin. 



PURE-BRED SEED CORN INDUSTRY In recent years pure- 



bred northern grown 



seed corn from Marinette County has been sold at top notch prices 

 in practically all corn growing states of the middle west and east. 



POTATOES A GREAT CASH CROP. Potatoes constitute one- 



fourth of all the food con- 

 sumed in this country. There is probably no single article of food 

 which, if the supply were cut off, would cause more suffering than 

 if the potato crop of the world happened to be a complete failure 

 for one season. 



The winter of 1916-17, when the retail price of potatoes went as 

 high as $4 per bushel will long be remembered. During that winter 

 the farmers of Marinette County, Wisconsin, who held their 

 potatoes in storage sold at wholesale prices of as high as $3.50 per 

 bushel. 



It is of course, not to be expected that the price of potatoes 

 will be so high very often, but on the other hand there is very little 

 likelihood of potatoes ever again selling as low as twenty-five cents 

 per bushel from the farmers' fields. 



Wisconsin is one of the greatest states in the Union in the 

 production of potatoes entering interstate commerce; Marinette 

 County is one of the greatest potato producing counties in Wiscon- 

 sin. The total of the crop in Marinette County annually at the 

 present time is estimated at $875,000, a gain of one hundred per 

 cent in the past three years. So remarkable have been the profits 

 made in growing potatoes by some farmers who have located here 

 on new lands that the figures appear almost unbelievable. 



THE GREAT NEW POTATO MOVEMENT. Wisconsin has 



lead the world in 



producing pure-bred potatoes, both for seed and table use. Not 

 only does the state produce tremendous yields with no commercial 

 fertilizers, but because of the production of pure-bred potato stock, 

 a premium is paid for quality on practically all potatoes from the 

 Badger State. 



