MICHIGAN 



3783 



MICHIGAN 



THE FACTORY 



Automobiles - 

 Foundry,Machine shop 

 Lurnber,Tirnber 



Flour, etc. 

 Leather 



Printing,Publishing 

 Paper,Wood Pulp 

 Daily Products 

 Slaughtering.Packing 

 Tobacco 



Brass,Bronze,Copper 

 Patent Medicines 

 Food Preparations 

 Bread, etc. 

 Chemicals 

 Beet Sugar 

 Stoves,Furnaces 

 Manufactured Gas 

 lron,Steel 

 Canning,Preservi 

 Agricultural Implement 

 Railroad Cars repaired 

 WireCable,etc. 

 Sheet Metal 

 Boots, Shoes 

 Hosiery.Krrit Goods 

 Men's Clothing 

 or sets 



MICHIGAN PRODUCTS CHART 

 Figures Based on US. Government Reports 



Millions of Dollars Annually 

 5 50 75 100 00 300 AGO 



THE MINE 

 [Coal 

 Salt 

 Copper 

 I Iron 



THE FARM 

 [Barley 

 Peaches 

 Wool 



Sugar Beets 

 Butter Fat 

 'Rye 



Hogs slaughtered 

 Sheep sold 

 Apples . 

 Poultry raised 

 Garden Vegetables 

 (Horses sold 

 Milk 



I Dry Beans 

 Cattle sold 

 Hogs sold 

 Potatoes 



Butter 

 Wheat 

 Calves sold 

 Oats 



Timothy,C lover 

 Corn 

 50 5 



tutes the chief source of wealth of the state. 

 Over one-half of its total land area, approxi- 

 mating 36,787,000 acres, was included in farms 

 in 1910; and over two-thirds of this was im- 

 proved land. The total value of farm property 

 including land, buildings, implements and ma- 

 chinery, and live stock was $1,088,858,379, show- 

 ing an increase in value of 57.7 per cent since 

 1900. The average size of a farm was 91.5 

 acres, and the average value of land was $32.48 

 per acre, as reported by the Federal census. 

 One-third of the total farm acreage in the 

 state was in farms of 100 to 174 acres, and a 

 little under one-third was in farms between 

 fifty and ninety-nine acres. Nearly eighty-five 

 per cent of the farms were operated by owners 



or their managers, and only fifteen per cent by 

 tenants. Seven out of every ten Michigan 

 farmers are native whites, and nearly all the 

 remainder are foreign-born whites; of the lat- 

 ter nearly two-fifths were born in Canada and 

 over one-quarter in Germany. 



The soil and climate make possible a va- 

 riety of products. The leading crops are hay, 

 ' corn, oats, wheat, rye, potatoes, sugar beets 

 and market vegetables. The largest acreage is 

 under hay and forage plants, but the crop of 

 the greatest value is corn. Michigan ranks sec- 

 ond in the production of potatoes, coming after 

 New York. Michigan grows more potatoes 

 than Illinois, Indiana and Ohio combined, its 

 yearly output averaging forty-one million bush- 



