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tain counties I will call your attention to, and ask you if you have any 

 opinion as to the correctness thereof. Roscommon county, for instance, 

 he divided into 26% farming land and 74% forest land. How would 

 that correspond with your opinion? 



Well, I think that estimate is about as nearly correct as I could ar- 

 rive at it from a casual observance in traveling through the county. 



Q. Take Oscoda county, 27% farming and 73% forest land. 



A. I would put the percentage of Oscoda farming land a little higher 

 than that. Oscoda county has some very good agricultural land. I 

 should put Oscoda county at 30% farming land. 



Q. Crawford county — farming land 18% and forest land 82%. 



A. I think his figures are about right. 



Q. Now take Alcona county — 37% farming and 63% forest land. 



A. I should put Alcona county at 40% farming land. Alcona has 

 some good land. 



Q. Iosco county — 68% farming land and 32% forest land. 



A. I should put that a little higher — 72% farraing land. 



Q. Ogemaw county — 52% farming land and 48% forest land. 



A. That is putting the farming land too high in Ogemaw county; I 

 should put that back to 30%. There are a good many abandoned farms 

 in that county. 



Q. Kalkaska county — 37% farming and 63% forest land. 



A. He has that about right. 



Q. Montmorency county — 39% farming and 61% forest land. 



A. I should put the farming land to 30%. 



Q. Otsego county — 52% farming and 48% forest. 



A. Otsego county is pretty good — ^that is about right. 



Q. Alpena county — 56%% farming and 43^^% forest. 



A. I should put the farming back to 50%. 



Q. Presque Isle county — 52% farming and 48% forest. 



A. I would put that at 45% farming. 



Q. Cheboygan — 55% farming and 45% forest. 



A. About right. 



Q. Grand Traverse county — -43% farming and 57% forest. 



A. I should put that farming back to 40%. 



Q. Missaukee county^57%% farming and 421/2% forest. 



A. I should divide that at 50% each. 



Q. Manistee county — 30% farming and 70% forest. 



A. Manistee county ought to be 35% farming. 



Q. Lake county^ — 25% farming and 75% forest. 



A. Twenty per cent farming would be high for Lake. 



Q. Osceola county — 62% farming and 38% forest. 



A. I would put that at 65% farming land. 



Q. Clare county — 45%% farming and 54y2% forest. 



A. Well, that is probably about right. Clare has some pretty good 

 land. 



Q. How do you class Newaygo county? 



A. Thirtr-flve per cent, farming would be a good guess. 



Q. I show Tou a tabulation made up from the schedules furnished by 

 your office and the Auditor General's office, giving the totals of tax 

 homestead land not disposed of Nov. 28th. It shows also the total area 



