AGRICULTURE OF JACKSON COUNTY. 
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partly developed, they do not compare with the production of 
the more highly developed towns having heavier soil. 
Tobacco has the highest acre value of any of the special crops 
grown in the county. The census of 1920 reports 209 acres de¬ 
voted to tobacco growing in the county. The acreage on any one 
farm is small, and probably averages no more than two to 
three acres; so that tobacco is grown on about 100 of the 2,400 
farms in the county. 
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The production of cranberries is a special industry carried 
on chiefly in the marshy parts of the east half of the county. 
1910 census reports 529 acres of cranberries with a yield of 
529,000 quarts. In 1920, 480 acres produced 548,648 quarts. 
In 1917 about 460 acres of beans were produced in Jackson 
county. In 1920 the crop was 232 acres yielding 2,344 bushels. 
These also are generally grown on the sandy soils and in small 
plots of one-half to two acres extent, although a. few fields of 
from five to twenty acres of beans are grown. The white navy 
bean is the variety generally grown. The greatest acreages are 
usually in the towns of Alma, Albion, Hixton, and Garfield. 
Potatoes are grown on a commercial scale in parts of the 
county. The largest acreages are found in Cleveland, Irving, 
Garden Valley, and Garfield and Alma townships. Potato ware 
houses are located at Fairchild, Price and Black River Falls. 
Alma Center, Humbird, and Levis. 
Cucumbers are quite extensively grown in portions of the 
county, chiefly on the sandy and sandy loam soils. Salting 
stations are located at Merrillan, Black River Falls, Hatfield, 
Levis, and Taylor. As high as $2.00 per bushel of fifty pounds 
is paid for first grade cucumbers. Seed is generally furnished 
and farmers are able to make $100 to $150 an acre from this 
crop where soil and weather conditions are favorable. This 
crop is very tender and occasionally early frosts in the fall or 
the vield. 
