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SOIL SURVEY OF WAUPACA COUNTY. 
manuring, however, is not at all common. Commercial fertiliz¬ 
ers are being used in a few cases, chiefly in an experimental way 
and mostly oil the potato crop. It is certain that the use of com¬ 
mercial fertilizers will gradually increase since the results ob¬ 
tained on the potato crop in this and other counties are very 
gratifying. In the vicinity of Weyauwega on a sandy loam soil, 
unfertilized, the yield of potatoes was 85 bushels to the acre. 
On the same soil where 14 spreader loads of manure were used, 
supplemented with 500 pounds of a complete commercial fertil¬ 
izer, the yield amounted to 350 bushels to the acre. Experi¬ 
ments which have thus far been conducted indicate that the best 
results with the commercial fertilizers are secured on soils which 
are in a fairly*good state of fertility. 
The question of securing competent farm labor is often some¬ 
what difficult. In many cases, however, especially where the 
farms are small, the members of the family are able to do prac¬ 
tically all of the farm work—extra Ikbor being needed only at 
the time of haying and harvesting. 
Farms usually range in size from 40 to 160 acres, although 
there are a number of holdings of 200 acres or more. On many 
of the larger farms there is a considerable amount of unim¬ 
proved land. The average size of all farms in the county, ac¬ 
cording to the 1010 census, was 110 acres. In 1910 there were 
3,794 farms in the county and in 1920 there were 3,770 farms. 
The last census reports that 90.1% of all farms in the county 
were operated by the owner. Most of the rented land is in the 
poorer sandy sections. Rent is usually on the share basis, the 
tenant furnishing equipment and half of the stock and seed and 
receiving one-half of the farm produce. While the share sys¬ 
tem is most common, there are a number of variations in this 
system. 
The value of lands has been steadily increasing in this county. 
The better improved farms sell from $100 to $150 per acre where 
ell located. Cut-over lands, mostly in the northwestern part 
of the county, have a selling value from $15 to $35 per acre. 
1 lie farms in the sandy region where the fertility of the soil 
is sometimes low and the improvements rather inferior have a 
value of around $40 per acre, though this of course is extremely 
variable depending upon a number of factors. 
