Farming In Michigan A Success

Aceording to the U. S. Agricultural leport for six years in succession the farmers of the Wolverine State received more actual cash per acre for eiglit of the principal farm crops, than did tthe farmers of any one of the great farming States of the West and Northwest. The agrégate for the six successive years In Michigan, per acre, was $97.42, and in Ohio, the next highest, it was $S4.11, while In Nebraska it was hut $43.00, being the lowest figures in the ten principal Western agricultura! States. In the year 1883 the average cash value of those crops was in Michigan, $10.48 per acre. According to the same reliable authority that State is well up amongst the sisterhood of states in supplying the world with articles of prime necessity, being first in salt, iirst In lumber, first in copper; and as for iron, in comparison with Pennsylvania, the value of the ore at the mines where it was produced, it was in Michigan, according to the last census report for 18SU, $0,034,048, and in Pennsylvania it was 15,517,07!), thougti the out-put in Pennsylvania was 259,903 tons the most. While in the matter of miners' wages per month, the average in Pennsylvania was $28 57 and in Michigan the average was $42.11. Michigan is fourth in her wool product and amongst the foremost in fruit, and out ranks all others, according to U. S. oflicial returns for the census year, in the average number of bushels of wheat per acre, and is fourth in aggregate amount produced. All this and much other valuablc information may be obtained from a pamphlet entitled " Michigan nd ti Kesourres."