Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 53, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 March 1917 — $2,988.75 GROWS ON 50 ACRE FARM [ARTICLE]

$2,988.75 GROWS ON 50 ACRE FARM

Escanaba, Mich., Feb. 28. —Just $2,988.75 was the total sum which Kelly Johnson of Delta county, in CloverLand, received for products raised on his fifty-acre farm. He claims he paid , out s3sofor labor, thus netting him, he | figures, a profit of $2,638.75. Johnson’s crop follows: 1,100 bushels potatoes at $1.15.51,265.06 200 bushels onions at $1.20... 280.0 C 200 bushels rutabagas at 40 cents .......»'. ‘80.06 250 bushels tomatoes at 90 -—cents .... .~rvv. ».; r...w... ’ 225:00 800 bushels cucumbers at $1.25 375.0(1 150 bushels table beets at 75 cents 112.50 75 bushels cow beets at 35 cents 26.25 15 bushels beans at $7.00.... 105.06 6V 2 tons cabbage at S4O.DO'. V. . 260.00 200 dozen ears corn at 12% cents 250.00 -Total receipts $2,988.75 Lass labor amount 350.00 Net receipts $2,638.75 Mr. Johnson also raised a large supply of grains and hay and his pasture also brought in returns, but be can give no figures on these crops. He has many more acres of land to clear. Mr. Johnson is only one of scores of settlers who have purchased lands In Clover-Land, which Is the fifteen counties of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, who have realized the folly of paying high rents or large rates of Interest when they could secure good 6ized farms in Clover-Land through the wise suggestion of The Upper Peninsula Development Bureau of Marquette, Michigan, 100 Bacon Block, grow large crops, get good profits and live a pleasant Hfe,—Adv.