. Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture. Agriculture; Agriculture. BULLETIN OF THE No. 91 Contribution from the Bureau of Plant Industry, Wm. A. Taylor, Chief May 16, 191' COST AND METHODS OF CLEARING LAND IN THE LAKE STATES. By Harry Thompson, Agriculturist, and Earl D. Strait, Scientific Assistant Office of Farm Management. INTRODUCTION. Practically the entire northeastern part of Minnesota and all of Michigan and Wisconsin were originally forest land. Nearly all the southern parts of Michigan and Wisconsin are now cleared except for scattering farm wood lots. At the present time
. Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture. Agriculture; Agriculture. BULLETIN OF THE No. 91 Contribution from the Bureau of Plant Industry, Wm. A. Taylor, Chief May 16, 191' COST AND METHODS OF CLEARING LAND IN THE LAKE STATES. By Harry Thompson, Agriculturist, and Earl D. Strait, Scientific Assistant Office of Farm Management. INTRODUCTION. Practically the entire northeastern part of Minnesota and all of Michigan and Wisconsin were originally forest land. Nearly all the southern parts of Michigan and Wisconsin are now cleared except for scattering farm wood lots. At the present time large areas of undeveloped land are found in northeastern Minnesota and the northern half of Michigan and Wisconsin. In Table I the figures showing the area of improved and unimproved lands were taken from the census of 1910; the statistics regarding the area of merchantable timber land and of logged-off land and the land values were compiled from data obtained from State, county, and township officials, lumber companies, and other companies or individuals well informed on these matters. The figures obtained furnish a fairly close ap- proximation to the actual acreage of merchantable timber and logged-off land in the three States mentioned. A part of the logged-off land in the three States specified probably would give better returns if put into permanent forest, but there is much good agricultural land in nearly every county in which these investigations have been conducted which at the present time is not growing desirable timber and is an idle waste (fig. 1), giving no re- turns whatever. Because of the danger from fire, these waste areas form a menace to the communities. At the present rate of cutting, most of the remaining merchantable timber will be cut within the next 25 years. This means that in many counties there will be a change from lumbering to farming. Note.—This bulletin gives details of cost and methods of clearing land in the Lake States and is of spe- cial
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