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Michigan Crystal Falls
Mr. Hollister has devoted considerable time to raising blooded fowls for the purpose of ascertaining whether it pays or not, and has a most interesting family of fine chickens. The soil has been tested also, and in his flower and vegetable garden was found growing and matured almost every variety of flora and useful vegetables, many of which it has been opined could not grow in this climate. Corn sufficiently matured for seed was shown the reporter, and the vegetables were as fine as ever seen in the most celebrated agricultural sections. . Watermelons, musk melons, pumpkins, squashes, etc., that require long seasons, were found doing well. Embryo chestnut trees, walnuts and oaks peeped their tiny heads timidly towards the sky in their aspirations to towering greatness, appearing the merest pygmies besides the great maples, birches and hemlocks that surround them. The flower garden was a repetition of the completeness of the vege- table department, and more than a dozen varieties of lovely roses cast their delicious fragrance on the balsam-purified air.
Upper Michigan
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