Live Stock Breeders' Association. 



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We find that the yield of corn has not been maintained for the 

 period since the statistics began to be collected — that is, in 1865, the 

 yield falling from 30 bushels at that time to twenty-seven bushels 

 and a half during the last ten years. The yield of wheat has re- 

 mained almost stationary. Beginning at nearly thirteen, it now 

 stands at a little over twelve bushels per acre. Your live stock popu- 

 lation increased steadily for the first thirty-five or forty years, but 

 you have not maintained your numbers of live stock in proportion 

 with your acreage in cereals, which has increased by leaps and 

 bounds. 



During the period following the war your country filled up 

 rapidly. You are now cultivating something over ten million acres 

 annually in the cereal crops, and you are keeping, according to the 

 census statistics, the equivalent of less than three million head of 

 cattle in the State, or less than one cattle beast to three acres in 

 cereal crops. 



So long as the Ohio farmer kept about ^he equivalent of about 

 one cattle beast to two acres in cereal cultivation, the cereal yield 



