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Missouri Agricultural Report. 



CHART V. 



HAMILTOI* 





Corn in Ohio. Increase or decrease in yield per acre, 1850-59, to 1890-99. 



Chart V is the history of the com crop in Ohio, the crop which 

 responds most readily to farm yard manure, and upon which fer- 

 tilizers have been least used, and the figures show the increase or de- 

 crease in the yield per acre for the last as compared with the first 

 20-year period. You will notice that in the northwestern counties 

 there has been a marked increase in the yield per acre. There has 

 also been a large increase in some of the middle-eastern counties of 

 the State. These counties represent the territory where sheep have 

 been most largely kept. The great sheep region of the State lies 

 there, while the great corn region of Ohio, formerly in the Miami 

 and Scioto valleys, is now found in the flat northwestern coun- 

 ties, and Illinois farmers are selling their black, rich farms around 



