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Warren, Preble, Darke, Morgau, and Guerusey, none of which had a 

 product smaller than one million pounds in 1873, and the first-named 

 had about eight millions. Stock-cattle are bought largely from the 

 West, some fruit is brought from Michigan, and thorough-bred animals 

 for stock-improvement are to some extent obtained from abroad. The 

 surplus of Michigan is mainly wheat, wool, potatoes, and fruit of vari- 

 ous kinds ou the JNIichigau shore and in the southern counties. It has 

 a variety of productions, and each county, as a rule, furnishes mainly its 

 own supplies. Some counties send abroad 75 per cent, of their wheat- 

 product. Indiana has a surplus of wheat and other cereals, raises and 

 feeds cattle, sells some pork, wool, and mutton, horses and mules, and 

 disposes of much corn in the form of whisky. One distillery in Marion 

 uses 1,000 bushels daily. Xew Albany ships down the river thousands 

 of barrels of potatoes and vast quantities of cabbage. Tobacco is also 

 a source of revenue to Indiana. Improved stock is brought into the 

 State. 



Illinois, the great corn State, one-fifth of its area being a corn-field, 

 feeds cattle, fattens swine, and raises horses and mules for the southern 

 market, some wool, and a variety of agricultural productions. There 

 is usually one industry especially prominent in each section. Among 

 the wheat counties, Adams, Pike, Jersey, Monroe, and Randolph, lie on 

 the Mississippi, and have a rich soil, much of it well adapted to large 

 yields of corn ; Greene borders on the Illinois ; Montgomery and Macou- 

 pin adjoin the fertile corn-producing Sangamon ; Clinton and Washing- 

 ton are three-fourths fertile prairie ; and Stephenson, on the northern 

 border, is the finest portion of the Eock Eiver Valley. The great 

 corn counties are still more scattered. Champaign and Vermillion being 

 in the eastern central part of the State. McLean, Logan, Morgan, 

 and Mason occupy central positions ; Bureau, Henry, Knox, La Salle, 

 and Warren are north, and west of the Illinois Kiver, only two of 

 which border upon it. Tobacco is shipped from Williamson, Saline, 

 Hamilton, Franklin, Wayne, Johnson, and, in small amounts, from 

 several others. Corn is shipped from the principal maize-produc- 

 ing counties, yet most of it is fed within the lines of the counties 

 producing it. Hay is a leading shipping-crop in Marion and Han- 

 cock ; fruits and vegetables on the line of the Central Eoad in South 

 Illinois ; and all the cereals are produced as a surplus in most of those 

 mainly devoted to corn and wheat. Texas and western stock for feed- 

 ing and many thoroughbred animals are brought into the State. Many 

 counties fail to produce their own flour ; some furnish a small market 

 for potatoes, and several for fruits. Farm-productions are shipped 

 extensively, and few purchased from abroad. The surplus crop of Wis- 

 consin and Iowa is wheat. Hops are grown in both, mainly in the 

 former, tobacco to some extent in W^isconsin, and cranberries in the 

 marshes of the northwestern portion of the same State. Wheat is the 

 main shipping-crop in every Minnesota county reported, except Isanti, 

 where potatoes and hogs are named. Iowa has immense quantities of 

 ■wheat and corn for export, stock and fat animals, from all settled por- 

 tions of the State. Appanoose farmers have sold in one season timothy- 

 seed to the value of $70,000, and think they can afford to buy flour and 

 pay for it in the product of more profitable crops. Most of the Iowa 

 counties ship wheat, most finding a local use for corn, but maize is the 

 main export of Louisa, Fremont, Appanoose, Dallas, Jackson, Potta- 

 wattamie, and Story. Very little is procured abroad, except fruits, 

 young stock, and improved breeds of farm-animals. Wheat is the prin- 

 cipal surplus crop of Missouri counties, and oats, corn, tobacco, flax- 



