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It may be difficult to prevent altogether this injustice, but it is time that wool 
growers should, individually and by private understanding, unitedly, and, if neces- 
sary, by direct vote of neighborhood meetings, refuse to sell under these rules. If 
they will thus take the trouble to unite and act in concert, not to fix abitrary 
prices of wools, but to prevent gross injustice to themselves, buyers will 
quickly conform to their views and pay prices in proportion to quality and con- 
dition. 
Harmony between buyers and sellers of wool is desirable, but not at the 
expense of producers. Eternal discord must result from such injustice, and 
eventual harmony can only come by fair and equal dealing. The buyers, like 
other carriers and go-betweens, may be a necessary evil, eating up the substance 
of producers, but proving a convenience in marketing and collecting; but farm- 
ers should neither themselves combine to do injustice nor suffer combinations to 
filch from them the proceeds of their industry. 
SPECIAL STATISTICS OF FARM RESOURCES AND PRODUCTS. 
Continued. 
1. What is the average percentage of increase (or decrease, if cases of decrease 
exist) in the price of farm lands in your county since 1860 ? 
2. What is the average value of wild or unimproved tracts of land; and what 
are the character, quality, and capabilities of such land ? 
3. What marked or peculiar resources have you in soil, timber, or minerals ; 
and what is the state of their development, or inducement for attempted develop- 
ment ? 
4, What crops, if any, are made a specialty in your county ; and what facts 
illustrating their culture, quantity, and the profit derived ? 
5. What kinds of wheat are cultivated; and which of them are preferred ; 
and why? What is the time of drilling or sowing ? For harvesting? And 
what is the amount and mode of culture? What proportion is drilled ? 
6. What grasses are natural to your pastures? How many months can farm 
animals feed exclusively in pastures ? What would be a fair estimate, per head, 
of the cost of a season’s pasturage of an average herd of cattle ? 
7. What are the capabilities of your county for fruit? What fruits are best 
adapted to your soiland climate? Give some facts concerning yield and profit. 
OHIO. 
1. With but two exceptions all the counties of this State, making returns, 
report an advance in the value of farm lands since 1860, the general average 
showing an increase of from 30 1o 35 per cent. as compared with the last census. 
Hardin county, in the interior, and Ottawa, on Lake Hrie, report an increase of 
100 per cent.; Lorain and Jefferson, 75 per cent.; Athens, 60; Lucas, Han- 
cock, Sandusky, Licking, Tuscarawas, and Highland, 50; Wood, Warren, 
Erie, Columbiana, 40; Clark, Greene, Medina, Fairfield, Wayne, Carroll, 
Holmes, Jackson, and Fayette, from 30 to 35; Williams, Fulton, Henry, Mercer, 
Butler, Ashland, Marion, Union, Geauga, Wayne, Starke, Morgan, Vinton, 
Lawrence, Ross, from 20 to 25; Logan, Seneca, Portage, and Washington, 15 
per cent. Huron reports no change since 1860, while our Wyandot correspond- 
ent alone reports an actual decline. i 
2. About one-third of the counties report no lands under the head of “ wild 
or unimproved ;” others have but little of that class, while the values of those 
reported average from $15 to $20 per acre, the lowest average for any county 
