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OHIO. 



The following table shows the purposes and 19,936; bushels raised, 240,015; average per 



amounts for which taxes were levied in 1875 acre, 12.04. Compared with 1873, this shows 



in Ohio with the increase and decrease, com- a decrease of 1,066 acres, an increase of 26,945 



pared with 1874 ; also the tax collected by the bushels, and an increase of 1.90 in the average 



United States in 1875 : yield per acre. 



Total taxfor state purposes $4,948,995 19 The potato-crop was 7,348,907 bushels from 



Total county tax for local purposes 23,003,976 is a n acreage of 107,911, being an average yield 



Total tax levied in Ohio for 1875 W&WnW of 68 ' 10 P er acr6 ' Compared with 1873 , this 



internal revenue tax collected by the United shows an increase of 27,712 acres and 1,382,- 



statcs 14,656,295^30 59^ bushels, and a decrease in the average 



Total collected in Ohio .$42,609,266 67 yield of 8.45 bushels per acre. 



The number of acres planted to sweet-potatoes 



By the population of Ohio in 1870, per head $1600 ,, Q o QTW J xt_ -fij Trft Kft9 hna^la tho 



For each voter voting at the election, 1875 71 66 Was 2,79d, and the yield ITtKOOB DUSnelS , tne 



average per acre being 69.15 bushels, 

 increase of local taxes $1,215,976 3j Tne re turns of meadow products were: 



Decrease of State tax 101,37223 . 01 A 00*7 f fl T 1 IAK 



Net increase of the whole tax $1,114,60410 999 ; average, 83. Clover : acres, 502,268; 



The assessed value of property on the grand tons of hay, 362,386 ; bushels of seed, 194,066 ;' 

 duplicate is as follows, compared with the re- acres ploughed under for manure, 40,277. Corn- 

 turns of 1874 : pared with 1873, this shows a decrease in acres 

 Value of lands 1874 . . .$697,403,537 in timothy of 4,320 ; decrease in tons in timothy, 



1875 696,883,323 156,165; decrease in average, 0.16; decrease 



$525^14 in ' acres in clover, 148,890; decrease in tons 



! of clover, 205,662; decrease in bushels of 



Value of real estate in cities, etc., 1874 $354,849,199 clover-seed, 11,878 ; decrease in acres of clover 



1875 .JW6,03i,72i p i ougaed under, 23,812. 



increase $11,182,622 The product of flax in Ohio, in 1874, was: 



Value of chattel property, 1874.... .$528,121,588 DUrnber f J WU > ^l*', _ b " 8 J ela ^f 1 



" 1875 rascals produced, 268,790 ; pounds of fibre, 6,223,- 



*75892so 3 ^** Compared with 1873, it shows a decrease 



' * ' * in acres sown of 2,936; increase of pounds of 



Total value $1,598,575.862 fibre, 1,152,563 ; and increase of bushels of seed, 



Total increase 18,196,583 1Q1 280. 



The acreage of wheat for 1874 was 1,845,- The number of acres planted to tobacco in 



797, being 101,041 acres more than in 1873; 1874 was 12,439, producing 9,245,524 pounds. 



the yield, 26,896,818 bushels, an increase over This was a decrease of 31,411 acres and 30,- 



the previous year of 4,922,433 bushels; aver- 327,034 pounds compared with the reports of 



age yield, 14.51, an increase of 1.90. In acre- 1873. This shows the most remarkable loss of 



age, total yield, and average yield, there was a production of any article in the State, 

 decided increase over each of the preceding The dairy products of Ohio, for 1874, are : 



four years. butter, 44,335,657 pounds; cheese, 33,123,880 



In corn the acreage was 2,597,716; bushels pounds. Compared with 1873, it is an increase 



yielded, 101,815,494; average per acre, 39.15 of 801,792 pounds of butter, and a decrease of 



bushels. Compared with 1873, the increase in 3,344,650 pounds of cheese, 

 acres was 201,421; in bushels, 17,766,166; in The product of maple-sugar in 1874 was 



the average per acre, 4.08. 1,248,955 pounds, and of sirup 302,854 gal- 



In oats the number of acres sown was 881,- Ions. Compared with the product of 1873, 



970; bushels raised, 19,557,014; average per there was a decrease in the amount of sugar 



acre, 22. Compared with 1873, it shows an of 901,117 pounds, and a decrease of 74,515 



increase of 90,043 acres, a decrease of 537,890 gallons of sirup. The sorghum-crop figures 



bushels, and a decrease of 3.38 bushels per show an acreage of 12,108, a product of 36,- 



acre. The average is less than for seventeen 410 pounds of sugar, and 941,510 gallons of 



years. sirup. Compared with 1873, this was an in- 



Of barley there were 42,547 acres sown ; crease in acreage of 26.82 ; gallons of sirup, 



1,233,914 bushels raised; average per acre, 249,196; and a decrease of 436 pounds of 



26.65. Compared with 1873, this shows a de- sugar. 



crease of 7,325 acres, an increase of 159,008 The following is the number and value of 



bushels, and an increased average of 5.10 bush- sheep, and the number of pounds of wool 



els per acre. shorn in Ohio, as returned by the assessors 



The statistics of the rye-crop show the num- in 1875 : number of sheep, 4,100,288 ; value, 



ber of acres sown to be 22,175 ; bushels raised, $10,173,046; average value, $2.48; pounds 



231,435 ; average per acre, 9.94 bushels. Com- of wool shorn, 16,684,276 ; average pounds to 



pared with 1873, the decrease is 4,752 acres ; the sheep, 4.07. Compared with 1874, there 



decrease in yield, 60,394 bushels ; and in aver- is a decrease of 233,580 in the number, and 



age, 0.54. $478,021 in the aggregate value. The assess- 



Of buckwheat the number of acres sown was ors report 172,572 dogs in the State; sheep 



