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HILL, BENJAMIN H. 



not the most abundant, year on record. In 

 1881 there was a deficiency east of the Rocky 

 Mountains, when the yield of Indian corn 

 fell off more than 500,000,000 bushels as 

 against the previous year's yield. The wheat- 

 crops also fell off 118,000,000 bushels. But 

 the crops of 1882 exceeded in abundance. 

 The yield of wheat is reported to be over 

 500,000,000 bushels. Corn is estimated by 

 the Agricultural Bureau at 1,680,000,000 bush- 

 els, and by other authorities as high as 1,800,- 

 000,000 bushels. From the most reliable 

 sources it is ascertained that the United States 

 have produced 440,000,000 bushels more of 

 corn, and 130,000,000 bushels more of wheat, 

 in 1882, than in 1881. It may not be out 

 of place to mention, in this connection, that 

 American flour, made from the choice grades 

 of spring wheat, has of late years become an 

 important item among exports from the United 



vests of 1882 are good beyond all previous 

 record, and that there is no likelihood of any 

 deficiency in the food-products needful for the 

 support of life throughout the world. 



HILL, BENJAMIN HARNEY, American states- 

 man and jurist, was born in Jasper County, 

 Ga., September 14, 1823 ; and died at his resi- 

 dence, in the city of Atlanta, August 16, 1882, 

 having almost completed his fifty-ninth year. 

 He received his early education at the school of 

 the Rev. Mr. Corbin, at Corinth, Heard County, 

 Ga. He entered the University of Georgia in 

 1841, and graduated there in 1844, taking the 

 first honor, and delivering the valedictory ora- 

 tion, in which he gave promise of his remark- 

 able power as an orator, receiving the en- 

 thusiastic applause of William C. Preston, of 

 South Carolina, and of Judge Berrien, of 

 Georgia, who happened to be present. Soon 

 after he left college, he was admitted to the 



BENJAMIN HARNET HILL. 



States. The shipments grew from 2,000,000 

 barrels in 1868, to 4,000,000 in 1876, and 

 8,000,000 in 1881. In 1882 they reached from 

 9,000,000 to 10,000,000 barrels. 



Thus it appears true of America, as well as 

 of Europe, that in this great continent the bar- 



bar, and in a very short time rose to a place in 

 the front rank of the profession. In 1851, 

 being then twenty-eight years of age, he was 

 elected to the Lower House of the General 

 Assembly, from Troup County. From that 

 time until 1860 he was regarded as the leader 



