THE AGRICULTURE OF OHIO. 



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seen even the stubble of a crop of drilled wheat. The following serves to ex- 

 hibit the results of the queries as to the average product of some of the chief 

 staples of Ohio ; it may gratify and in some respects surprise the reader, we 

 don't isay in what way — that will depend on liis own whereabouts and his previ- 

 ous impressions as to the agricultural capacity of this young giantess among the 

 sisterhood of American Republics. It would be easy, we should think, to add 

 various queries to such Circulars that would elicit highly interesting information 

 — as, for instance, the ordinary price of land ; the price and the hours of labor ; 

 and then as to orchards, dairies, the kind of animal power, ice. 



Counties. 



Adams 



Allen 



AahJaiuI . . . 

 Asluabula . 



Belmont 



Champaig'n , 



Clark , 



Clermont* . . 

 Columbia .. 

 Coshoctont 

 Crawford . . , 

 Cuyahoga . . 

 Delaware . . 

 Fairfield . . . 



Fayette 



Franklin ... 



Gallia 



Geauga 



Greene 



Hamilton . . . 

 Hardin.. .. 



Harrison 



HighlandJ . . 

 H I] ron 



AVERAGK PKR ACRE. 



Corn. 



Bushkls. 



20 to 50 

 50 

 40 



40 to fiO 

 45 

 40 



35 to 70 

 40 

 35 

 40 



45 



3C to 50 



40 to 45 



40 



25 to 30 



40 



35 to 40 



50 



35 



40 



Counties. 



Knox 



Lake 



Lawrence 



Licking 



Logan 



Lorain 



Madison 



Marion 



Medina 



Meigs 



Morgan 



Montgomery 



Miami|| 



Muakirigum 



Perry 



Portage 



Pickaway 



Richland total 



Ros^s 



Stark 



Summit 



Wa.shington 



Wayne 



Wood 



AVERAGE PER ACRE. 



Baskels. 

 25 



12 to 14 

 10 

 20 

 15 

 15 



10 to 20 

 20 

 12 

 15 

 18 

 17 

 8 

 20 

 20 

 14 

 1,200,000 

 10 

 20 

 20 

 15 

 20 



20 to 25 



Bus/ich. 

 40 to 45 

 35 to 40 



600,000 



23i 



40 to 50 



45 

 33 

 40 



Corn. 



Biuikth. 



35 to 40 

 30 

 30 



40 



30 



35 to 40 



35 

 40 

 50 

 40 



40 



50 



300,000 



48J 



30 to 35 



35 



45 



40 



40 to 50 



*4. I have no information derived from reliable sources. In the corn trade, we have seven dis- 

 tilleries (! ! !) in this age of temperance — making daily, in the aggregate, 150 to 175 barrels, of 

 40 gallons each, of whisky. Two distilleries in my vicinity have taken in about 100,000 — and 

 *■ still they come." From this data I compute that this year'.'j crop will furnish distillers alone 

 400,000 bushels of corn. 



As a set-oft" to the above, we must give the following from the same respectable reporter, Mr. 

 James Ferguson : - -.>- 



There is a gradual progression in the upward tendency of Agricnlture in the county ; better 

 bogs, sheep and cattle are being introduced — (horses neglected) — better varieties of wheat and 

 com are being sought for. Most of our farmers are nearly up with the times in agricultural ira 

 plements; I know of nothing, however, that calls for spcrinl notice; yet all axe far, very far. 

 ehort of what the soil, situation, the times, the calling, and the aire require. 



The only association of airriculturiat.s in the county is known as the " Franklin Agricultural 

 and Horticultural Society. We have been organized one year — number but 56 members — levy 

 no tax, draw no money from the treasurj- — pay no premiums in money — make our certificates of 

 merit suffice — have had one Fair — the exhibition respectable, exciting no little interest, while 

 every one remarks tiiat •'the next will doubtless be a splendid affair." IT> have a fair prospect 

 for a rcxperffih'c farwerx' lihran/. Airriciilfiiral Chemistry is heins^ sfvlied by a few already, 

 as veil as (Jeolo^y and Miiieralosry, while few could tell you the name of the " latest novel " — so 

 far good : still we are most of us on that old " trenil wheel " — that interminable circle which our 

 ancestors have trod for the last thousand years — and too many plantins: and sowing by " the 

 siens," and " rig-hl time in the moon.'^ Farmers are getting rich here from Nature's bounties. 

 We have the same ideological formation, and nearly as good a climate as the famed Palestine 

 of the Old World. Shall ignorance, bad tillage, and bad sovemmont of a first luxurious, then vi- 

 cious, ignorant and degenerate race make this, as that, a desert waste ! 



Now is the time for the philanthropist and statesman to fi.x the standard of worth high in the 

 intellectual and moral temple of fame ; to fix the tat!te and elevate this first, greatest, and noblest 

 of all pursuits, and he has the proud satisfaction of starting his race onward and upward to that 

 high destiny in res(!rvation for yet purer and nobler intelligence.s. How shall ignorance be driven 

 out, superstition dethroned, listlessness aroused, lethargy thrown oif, and tlie man be aroused to 

 "what he is, a thinking, active, siiperior in/rllin-enrr, rather than a plodding drone. 



t 6. No important improvements have, within my knosvledge, been introduced in this country. 



Allow me, in addition, to suirgest that one of the most desirable and important improvements 

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