ANNUAL MEETING OHIO STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



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As quoted from Dean Bailey earlier in this paper, we have been guilty in 

 the past of talking largely at random. Hereafter we must try to confine our 

 statements and deductions, so far as possible, to facts. It seems very fortunate, 

 therefore, that the machinery of this great organization, the Weather Bureau, 

 is ready to join us in this Survey work. The accompanying maps Figs. 10 to. 19) 

 inclusive, will indicate some of the more pronounced climatic features of the 

 State. A number of others will be found in the Bulletin mentioned. 



THE SHIFTING OF RURAL POPULATION. 



You certainly will agree with us that in connection with an Agricultural 

 Survey it is necessary to know whether our rural population is increasing or 

 decreasing and where these changes are taking place. Fortunately, we have 



Map 



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exact figures from the U. S. Census for the years 1890, 1900 and 1910. These 

 are illustrated in Circular 116, two of the maps of which are reproduced here- 

 with, Figs. 20 and 21. Each dot on these maps represent one percent of decrease 

 within the ten-year period preceding the date of the map. A cross in the map 

 of a township indicates that the figures for that township have for some reason 

 been indeterminate and therefore have been thrown out. 



We would call your attention to the fact that in 70 per cent of the 

 townships of the state there were actually fewer rural people in 1910 than 

 in 1900; that in spite of increases by birth to the rural population there was 

 a net loss in the total number of rural people of the state within that decade 

 of 112,707; that, averaging this total loss among the 1352 rural townships, 

 there was an average loss per township in rural population in spite of births, 



