252 THE CULTIVATOR. Ado 
many of the causes tried at our county courts, the costs 
exceed the damages; and the parties are the worse off, 
both in a moral and pecuniary point of view. Jurors 
and witnesses are called from their business, and the 
people taxed to pay judges, jurors, &c. Suits are fre¬ 
quently determined by some technicality of the law, and 
not by strict justice. The parties often resort to in¬ 
trigue and management to gain their suit, which they 
would not otherwise do. But few men if any, who are 
frequently engaged in lawsuits, sustain a good moral 
character. A civil suit, commenced in the first instance, 
in a justices' court, (or a trifling amount, often gets a 
whole neighborhood by the ears;, and is the cause of 
divers slander suits, indictments for assault and battery, 
perjury, &c. Thus they are harrassed by being called 
to the county seats as witnesses; many of them take 
sides with one or the other of the parties. Bitter and 
unkind feelings are engendered, and a looseness of mo¬ 
ral principle, prejudicial to good morals, and good socie¬ 
ty is the natural consequence. 
If, in traveling, you pass a huddle of houses in a di¬ 
lapidated condition, and where almost everything in 
the vicin'ty bears marks of sioth and negligence, you 
may set it down as morally certain, that justices'courts 
are frequent, and the people are given to litigation; 
and that the only persons, if any, who make money, are 
the rumseller, the pettifogger, justice and constable. 
How then are these evils, (and all must admit them 
as such,) to be remedied ? Let every farmer make up 
bis mind uot to have a lawsuit, unless it is absolutely 
necessary. Let him as a general thing, sell his pro¬ 
duce for ready pay; pay down for what he buys, deal 
honorably and uprightly, adopt the rule of “ doing as 
he would wish to be done by,” and he will seldom be 
in a situation in which a suit will be necessary. We 
can find many farmers, sixty or seventy years of age, 
who never had a suit in their lives, and the writer of 
this is one of the number. 
Let the most influential farmers take this course, and 
advise all others to do the same. Let all those who 
are fond of lawsuits and quarrels, know that they lose 
character and standing by them; and it is believed that 
agricultural districts would be much improved, both in 
a moral, pecuniary and social point of view. The farmers 
are from their peaceful ant! retired situation ; from their 
independence and occupation, exactly in a right situation 
to commence and carry out a reform of this nature, 
and would themselves bo the greatest gainers bv it. 
When I see a young farmer fond of attending law¬ 
suits; often taking sides with one or the other of the 
parties, frequently a •witness; studying the nice techni¬ 
calities of the law', and trying to get elected a justice 
or constable, I cannot but think he had better be learn¬ 
ing and practicing the art of good farming; and spend¬ 
ing his leisure time, reading some good works on agri¬ 
culture, moral philosophy, and political economy. Far¬ 
mer. 
Yield of Crops in Ohio. 
We have compiled the following table from the returns 
of the several counties in the state of Ohio, published 
in the Report of the State Board of Agriculture. They 
purport to give the average yield per acre, for 1848. 
Wheat is generally stated to have been considerably 
above an average—other crops about an average, com¬ 
pared with other seasons. Potatoes are said to have 
been injured by the “ disease” in most instances, and in 
several counties, where the yield is not given it is men¬ 
tioned as a failure—not more than five to twenty bush¬ 
els of sound tubers per acre having been obtained. 
Some other crops are noticed in the returns—such as 
buckwheat, and, in a few instances, tobacco. The 
yield of the former ranges from twelve to thirty-seven 
bushels per acre ; and that of the latter from 600 to 
2000 pounds per acre. 
COUNTIES. 
Hay. 
Tons. 
1 Potatoes.! 
| Bushels. 
Wheat. 
Bushels. 
Kffl 
Barley. 
Bushels. 
1 Oats. 
Bushels. 
li 
p 1 
Adams,... 
12 
106 
on 
Athens,... 
li 
100 
15 
25 
40 
Aslitai ula,... 
150 
15 
40 
45 
Ashland, ..... 
1} 
40 
10 
15 
15 
30 
50 
Champaigne,... 
1 
75 
16 
30 
45 
Carroll,. 
5 
2± 
50 
15 
20 
35 
38 
45 
Clinton,... 
40 
20 
35 
45 
Columbiana,. 
2 
17 
35 
50 
35 
Clark, . 
li 
100 
IS 
15 
40 
40 
Cuyahoga,. 
i\ 
10 
12 
40 
35 
Crawford,. 
2 
20 
35” 
33 
40 
Clermont,. 
1 
SO 
15 
’16' 
12 
12 
45 
Coshocton,. 
12 
25 
40 
Erie,. 
2 
25 
15 
32 
35 
35 
Franklin,. 
2 
75 
18 
25 
20 
40 
50 
Delaware, .... .. 
2 
18 
20 
30 
45 
Darke,. 
2 
*70 
20 
25 
20 
35 
50 
Defiance, . 
2 
150 
20 
25 
20 
45 
45 
Fayette,. 
n 
30 
12 
12 
25 
38 
Greene,. 
H 
100 
17 
20 
40t 
30 
50 
Gall a,. 
1-1 
50 
12 
20 
35 
Granger,. 
1 2 
H 
10 
10 
12 
40 
'35 
Guernsey,. 
1* 
’so’ 
14 
25 
40 
40 
Highland,.... 
12 
12 
12 
15 
50 
Henry,. 
11 
50 
18 
45 
45 
Hocking,. 
1 2 
o 
100 
12 
25 
35 
Hardin,. 
2 
174 
14 
30 
33 
35 
Hamilton, (averages not given) 
Hancock,. 
2 
50 
20 
25 
40 
40 
Huron, (averages not given ).. 
« 
Harrison,. 
15 
35 
40 
Jefferson,. 
It 
15 
15 
40 
35 
40 
Lake,... 
2 
*50 
12 
15 
35 
50 
45 
Licking,. 
2 
100 
18 
15 
25 
30 
50 
Lawrence,. 
1 
50 
10 
20 
30 
Lorain,... 
li 
50 
13 
40 
30 
Mahoning,... 
II 
4U 
6 
30 
40 
40 
Medina,. 
1 2 
n 
10 
30 
40 
35 
Monroe, .. 
ii 
12 
25 
35 
Meigs, . 
n 
*60 
15 
15 
20 
35 
40 
Muskingum,.. 
I6-4 
40 
45 
Miami,. 
ii 
25 
35 
65 
Montgomery,. 
1 2 
m 
18 
15 
25 
30 
45 
JVfnrgaiij _,, 
ii 
20 
30 
35 
Mercer,. 
*2 
2 
m 
15 
10 
18 
20 
25 
Madison,. 
n 
50 
15 
20 
20 
30 
40 
Ottawa,. 
if 
17 
30 
25 
Paulding,. 
2 
ioo 
20 
40 
50 
Putnam,. .. 
3 
150 
13 
25 
25 
50 
Preble,* . 
1 
50 
16 
15 
20 
Portage,. 
14 
50 
9 
8 
20 
35 
40 
Perry,.... 
l 
20 
18 
50 
40 
Pickaway, . 
n 
15 
14 
20 
46 
Richland,. 
2 
15 
15 
40 
35 
Ross,. 
ii 
13 
22 
45 
Seneca,. 
*2 
1 
15 
15 
40 
40 
Summit, . 
H 
9 
12 
15 
35 
40 
Shelby,. 
2 
22 
15 
40 
40 
25 
Stark,. 
2 
50 
15 
20 
30 
50 
Trumbull,... 
14 
60 
10 
17 
20 
*30* 
40 
Tuscarawas,. 
2 
80 
17 
16 
23 
30 
40 
TTninn . 
11 
80 
15 
35 
35 
Van Wert, . . 
1 2 
14 
150 
20 
20 
30 
33 
Washington,. 
l| 
100 
10 
15 
.... 
25 
45 
Warren,.,...... 
14 
100 
15 
12 
2i 
25 
50 
Wayne, . 
2 
18 
20 
45 
35 
Wood. 
14 
'26' 
10 
18 
*18 
34 
34 
Wyandot,.. 
2 
30 
15 
35 
42 
* In this instance the yield is put down at 40bushe’s per acre for 
“ fall barley,” and 20 for “ spring barley.” 
t All the crops in this county, except wheat, greatly injured by 
drouth. 
Agricultural Reading. 
Agricultural pursuits, I deem second in importance 
to none other. It has ever been my delight to see a 
spirit of improvement enlisting the minds of many of 
our most successful farmers, and by observing some of 
their most skillful management, it has been a source of 
pleasure to .glean ideas and profit by them, whenever 
the opportunity offered. I shall ever feel that I owe a 
debt of gratitude to the founder of the first agricultural 
paper that I became familiarly acquainted with— The 
Cultivator. It enlisted a spirit of observation and im¬ 
provement—a spirit of go-akeadat ivemss ,—to advance 
