Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1864-04-02
NUMBER OF ACRES DEVOTED TO THE RAISING
OF WHEAT, CORN AND POTATOES.
tai 10 600 10, $50 600 II 200 600 90 $50, ,OO(

SUCCESS ATTENDANT ON THE CHANGE OF
PRODUCTIONS.
The actual productions of the above
eight States in 1860 were 24,0000O0 bushels
of wheat, 196,000,0O0 bushels of corn, and
36,O00(0) bushels of sweet and Irish pota-
toes. In 1852 they were 35,000000 bushels
of wheat, 300,000000 bushels of corn, and
40,000,000 bushels of potatoes. In 1868,
owing to the increased attention that had
been devoted to the cultivation of these ar
ticles, there were raised in the above States
45,000.000 bushels of wheat, 330.000,000
bushels OF corn, and 50,000,000 bushels of
potatoes. The estimated yield of the pres
ent year, based upon the number of acres
actually known to be under cultivation,
will be 55,000,000 bushels of wheat, 350,-
100000 bushels of corn, and G0,000,000
bushels of sweet and Irish potatoes. The
culture of rice, during all this time, which
has always been a Southern staple, and
which forms large portion and a favoritc
article of the food of the Southern people,
has received proportionate degree of at
tention, and the yield, particularly during
the years 1862 and 1868, has been quite as
large as in former years.
STOCK OF CATTLE AND SUPPLY OF MEAT.
In 1860, there were in the above eight
states 1857, 1000 milch cows, and 5l6,5O0
working oxen, besides an equal number Of
steers raised and fattened for the shambles.
The great demand for beef for food has kept
down the increase of cattle. But by the
strenuous eXertions of the planters In all
the above states, and the attention which
they have bestowed upon the rearing of live
stock, the above numbers have been pretty
nearly maintained constantly. Thusin 1868,
the number efmilch cows was 500, 1000, and
of oxen and steers little over million
head. 1t will be noted that say nothing
here of the beef cattle raised either in Texas
or in Kentucky or Tennessee. During the
first two years of the war, large proportion
of the beef used by the southern armies
came from Texas. And although this will
not be the case this year, 1t may be so in
1865, If the confederate plans succeed; and
the cattle in that state are increasing at
prodigious rate. Large supplies ofbOth cat
tie and hogs are still drawn by tile South
from Tennessee and Kentucky, and this
will no doubt continue to be the case during
this year.
HORSES AND MULES IN THE SOUTH.
At the beginning of the war, there were
in the eight States named above, 0S6,000
head of horses, and $4,000 head of mules;
besides million head of horses in Arkan-
sas, Tennessee, Kentucky, and Texas. A
large proportion of the horses in the four
States last named were made available for
the purposes of the Confedcracy in the years
1861 and 1862. The loss and destruction of
horses at the South, during the war, has not
been SO great as is generally supposed, as
will be seen when l come to speak of the
cavalry of the Southern armies. Great at
tention, too, has been paid to the rearing of
colts; and those that have grown up since
1860 have nearly supplied the losses sus-
tanned by the casualties of war. The esti-
mates of the Confederate War Department
are that there are now in the eight States
above named about seven hundred thou
sand head of horses and three hundred
thousand mules. This includes those that
are now in the military service. But the
Confederate leaders do not depend upon
these alone to supply the losses which they
have and must still sustain. They depend
partly upon Tennessee and Kentucky, and
partly also upon the North, as will be seen
when come to speak of their plans of cam
paign for this year, which win do in my
next letter. DRUID.