The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1873-10-31
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.e1;r.aIe. crop OF the "o'Id
Aqaos.iOn widely dise'i's.i ! involve
tho ,tlstlye value Of the wheat, cot
ton. tea and hay crops OF tie world.
Wb;cb Of those products employ the
o-ss,est amount of the worlds cspi
tslp Iii said that hay leads the rest
and the items that enter into the &C
.ount. as stated, are somewEat start
ling. and viii make 3 Granger's hair
stand on end. Cotton and tea are
local crops, while hay is produced
eyerywbere the world over, aud thus
the hay crop greatly outweighs either
Of the other two. The aggregate re-
ported value OF all farm products for
1870 was $2,447, ,53s, ,s56; but IS this
includes additions TO stocks, "better-
ments," etc., it is probably too high
Now the hay crop for the year-that
is the grass dried and cured for use
or solids reported at over 27.Oo0,-
600 tons. This, at half the selling
prlce in the large cities, would amodnt
to S4O5, 900, 900, and is far greater
than the aggregate home value of the
cotton crop or any otLer crop. But
the cured 'hsy" is but a portion of
the crop. The other portion Is used
on the ground, and it raquIres consid
cradle calculation TO get at the value
so used, even in the toughest way. In
the first place live stock, including
horned cattle, horses, sheep, swine,
ETC., 20 the value OF 81, ,525 900, 900, /
were fed from it that year. AVerag
ing the lives of these at five years, we
have one fifth of that sum as repre-
senting the grass fed TO them in 1870,
w: $3O5. 100000; next we find
the value OF the animals slaughtered
fo- food in that year TO be $500, ,000,-
600, and as this is IN annual product,
the whole of it will Tor the present be
credited TO the grass crop; next We
find that the butter crop OF 1870 was
5l4, 600, 900 pounds, which, at the low
average of 25 cents, amounts TO $685.
0O0, 900, and this goes to the credit
OF grass; next we have 235, 100000
gallons of milk, which, averaged at
the low estimate of ten cents per gal
Ion, adds s25, ,OOO. 900 more to the
credit of The pras crop; then we
have lOO. 900, 600 pounds Of wool, at
25 cents a pound, adding 925. 100000
more, and, finally, So 900 900 pounds
OF cheese, at 10 cents, adding over
IS 600, 900 to the total OF thess cred.
It's to the grass crop of 1870, which I
aggregates 1887 600. 600 Now, let I
us add the value of the shay crop as
given above-viz: S4O2 ,OO0, ,0OO-and
we have grand total for "hay' and
he products of grass consumed on
he ground amounting to 81 ,522, ,OOO,- {
200! This is, of course, = subject TO +
he deduction, as the meat, butter, {
milk, cheese, and wool-producing ami {
nails consume other food besides grass c
nd hay. To make ample allowance t
or this, we deduct the entire value of
be corn and Oat crops of 1870, esti-
mated at $27O, 900, 900, and this leaves
remainder of SI,os2 ,OoO, 900 to be ;,
redited to the hay and grass crop of q
hat year, when the reported aggre !,
ate of all farm products was $2,447,. :,
s,65s If our estimates make even =
be toughest approach 10 accuracy, :.
be value OF that crop was two fiiths :,
{ the aggregate value of all farm :,
roducts, and hence we may inter that
Ro- fifths OF the capital then invested =,
! agricultural pursuits was devoted n
} the grass crop, and tbs in the n
nited States equals, in round num- :.
ers, 81 SIS 600, 600. From these fig nj
res tie deduction is palpsbie that "a
ing Cotton is uncrowned and de n,
roned, and we may be forced to ad in
it that all "flesh" and all Else Is hay, in
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