The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1875-12-03
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pecial Correspondence OF the Cincinnati
THE AGRICULTURE OF OHIO.

pecial Correspondence OF the Cincinnati
Gazette.I
THE AGRICULTURE OF OHIO.
Search After Forty Bushels of Wheat 10 the Acre
Replies to Secretary KIippart's Iuqui-ies-Tre-
nendoas Yield In Ssndusky County.
Mr.. John II. Klippart, the indefatiga
BILE Secretary of the Ohio State Board
of Agriculture, has been endeavoring TO
ascertain whether the production of
forty bushels of wheas to the acre in
Ohio is one of the lost arts. The Board
requires at least that much in order to
entitle the grower Of a crop to a premi-
um, and many farmers had declared
that this standard ought to be lowered.
II SO, then it was evidence either that
the fertility of Ohio soil either had
diminished, or that the processes of ag
ricultural industry in this State, instead
of advancing towards perfection, bad
actually been impaired. Mr.. KIippart
did not believe that either of these were
true. Up to 1886 or 1910, forty bushels
to the acre was not an uncommon crop
of wheat in many counties of Ohio,
more especially Stark, Wayne, Holmes,
Richland and Tuscarawas 1t is rather
melancholy fact, however, that since
the annual enumeration of acres and
bushels has been made, there is not
county that has reported an average
crop of twenty bushels to the acre.
THE SEARCH.
Ir order to ascertain the facts, Mr.. X.
issued last year a circular TO the Secre-
taries of all agricultural societies in the
State, asking the names and post Office
address of all the farmers in their re-
spective counties that had grown as
much as forty bushels of wheat to the
acre.
From Ashtabula he obtained no names
of farmers who had done this, although
the Secretary, B. Jay Pinney, ''pre-
sumed there were SUCH"
From Champaign he obtained the
names of d. Nicewander, fifty-two
bushels; Mr.. Clark, tenant for Jesse C.
Phillips, forty five bushels, and Jacob
Mumma, Joseph Eichslberger, James g.
Caldwell and w. ]. w. Rawlings, each
as much as forty bushels.
None of the sort could be ascertained
in Clarke, Columbiana or Crawford
that is, none could be ascertained by the
Secretaries, although tie Bucyrus
Forum reported that w. B. Tobias
raised ninety-one bushels of the Fultz
variety on two acres of ground.
]. F. Martz had heard of nothing
Higher than thirty one bushels in Darke
county, John C. Vanden says positively
that no farmer in Gallia came up to
forty bushels, and none was known in
Guernsey.
E. D. Simonds says that in Hardin
county Robert Morrison an HI. M. Shin
gle both obtained forty bushels; none
was known in Harrison, Holmes, Hook
ing or jackson. G. w. Harbarger
writes from the latter county: ''The
farmers of this county seldom obtain
more than they SOW. Twenty-Five
bushels to the acre is considered an ex-
traordinary CROP"
G.. E. Critchfield says ''there is not an
ecre of land in Knox county that pro-
duced anything near forty bushels of
wheat
C. A. Stevens knows of no crop in
Licking county higher than that of j.
w. McMillen, thirty-two aud a half
bushels, and none was known in Lucas
or Meigs.
But light breaks in from an unex-
pected quarter, and Philo LIE Blond, of
Mercer, furnishes the names of Stephen
Howick, Edward M. Piper, Eva Adams,
Peter Frysinger, George Myers, and
Thomas McGee, of that county, each of
whom obtained as much as forty bushels
of wheat to the acre.
Thomas Hammond gives the name of
but one farmer i'll Morgan county, Mil
liam s. Leighty, who produced forty
bushels, and next to him was III. n. Hop
kius. who obtained thirtv-fige bushels
No one came up to the standard in
Pauiding county. j. Il. Comfy says
1'quite a number claim to have done it
in Perry county" "and John Maidlo~, of
Putnam county, obtained the magniti-
cent yield of 557 bushels and nine
pounds from eleven acres, and 116 rods
of land bring nearly forty eight bushels.
to the acre
In Shelby county James s. Reed re-
ports that ID. v. bingham raised an
average of forty bushels to the acre on
712 acres, and A l 2 bushels on 1-2
acres (white smooth Linton wheat), and
that Stephen Combs and Stephen john
son each obtained Forty bushels of Fultz
wheat to the acre.
4. H. B. Correll says he has mo
means of knowing what farmers in
Stark county obtained forty bushels of
wheat to the acre." the best done in
Trdmbull was by John Reeves, 80 5 Z
bushels, and the next best by A. c. Full
Ier, thirty-one bushels. The best heard
of in Washington county -as Cyrus
Ames, who obtained twenty eight bush
els; but in Wood county Asa Smith,
John APPEL and Henry Thomas each OBJ
tanned as much as forty bushels.
Bat Sandusky county takes the palm,
for I. N. Keeler reports that one farmer
there obtained forty-eight bushels to the
acre, another fifty four, and another
sixty-two. Unfortunately Mr. Kecler's
statement was in'sofne way mislaid, and
the names of the farmers obtaining
these extraordinary yields can not be
given here.
Seeding to Grass.
The best time for seeding land TO grass
Is the time which the enterprising farmer
wishes to adopt, and how is he to find
out when that is, unless he tries seeding
at different seasons of the year? Allow
ing that all plants under culture are in
an artificial state, and in circumstances
that are unnatural to them, yet under
such circumstances natural laws have
not been entirely ignored. have been