Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1876-06-23
FACTS AND FIGURES.

IT only costs $4,000 to get up Cen
tennial show.
Few people are aware that there is
greater area of gold and silver in the United
States than of anthracite coal.
REAL ESTATE in New York and vicini-
ty is Just now held down so firmly by
the mortgage power that it cannot rise at
all.
THE hydrophobia machines of this coun-
try (some people call them dogs) are kept
running at an expense of $70,000,000 a
year.
ACCORDING to the new Directory, San
Francisco has now a population of
272, 345 souls, gain of AZ 900 during the
last year.
THE exports of France to England In
the first three months of the current year
amounted to $50,000,000; these of Great
Britain to France, $18,000,000.
FIFTY THOUSAND men in South Austria
liza support thrice that number of women
and children, occupy 200, 900 square miles
Of pastoral country, own 100000 acres
of land and 1000, 900 sheep, grow 12, ,000s-
900 bushels of wheat, conduct an external
commerce of 50, 900, 900 sterling, and raise
e1 ,000, 900 of revenue.
In order to have fertile and product.
i've soil there must be generous supply
of available ammonia, potash and other
mineral elements, which the growing
plants can take up. Without a proper
management of nitrogen, potash and phos-
phoric acid no farmer can be in high
degree successful. He grows no plant
upon his farm which does not contain
them. He sells no product, vegetable or
animal, which does not carry them away.
He has no soil rich enough to endure for
any considerable length Of time the draft
made upon it for these substances by
plants without losing its fertility. They
must be supplied or exhaustion follows
There are in 200 pounds of wheat, % !;
of oats, 22; of peas, AZ; of potatoes, 10;
and of red clover hay, 21 pounds of nitro
gen, respectively. In 1000 pounds of
wheat there are 237 of corn, 250; of oats,
1873; of potatoes, 515, and Of clover, 161
pounds of potash, respectively. In 1000
pounds of wheat there are 49S of corn,
sol of oats, 149; of potatoes, 113, and of
clover, 63 pounds, respectively, of phos.
phoric acid.-N. Y. Herald.
THE ninth annual report of the Com
missioner of Railroads for the State of
Ohio, Just published, furnishes the fol-
lowing statistics "There were but S61S
miles of track laid in Ohio last year, 1876
miles less than the previous year. The
total number of passengers carried was
1913 ,94S, an increase over the previous
year of 1,706,654. The total number of
tons of freight carried was 25,750, sol, an
increase Of 49, ,725. The gross earnings
of all the lines were $64, ,945, 1926. SO,
against $70.328, 194.67 last year, decline
of Sc, ,432 ,S6S.S4, or nearly ten per cent.
The net earnings were $17, ,515, ,6S6. "a,
against $40, 798, ,169 80 for the year previ-
Gus, being 9, 2,272, 482 ,43 less, or fraction
over eleven per cent. decrease, and
amounting to only three per cent upon
the paid in capital stock and Indebtedness
of the companies owning the lines opera.
ted. Passenger earnings were $17, ,116,.
524.4S, a falling off of S., ,779.S2 from last
year. The earnings from freight trans.
portation were $43, ,230, ,930.11 being $6,-
377, ,646.41 less than the amount derived
from this source last year, and decrease
Of 1888 per cent. The total net debt OF
railway companies in Ohio is $1G1 PAT, ;.
0S6.24. The total increase of debt, S..
S13 100 OF