Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-08-31
MUCH LIVESTOCK
IN BUCKEYE STATE
Number and Value Shows Big
Increase, Says Official.
Wool Is at Highest Price Ever Known,
Selling for rs and 80 Cenes In
Gold, According to Tax
Assessors.


Selling for rs and 80 Cents In
Gold, According to Tax
Assessors.
Columbus.-(Specia l.)-Ohio is re-
gaining her lost prestige in the num-
Der and value of her livestock. The
state today has more hogs, cattle,
sheep and horses than any year in the
last quarter century, according to Of
fetal compilation of livestock statis-
tics made by State Auditor Donahey
from reports of tax assessors.
The value of these animals is great
ly in excess of other years, also. The
results obtained speaks well for the
"self-listing" plan of taxation, tried
for the first time in Ohio this year,
Donahey says. The only decrease in
livestock was in the number of mules,
and Donahey accounts for this by so
many being sent to France to do their
bit in making the world safe for
democracy"
Assessors reports shows an in
crease of 58,903 in the number of
horses owned by Ohio farmers and
city men over the number listed for
taxes in 1916. The total number list
ed this year was 941, 1,319, the largest
number in the states history. Darke
county leads with 21,344: Six other
counties have more than $4,000 each.
They are Cuyahoga, Montgomery,
Wood, Licking, Stark and Wayne.
Notwithstanding the fact that there
are approximately 31S,000 automo-
biles in use in the state today, there
are more horses than ever.
Only once in the states history, in
1860, were there more cattle in
Ohio's pastures than today. The total
number returned for taxes was 1922
426, an increase of 138,385 over last
year. The high tide, at the beginning
Of the Civil ;rar, vas 1,902,772. After
the Civil war decline ensued, the
ebb being reached in 1897, when only
1,174,094 cattle We're found by the as
SCISSORS. Licking county now holds
first place in number of cattle with
36,586. Ashtabula is a close second
Trumbull, Drake and Muskingum all
have more than 10000.
For the first time in many years
sheep show an increase, the number
listed this year being 1,547,398, an in.
crease of 1880 over last year. In
1868 there were 7,688,845 sheep in
/ Ohio.
fc o% hA oh 7NT-i0
ever known, selling for rs and sc
cents in gold. In the Civil war, the
previous high record, wool sold for SC
cents pound in gold.
Fifty years ago there were rs coun
ties which had more than 100000 head
Of sheep each and as late as 1885,
there were still Is counties with more
than 100000, and Licking county al
one time had 227,604. Today there
is not a single county with 100,00(
head of sheep. Knox comes the near
est with 1857, and Harrison, Lick
gan come next in order. Scioto coun
ty was at the bottom with only 100.
head. Since 1914 there have beel
fewer sheep thaa hogs.
At the present price of hogs, bette
tnan Is cents a pound, the 2,160,07-
bogs now owned in Ohio will be wortl
nearly $100,OOO.000 by autumn, Dona
hey figures. The record number 0
hogs in Ohio was in 1862, when tn,
total reached 2,765,900. The minimum
number in the last 75 years was il
1893, when the figures dropped to l
139,551. There were 431,376, NOR
hoge this year than last. Fayett
county leads with 7O,317. Darke is
close second with 66,938. Cuyahog
is at the foot with only 2,452.
The total number OF mules was 80
032, a decrease of 2,393 over last veal
Hamilton county for years has hel
first honors for thesb pesky brute'
Orleans Receive Amy Positions.
Col. Julius A. Penh of the regula
army, who has been stationed in CC
lumbus for the last several weeks a
chief mastering officer for the Obi
guardsmen, was among the regula
army officers nominated to be brig;
dier general The following Obi
brigadier generals were made majc
generals:
: A. P. Blocksom, formerly militar
instructor at Ohio State university
2 Joseph T. Dickman, Findlay; Clarenc
: R. Edwards, Cleveland, and Charlie
;, W. Kennedy, Portsmouth.
s The following Ohio colonels wei
: promoted to be brigadier generals:
: George K. Hunter, Lancaster; Grot
Hutcheson, Newton, Hamilton county
: Dan B. Devore, William F. Marti
Xenia; julius A. Penn, Batavis
/. James T. Dean, Ironton; Edwin Wi
q tenmeyer, West Union, Adams cou
= ty; Frank H. Albright, William
v Johnstone, Carl Reichman, former
d inspector general of the Ohio guard
Q Columbus and now chief of the milit
Q division of the central departmer
g Fakes in Seed Wheat.
7 A new name to an old variety
i wheat improves it's selling qualities
the hands of an unscrupulous deale
h High sounding names and extravagal
f prices go together. Generally tt
O claim is made that less seed per &C
a is required. One peck per acre is Il
n recommendation for some of thes
+ Since so little seed is required, Il
J. price is at least correspondingly hig
q Within the past few years one
c these varieties was distributed und
4 the name of Marvellous, Miracle al
q Stoner. On investigation this W
not found to be superior to the goo
Fatten Chickens in Crates.
Farmers who dress and retail the
ID poultry or who ship to nearby ms
IS ket which can be reached within
D. few hours, should crate-feed eve
ID chicken they SELL" says M. c. Kilp
u rick of the College of Agriculture.
o. this is done, their output of poult
If meat will be increased from 25 to
per cent.
70 Not all of the chickens produced
pr Ohio can be fattened on the farms
ID which they were grown. The fattt
IF ing of chickens makes the flesh II