* -º §. º. ºz º.º. r *$.” ***, 3. .* > * 4 *.e. 3. * > 3. * + ** -, * , * * * * " ;...º.º. 2 º’s ". "...jºz - *3. -- r tº: º # º: & *...* tº: º: Y. *"…; ºłº §º sº *::::::...º.º...'…' ...º. * > . .” ... -- 㺠- * * ** ... .º ‘. . . . . . * ~ - Series-5. Number 15 • eries-o, TN tºmbef * - * - - *. - . . . - w - .." • RY IN OHIO . . . . . . BY - s - - - * , - ..~ * - s ~ + - - - -: - - -- 2. THOMAS F. HUNT, Dean of the College of Agriculture and Domestic Science, a * . . . . . . . . . . Ohio state University. - .." - • 3 - º *- . º ExCERPT FROM THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE FIFTY-SIXTH ANNUAL STATE ". * AGRICULTURAL CONVENTION. .. “. . * ~ - 4. - -- - … . . . . . . . . . . . . COLUMBUS . ". sº - . . . . . . . . . . PUBLISHED BY THE UNIVERSITY - - . . . . . . . . . . . . . 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During the first half of this century, Ohio and Kentucky, but especially Ohio, was the center of the live stock trade in America. I.et us pause here and turn back the pages of history to July 13, 1787, when the Congress of Confederation, as- sembled in New York City, enacted the famous ordinance of the Northwest Terri- tory. Just fifteen days after this memorable ordinance was enacted, Congress passed an act, which disposed of five million acres of land in Ohio at about ten cents per acre. One and one-half million acres of this land went to the Ohio Company, which the mext year established the first permanent settlement in Ohio at the mouth of the Muskingum river. Three and one-half million acres were said to have been “for private speculation in which many of the principal characters of America were concerned,” and out of which grew the famous Scioto Company, called by Mc- Master, the first great land job of the Republic. The same Congress granted to John Cleve Symmes two million acres between the Little and Great Miamis. By every art known to the land agent, the tide of immigration into the Ohio Valley was swelled into a torrent. The canvas-covered wagon with the sign “To Marietta on the Ohio” carried so much of the fresh, young, able blood of the East as to create alarm. One authority estimates that ten thou- sand immigrants went by Marietta in 1788. In the East anti-emigration pam- phlets were issued. One of these represented a stout, ruddy, robust, well-dressed man on a fat, sleek horse, with the label, “l am going to Ohio,” meeting a pale and ghastly skeleton of a man, scarcely half dressed, on a wreck of what was once a horse, with a label, “I have been to Ohio.” The Muskingum, the Scioto and the Miami Valleys were soon populated and very productive they proved to be, but it was necessary to do something besides produce. It was necessary to sell. To wagon flour over the Allegheny Mountains on almost impassable roads to New York, Philadelphia, or Baltimore, was largely out of the question. - When that band of forty-seven immigrants landed on the bank of the Mus- kingum and thus began the first permanent settlement of Ohio, Louisiana was a Spanish territory, and New Orleans was a considerable and thriving town, cut off, however, from trade with the Ohio Valley by Spanish arms, which guarded the Mississippi river. On the year before the Indiana side of the Ohio was permanently settled, a general, and of course a colonel, of Kentucky, by name James. Wilkinson, deter- mined to raise this embargo, which by diplomacy, that is, by downright lying, he succeeded in doing, and in January, 1788, twenty-five flat boats loaded with flour, bacon, tobacco, butter and hams, guarded by one hundred and fifty armed, well drilled and officered men, moved out into the Ohio and floated down the Missis- — 1 — H 4870]. — 2 — sippi river to the Crescent City. Thus opened a hazardous but profitable trade to the Ohio valley settlers. It was long before the days of steamboats. To float flatboats down the Ohio and Mississippi rivers was sufficiently hazardous, but to walk back through a wild, and sometimes hostile, country was a task only for adventurous and courageous men. There was, however, no lack of men willing to strive for the profits, and the trade grew to tremendous proportions, which con- tinued until after the war of 1812. w With the amazing immigration into and the development of the Ohio valley it was not many years before the Supply exceeded the demand, and it was seen that some other outlet must be found. At this juncture George Renick, of Ross Coun- ty, proposed driving fat beeves to the Eastern seaboard. In 1805 he crossed the Alleghenies with sixty-eight head of fat steers, and drove them into Baltimore in good condition, selling them at a profit. Thus a new industry started, which, as the flour trade with New Orleans had formerly done, grew with great rapidity, and continued for many years. In 1817 Felix Renick drove one hundred head of fat steers through to Philadelphia, receiving for them one hundred and thirty-four dollars per head. A year later George Renick drove through to New York the first Western cattle ever seen there, which sold for sixty-nine dollars per head. The Virginia practice of grazing cattle and fattening them out of doors with shock corn was transplanted to this soil and climate, and thus became a fixed cus- tom of American agriculture. Imported with this practice from Virginia were some English cattle, which subsequently exerted a far-reaching influence. They had much to do in making the Ohio valley the cradle of shorthorn breeding in America. Many were the importations of shorthorn cattle into this region, but none were more noteworthy, perhaps, than those of the Ohio Importing Com- pany, a company formed in 1833 by about fifty men of the Scioto valley, in which Felix and George Renick were again the leading spirits. In 1836 this com- pany sold at public auction forty-three imported shorthorns at an average of eight hundred and three dollars and twenty-five cents. In 1837 the same company sold fifteen head at an average of one thousand and seventy-one dollars and sixty-five cents. There is not time in a brief talk of this kind to trace the rise and decadence of the dairy industry on the Western Reserve; to tell of the legacy that the farm- ers of southwestern Ohio, through the establishment of Poland-China swine and the merchants of Cincinnati through the establishment of packing houses, be: queathed to the swine industry of America, nor is there time to do credit to the sheep breeders of eastern Ohio and western Pennsylvania. In 1850 nearly one- fifth of all the sheep raised in the United States were raised in Ohio. In 1825 the national road was completed into eastern Ohio. In 1832 the Ohio and Erie canal had been built from Portsmouth to Cleveland. The first railroad was built in Ohio in 1836. In 1852 eight hundred and ninety miles of railroad were in operation. These agencies gave the Ohio farmer a market, and right well did he take advantage of it. It was the days of great prosperity for the Ohio farmer. The eastern farmer, on his relatively poor and high-priced land, suffered severely by this competition. But silently as a thief in the night new factors arose to steal away the Ohio farmer's trade. The railroads had pushed their way into the fertile and treeless plains that for ages had lain ready for the plow. On these prairies countless herds could be pastured without cost for land. By 1850, the mower; by 1860, the reaper; by 1880, the self-binding harvester, made possible a development of the West, the like of which the world had never before seen. With it came millions of bushels of oats and corn, and millions of tons of hay and straw, which before they had any practical value must be turned into animal product. With the con- — 3 — solidation of the railroads in the great transcontinental lines, and with the es- tablishment of steamboat navigation upon the lakes, the live stock industry of Ohio suffered from the same fierce competition of the West that the Eastern farmer had been suffering from his Ohio neighbor. The prostration would have been much more serious had it not been for the unparalleled local markets, which the farmers of Ohio enjoy. Those farmers, who realized the change in the situation and adjusted their business to meet it, however, in the last quarter of the century, have gotten along comfortably, and some have made considerable money, but with many who did not the story has been different. Such is the very brief and very inade- quate sketch of the live stock industry of Ohio in the past. What of its future? Every one knows, who is at all conversant with the live stock industry of this country, that the blood of the live stock man has again begun to boil. During the past year some of the old records' in the way of prices have been smashed and new ones made; breeding cattle selling in four figures is again a common occurrence. In December, at Chicago, a carload of premium steers at public auction sold for fifteen dollars a hundred. The well-named steer, “Advance,” champion at the International Live Stock Exposition, sold at public auction for one dollar and fifty cents per pound, or for two thousand one hundred and forty-five dollars. No one claims the steer was worth this money for beef, but it was in no sense a fictitious price. It is an indication of the times. It strikes me as very significant that men daily ship cream, and sometimes milk, through Columbus to be used in the retail trade of Pittsburg. A gentleman has recently been trying to establish a milk-condensing company in Columbus. He is a commission merchant from Philadelphia. He claims that he is interested in establishing a factory in order that he may have more condensed milk to sell in Philadelphia. If this be true (I do not assert it is true), it is very significant. Is this only a boom ? It certainly is a boom, and a boon as well to the live stock man. Is the boom going to burst 7 Let us get right close to this sub- ject for a moment. Here is a chart that shows the number of domestic animals in the United States yearly for the past thirty years according to the estimates of the United States Department of Agriculture. With these figures I have con- nected the census returns for 1860. (Here the speaker traced the course taken by each class of domestic animals as shown on the chart.) It is here only neces- sary to recall that in 1870 the United States had not yet recovered from the effects of the most disastrous civil war of modern times. It would be intensely interesting to trace the progress of the live stock industry during the past thirty years. Time, however, forbids. I must ask you to take it in at a glance. This line (pointing to the population line) shows that the increase in population has been practically uniform since 1870. In order to compare this increase of pop- ulation with the decrease of live stock, I have added the number of sheep and swine together and divided the sum by five. The result I have added to the num- bers of horses, mules, milch cows and other cattle. The sum is what I call animal units. A glance at the upper line shows that the number of live stock began to increase 'sharply in 1875. From that year up to 1892 the live stock of the United States increased more rapidly than the population. Whatever the causes of this increase, it was made possible by the development of the vast coun- try west of the Mississippi river, an area considerably over twice as large as that east of the Mississippi. Now observe what happened. 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