Seventy-three counties 55,079,374
Darke county 524,484
Twelve counties, average 8,400,000
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Total 64,003,858

This is an advance of 15 per cent. on the crop of 1840, and it is known that the crop of 1850 was better than that of 1849.  The number of acres planted, and the average production was:—­

Acres planted 1,810,947
Bushels produced 64,003,858
Average per acre 35-3/8 bush.

Considering how large a portion of hill land is planted, and how many fields are ill cultivated, the average is high.  Many persons have believed that taking all years and all lands into view, the average of corn lands was not more than thirty bushels.  But the immense fertility of bottom lands on the rivers and creeks of Ohio make up for bad cultivation and inferior soil.  We may see something of the differences in the production of corn, by taking the averages of different counties, thus:—­

Acres.        Crop.        Average. 
Butler       62,031     2,646,353       421/2
Warren       42,322     1,757,409       42
Pickaway     65,860     2,627,727       40
Ross         69,520     2,918,958       42

Compare the average of these counties, which embrace some of the best lands in the State, with the following:—­

Acres.        Crop.        Average. 
Carroll      10,107       316,999       32
Jackson      15,680       439,850       30
Monroe       23,375       728,242       31
Portage      10,426       329,529       32
Vinton       11,413       345,470       30

The last counties contain but little bottom land, and hence the average of corn is reduced one-fourth in amount.  Of these counties, two are full of coal and iron.  The resources of the last are more slow to develop, but in the end will be equally valuable.

But a small quantity of the corn of Ohio is exported as grain.  It is first manufactured into other articles, and then exported in another form.  The principal part of these are hogs, cattle, and whiskey.  It is difficult to say exactly how much corn is in this way exported, but the following is an approximation—­

                      Bushels. 
  In Fat Cattle 4,000,000
  In Fat Hogs 10,000,000
  In Whiskey 2,500,000
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      Total 16,500,000

Taking into view the export of corn meal—­about twenty millions of bushels—­the residue goes to the support of the stock animals on hand, of which there are near three millions, exclusive of those fatted for market.

The exported corn in the shape of cattle, hogs, and whiskey, is worth about thirty cents cash, while on the farm it is not worth twenty—­thus proving that it is more profitable to consume corn on the farm, than to export it in bulk.  This fact is well known to good farmers, who seldom attempt to sell corn as a merchantable article.