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��HISTORY OF RICHLAND COUNTY.

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��pear to be the result of any defect in the soil nor infirmity in the vine : but of some peculiar atmospheric agency, which growers as yet do not understand. The prevailing opinion is that it is the result of excessive rainfall, followed by hot, sultry weather, and that it will disap- pear as the seasons change.

The following statistics will give the reader a pretty accurate idea of the wealth of the county as represented in the last agTicul- tural report made to the Auditor for the year 1879.

There was sown in wheat, 36,030 acres, on which were grown 669,887 bushels ; rye, 730 acres, 9,499 bushels ; buckwheat, 143 acres, 1,118 bushels ; oats, 23,738 acres, 804,274 bushels ; barley, 144 acres, 4,168 bushels ; corn 31,243 acres, 1,020,412 bushels ; meadow, 22,- 1 1 5 acres, 28,041 tons hay ; clover, 13,206 acres, 11,133 tons hay, 5,981 bushels seed ; 739 acres, plowed under for manure ; flax, 248 acres, 2,121 bushels seed ; patatoes, 1,445 acres, 91,- 052 bushels; tobacco, 1 acre planted, 400 pounds produced; butter, 827,305 pounds produced; cheese, 9,728 pounds ; sorghum, 31 acres, 156 pounds sugar, 4,632 gallons syrup ; maple su- gar in 1879, 38,589 pounds sugar, 17,417 gal- lons syrup; beehives, 2,137, 23,918 pounds honey ; grapes and wine, 25 acres planted in the year 1878, whole number of acres in the vineyard in 1878, 284; in 1878, 190,005 pounds of grapes gathered, and 245 gallons of wine produced. Sweet potatoes, 2 acres, 199 bushels ;

��orchards, 6,795 acres, 961,853 bushels apples, 21,416 bushels peaches, 2,067 bushels pears. Lands owned in 1878— 1 48,852 acres, cultivated; 41,469 acres, pasture; 68,261 acres, wood; 3,849 acres, other uncultivated land ; total 269,- 556. Wool, 227,154 pounds shorn ; sheep killed, 285, value, $788 ; sheep injured, 168, estimate of injury done, $206.50 ; aggregate of injury done to sheep by dogs, $1,070.50; domestic animals died from disease, 888 head, value, ' $2,225 ; sheep, 1,096 head, value, $2,491 ; cat- tle, 241 head, value, $4,589 ; horses, 113 head, value, $7,025.

The personal property in the county is thus exhibited in the same report :

Value of bonds, etc., exempt from taxation, $76,700 ; horses, 10,329, value, $526,732 ; cat- tle, 23,075, value, $306,521; mules, etc., 245, value, $12,210; sheep, 63.310, value, $147,801 ; hogs, 31,751, value, $65,503 ; carriages, 5,888, value, $187,072; all other personal property, in- cluding bank capital and corpoi;ation property, $437,115 ; watches, 1,232, value, $24,154 ; pianos and organs, 887, value, $63,148.

The total value of all stocks, bonds, moneys and credits, is estimated at $3,062,289, there are 3,440 dogs, whose value (fixed by owners), is $4,334.

From the above reports the entire value of personal property is estimated at $4,838,^79. This, added to the value of real property, gives a total value of taxable property in the county of more than $14,000,000.

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