Crop Statistic Report
It’s that time of year again-fried foods, fun games, and entertainment, otherwise known as Fair Season! It’s the opportunity for farmers to show off their best livestock, and for the rest of us to marvel at how cute the animals are. So for this month’s “Living in the County Archive” we are celebrating all that goes in to agricultural production and studying the 1914 Crop Statistics volumes. The Records and Archives department is currently in possession of Crop Statistics Volume 65, which is for the year 1914. Volume 65 is broken up in to three books by township. Township numbers 1-10 include: Bennington, Bowling Green, Burlington, Eden, Etna, Fallsbury, Franklin, Granville, and Hanover. Township numbers 11-19 include: Harrison, Hartford, Hopewell, Jersey, Licking, Liberty, Lima, McKean, and Madison. Lastly, township numbers 20-27 include: Mary Ann, Monroe, Newark, Newton, Perry, St. Albans, Union, and Washington. The purpose of crop statistics is to gather trends for plan