Ohio had 2,000 grist mills to grind its wheat into flour. Considered the best quality flour in the nation, it brought substantially higher prices than the flour produced in other states. In fact, ...

In 1900, 50 percent of Ohio’s population was on the farm, down from 82 percent on the farm just 35 years before. Agriculture was becoming more mechanized, requiring fewer people to accomplish the same ...

THE bulky volume before us is as full of interest as its predecessors, and as profusely illustrated. Its contents are extremely various, for, as mentioned in the preface, there is not a single bureau, ...