the ten-year period from 1900 to 1910
there was, according to the United States Census reports, an increase in
the total value of farm property in the State of nearly 60 per cent.

TABLE IX

SALARIES OF METHODIST EPISCOPAL COUNTRY MINISTERS, 1917

Key:
1 _No. of ministers_
2 _Average salary (including estimated rental value of parsonage)_
3 _No. of charges giving salaries less than $1,500_
4 _Per cent_
5 _No. of charges giving salaries less than $1,200_
6 _Per cent_
7 _No. of charges giving salaries less than $1,000_
8 _Per cent_

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
State 688 $993 662 96 513 75 303 44
Ohio Conference 151 $972 145 96 110 73 79 52
West Ohio Conference 237 $1,004 230 97 184 78 87 37
Northeast Ohio
Conference 300 $995 287 96 219 73 137 46

TABLE X

SALARIES OF COUNTRY MINISTERS, UNITED BRETHREN IN CHRIST, 1917

Key:
1 _No. of ministers_
2 _Average salaries (including estimated rental value of parsonage)_
3 _Salaries less than $1,500_
4 _Per cent_
5 _Salaries less than $1,200_
6 _Per cent_
7 _Salaries less than $1,000_
8 _Per cent_

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
State 188 $787 188 100 171 91 135 72
Sandusky Conference 63 $866 63 100 58 92 39 62
Southeast Ohio
Conference 47 $687 47 100 43 91 37 79
Miami Conference 42 $779 42 100 37 88 30 71
East Ohio Conference 36 $787 36 100 33 92 29 80

CHAPTER III

TABULAR SUMMARY BY COUNTIES

Table F is a summary of the principal facts disclosed by this
investigation. These facts are given for the strictly rural townships in
each of the different counties. They do not include the urban or suburban
townships. Being intended to present the facts only as to the rural part
of each county, they should not be used as representing entire counties or
the State as a whole.

In the ten-year period from 1900 to 1910 there was a decline in the
population of the strictly rural townships of 3.6 per cent. In only 21
counties out of the total of 88 did the rural townships increase in
population, and most of these are in mining and manufacturing regions. In
the strictly agricultural parts