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 of Franklin, Fairfield, Miami and Licking Counties there was an increase of from 2 to 5 per cent, in Medina and Wayne of less than 1 per cent. In the other 67 counties there was a decline, ranging all the way from 1 per cent in Erie, Geauga, and Hamilton to 17 per cent in Paulding. The average population of the strictly rural townships varies from 904 in Knox County to 2,743 in Miami, and averages 1,448 for the State. The number of rural churches for a county varies from 32 in Sandusky and Lake Counties to 130 in Washington. The number of churches to a township is five for the State, but varies from 3 in Portage, Huron, Delaware, Geauga, Cuyahoga, and Ashtabula Counties to 9 in Allen and Stark. The average number of persons to each country church is 280 for the State, but varies from 182 in Vinton County to 433 in Cuyahoga. The number of open country churches varies from 5 in Butler County to 82 in Washington. The number of churches with a resident minister varies from 9 in Jackson County to 45 in Wood. The number of churches without a resident minister varies from 17 in Lake County to 103 in Washington. Those with full time service of a minister vary in number from 1 in Pickaway, Noble, and Jackson Counties to 25 in Columbiana and Wayne. In one county, Wyandot, there are no churches without some part of a minister's time. In Clermont County there are no less than 30 of them. TABLE F SUMMARY BY COUNTIES OF DATA FOR THE 1,170 STRICTLY RURAL TOWNSHIPS