STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETV. ^9 



Throwing two of these counties, in which there has evidently been 

 gross mistakes out of consideration, we may classify them as follows : 



One County (Ford) has less than ten acres of woodland to the 

 square mile. 



The following seventeen counties, naming them in order as the 

 ratio of timber increases, have more than ten and not over forty acres 

 woodland to the square mile : Livingston twelve, Grundy and Piatt 

 fourteen, Henry fifteen, Champaign and Kankakee sixteen, Lee seven- 

 teen. Cook and Iroquois twenty, De Kalb twenty-six. Christian, Logan, 

 and Will twenty-eight, Douglas twenty-nine, Macon and Whiteside 

 thirty-one, McLean thirty-five. 



The following have more than forty and not exceeding eighty acres 

 of woodland to the section : La Salle forty-two, Stark forty-three, Ken- 

 dall and Lake forty-four, Bureau and Woodford forty-eight, Du Page 

 and Warren fifty-one, Vermillion fifty-three, Hancock fifty-six. Mason 

 fifty-seven, Knox and Ogle fifty-eight, Sangamon fifty-nine, Pulaski sixty- 

 one, Kane sixty-four, Carroll sixty-seven, Montgomery sixty-eight, Win- 

 nebago sixty-nine, Rock Island seventy-one, Tazewell seventy-two, De 

 Witt and Marshall seventy-three, Moultrie seventy-fiv.e, Stephenson 

 seventy-six, Alexander seventy-eight, and Peoria seventy-nine ; embrac- 

 ing twenty-seven counties. 



A fourth class having more than eighty, and not exceeding one 

 hundred and twenty acres of forest to the square mile, embraces the 

 counties of Mercer eighty-four, McHenry eighty-five. Coles eighty-six, 

 Cass eighty-eight, Henderson ninety, McDonough ninety-one, Macou- 

 pin ninety-four, Shelby ninety-six, Clinton and Washington one hundred, 

 Jo Daviess and Putnam one hundred and tw^o, Boone one hundred and 

 four, Edgar one hundred and six, Marion and Morgan one hundred and 

 seven, Menard one hundred and eleven. Bond one hundred and thir- 

 teen, Cumberland and St. Clair one hundred and fifteen, Effingham one 

 hundred and sixteen. Brown one hundred and nineteen, and Madison 

 one hundred and twenty: twenty-three counties in all. 



The counties having more than one hundred and twenty and not 

 exceeding one hundred and sixty acres of woodland to the square mile 

 are Fayette one hundred and thirty, Jasper one hundred and thirty-two, 

 Adams one hundred and thirty-six, Massac one hundred and thirty-eight, 

 Richland one hundred and forty, Fulton and Jersey one hundred and 

 forty-one, Schuyler one hundred and forty seven, Jackson one hundred 

 and fifty-one, Perry one hundred and fifty-four and White one hundred 

 and fifty-six ; eleven counties. 



The counties ranging between one hundred sixty and t,wo hun- 

 dred acres of forest to the section are : Pike one hundred sixty-two, 

 Jefterson one hundred sixty-five, Green one hundred seventy-one. 

 Clay and Wabash one hundred seventy-two, Scott one hundred 

 seventy-eight, Crawford one hundred eighty, Saline one hundred 

 eighty-six, and Lawrence one hundred ninety-nine; nine counties in all. 

 Six counties have from two hundred to two hundred forty acres of 



