ILLINOIS. 



383 



For the deaf and blind, all that the State 

 undertakes to do is to educate such as are of 

 school age. With respect to the deaf, the 

 Superintendent of the Institution for the Edu- 

 cation of the Deaf and Dumb reports that there 

 are as many deaf-mutes of school age within 

 the State, who have never been at any school 

 designed especially for their benefit, as there 

 are pupils present in the institution at Jackson- 

 ville. Of the 5,000 insane reported, not more 

 than about 2,000 are provided for in State in- 

 stitutions. The number of insane men and 

 women in county almshouses is very great, and 

 constantly increasing, and in several of the 

 larger counties the question what to do with 

 them is a very important and pressing one. 



Below are the reports of the wardens of the 

 Illinois Penitentiaries for the month of Decem- 

 ber, 1882 : 



JOLIET PENITENTIARY. 



Convicts on hand December 1st 1,435 



Eeceived from courts 48 



Keturned on habeas corpus writ 1 



Total on hand December 1st 1,484 



Discharged during month 87 



Pardoned during month 2 



Died during month 1 



Sent to Insane Asylum 2 



Out by order of Supreme Court 1 



Total out 43 



On hand December 31st 1,441 



Males 1,418 



Females 23 



CHESTER PENITENTIARY. 



Convicts on hand December 1st 560 



Received during month 25 



Total 585 



Discharged during month 5 



On hand December 31st 580 



Males 572 



Females 8 



The following facts, relating to the charitable 

 institutions of the State, are taken from the re- 

 port of the State Board of Public Charities for 

 the first quarter of the year : 



The acreage, yield, and value of the rye-crop 

 of Illinois, during the past ten years, are as fol- 

 low: 



The 1882 crop of winter wheat was the 

 largest, with one exception (1880), ever har- 

 vested in the State, and amounted to 50,951,- 

 529 bushels. The spring wheat-crop made the 

 aggregate yield a little over fifty-two million 

 bushels. The average yield was not far from 

 eighteen and a half bushels per acre, which is 

 but little below that of 1879, when the largest 

 average yield per acre was obtained. 



The area of the crop 2,752,108 acres has 

 been exceeded but twice (1880 and 1881). The 

 quality of wheat was much better than an 

 average, and has seldom if ever graded more 

 uniformly high throughout the State. The 

 crop was saved in good condition, and either 

 thrashed or stacked immediately after harvest. 

 The 1882 crop returned the producer more 

 money than any crop harvested during the past 

 fourteen years. 



The following table shows the number and 

 value of live-stock returned by the assessors in 

 1881: 



The following table gives the acreage, yield, 

 and value of the corn-crops of the State for 

 the past twenty-two years : 



