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The loss in this year on all three crops thus amounts to $6,442,984 

 by this computation for seventeen counties only. Twenty-two coun- 

 ties were, however, injuriously infested this year, fifteen of them over 

 practically their whole area and the other seven over a part of it 

 only. Furthermore, 1914 was but one of six years during which the 

 chinch-bug was destructively abundant in this part of Illinois, and we 

 shall certainly be far within the truth if we double the figures for 

 this limited area infested in one year as our estimate for the entire 

 damage wrought in Illinois from the beginning of the outbreak. This 

 gives us practically $13,000,000 as the immediate sacrifice of staple 

 crops to the chinch-bug during this period in Illinois. 



Secondary Economic Consequences 

 Secondary losses of all kinds consequent upon this primary destruc- 

 tion it is probably impossible to compute or to estimate with even ap- 

 proximate exactness; but that they were very heavy will be shown 

 by a general study of the economic consequences, direct and indirect, 

 immediate and remote, of this chinch-bug outbreak which is being made 

 for me by a member of the economics department of the University of 

 Illinois. I may here refer, however, in passing, to a single example of 

 these secondary consequences, which I have myself drawn out of the 

 data derived from assessors' reports on the live stock of the state, as 

 published by the State Department of Agriculture in its statistical 

 reports. 



Beef and Dairy Cattle in Four Worst Infested Counties (2724 square 

 miles), and in Five Uninfested Counties Adjacent (2629 square miles). 



Counties 



Sq. 



miles 



Kinds 



of 

 stock 



YearvS 



Percentages 





1911 



1912 



1913 | 1914 | 1915 



Loss | Gain 



Bond 



380 



Beef 

 Dairy 



9,283 

 5,632 



6,498 

 4,506 



6,173 

 4,731 



4,938 

 5,204 



4,197 



4,788 



54.7 

 15. 





Macoupin . 



864 



Beef 

 Dairy 



10,265 

 3,304 



9,136 

 3,205 



8,314 

 3,237 



7,981 



3,399 



12,154" 



5,362 



6,066 

 3,501 



40.9 



5.9 



Madison . . . 



740 



Beef 

 Dairy 



16,680 

 6,332 



15,005 

 6,142 



13,503 

 5,528 



10,574 

 4,826 



36.6 

 23.8 





Montgomery 



740 

 2,724 



Beef 

 Dairy 



13,834 

 5,324 



12,451 



5,324 



11,206 

 5,324 



6,724 

 5,164 



5,715 

 4,596 



58.7 



13:6 





Total 





70,654 



62,267 



58,016 



50,926 



44,263 



37.0 





Clark 



513 



Beef 

 Dairy 



6,425 

 2,664 



4,305 

 2,531 

 8,066 

 3,014 



3,440 



2,278 



2,993 



2,278 



2,993 

 2,210 



51.8 

 13.3 





Coles 



520 



Beef 

 Dairy 



9,837 

 3,464 



7,421 

 2,924 



6,679 

 3,070 



5,544 

 3,070 



43.6 

 11.4 





Cumberland 



350 



Beef 

 Dairy 



9,370 

 1,993 



7,027 

 1,594 



6,324 

 1,674 



6,134 



1,758 



6,441 

 1,899 



31.3 



4.7 





Effingham . 



486 



Beef 

 Dairy 



11,350 

 6,472 



10,782 

 6,472 



10,027 

 6,472 



8,523 

 6,343 



8,097 

 6,153 



28.6 

 4.9 





Shelby 



760 



Beef 

 Dairy 



27,328 

 7,378 



25,962 

 7,378 



26,741 

 7,378 



25,671 



7,378 



70,827 



24,901 

 7,230 



8.8 

 2. 





Total 



2,629 





86*281 



74,131 



74,679 



68,538 



20.6 





