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nine counties within the area seriously infested in those years, and 

 of nine other counties adjacent, but not infested at that time, as 

 shown in the tables following. 



Crop Areas, 1909, Infested Counties 



Counties 



Wheat 



Oats | Corn 



Forage 



Madison 



Bond 



63,820 

 14,406 

 16,457 

 819 

 37,530 

 59,789 

 54,384 

 44,777 

 28,288 



5,881 



9,025 



7,948 



4,306 



24,059 



2,922 



1,547 



21,793 



10,434 



67,767 

 27,798 

 31,682 

 26,298 

 46,156 

 39,667 

 24,530 

 35,619 

 16,784 



73,228 

 48,742 

 77,567 



Marion 



Clinton 



56,376 

 47,297 

 47,898 

 31,248 

 27,524 

 15,726 



St. Clair 



Eandolph 



Washington 



Perry 



Totals 



320,270 



87,915 



425,666 











Total of above crops 1,150,152 acres 



Total of cultivated land 2,296,263 acres 



Total area 3,284,480 acres 



Ratio of acreage of each crop to total acreage of all above crops: — wheat, 27.8 



percent; oats, 7.6 percent; corn, 27.5 percent; forage, 37 percent. 

 Ratio of area in above crops to total area of cultivated land, 50 percent. 

 Ratio of cultivated land to total area, 70 percent. 

 Percentage of total area in each crop: — wheat, 9.7; oats, 20; corn, 9.6; forage, 13; 



total, 34.3. 



Crop Areas, 1909, Uninfested Counties 



Counties 



Wheat 



Oats 



Corn 



Forage 



Effingham 



4,422 

 286 

 993 



3,089 

 684 



2,983 

 360 



1,148 



2,660 



9,935 

 982 

 7,694 

 8,233 

 1,031 

 8,379 

 9,247 

 12,687 

 6,986 



48,732 

 19,582 

 19,755 

 35,011 

 39,709 

 24,983 

 47,342 

 30,615 

 35,560 



56,394 

 14,065 

 48,490 

 34,620 

 62,549 

 51,231 

 33,299 

 32,376 

 20,307 



Jasper 



Richland 



Clay 



Wayne 



Jefferson 



Hamilton 



Franklin 



Williamson 



Totals 



16,625 



65,174 



301,289 



353,331 



Total of above crops 736,419 acres 



Total of cultivated land 2,033,114 acres 



Total area .2,759,680 acres 



Ratio of acreage of each crop to total acreage of all above crops: — wheat, 2.3 per- 

 cent; oats, 8.9 percent; corn, 40.9 percent; forage, 47.9 percent. 

 Ratio of area in above crops to total area of cultivated land, 36.2 percent. 

 Ratio of cultivated land to total area, 73.7 percent. 



Percentage of total area in each crop: wheat, 0.6 percent; oats, 2.3 percent; corn, 

 11.0 percent; forage, 12.8 percent; total, 26.7 percent. 



From these tables it will be seen that the nine infested counties have 

 an area of about three and a quarter millions of acres, of which 50 per- 

 cent was in the cereal crops and the forage grasses (the chinch-bug 

 crops, in other words) , and that nearly 28 percent of the area of these 

 crops was in wheat, about the same in corn, 7.6 percent in oats, and 37 



