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always to be remembered, we had the local beginnings of mischief 

 merely, we find the connection between the grass injury and the 

 wheat area clearly indicated, the acreage ia wheat more than 

 doubling — if we may use our highest group of only eight town- 

 ships — between the first and last numbers of the series of Table YI. 



It may also be noticed that the numbers of the oais column 

 now tend to decrease, while those of grass and corn neither rise 

 nor fall. 



Table YII. 



Northern Illinois, 224 Towns. Injury io Grass, 1887, compared 

 with Crop Areas for the Same Year. 



Degree of Injury. 



No. 

 of Tps. 



Wheal. 



Barley. 



Eye. 



Oats. 



Corn. 



Gr.;ss. 





193 



338 



147 



384 



3,182 





4,726 



8,196 



Little 



19 



358 



225 



325 



2,961 





3,976 



6,527 





8 



379 



88 



232 



2,477 





3, 366 



7,438 





3 



198 



288 



393 



1,767 





3,129 



"5,460 



Great 



1 



548 





412 



3, 351 





5,719 



9,346 













Next, in Northern Illinois we find an appreciable, though slight, 

 increase in wheat, and a decided decrease in oats and corn acconi- 

 panyiug the increase in injury to grass from "none" to "moderate," — 

 beyond which grade we cannot go. 



Table VIII. 



The Whole State, 812 Towns. Injury to Grass, 1887, compared 

 with Crop Areas for the Same Year, 



Degree of Injury. 



No. 

 of Tps. 



Wheat. 



Barley. 



Rye. 



Oats. 



Corn. 



Grass 





539 



1,265 



54 



187 



2,744 





5,100 



6,548 



Little 



140 



2, 364 



32 



70 



2,009 





3,464 



4,207 



Moderate 



65 



2, 105 



11 



47 



1,864 





2,870 



3,609 



Considerable 



57 



2, 628 



16 



43 



2,127 





3,220 



8,700 





6 

 3 



3,209 





98 



2,446 





3,529 



3,621 



Very great 



4,369 





87 



2,986 





4,112 



3,404 





2 



2,688 





6 



2,085 





3,912 



3,225 



Finally, the figures for the State at large bring out beyond dis- 

 pute the relation of whea^t culture to the injury to grass, the area 

 in that grain running upward from 1,265 acres per township to 

 3,209 as the damage to grass passes from "none" to "very great." 

 There is little else of interest to be drawn from this table except 

 the fact that grass was least hurt where the largest amount of land 

 was under cultivation, as shown by the average of 15,900 acres 

 per town in the great farm sta])les where meadows and pastures 

 were uninjuied, as coini)ared with 12,900 acres where the damage 

 was considered "great." 



