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always to be remembered, we had the local beginnings of mischie 
merely, we find the connection between the grass injury and th 
wheat area clearly indicated, the acreage in wheat more tha: 
doubling—if we may use onr highest group of only eight town 
ships—between the first and last numbers of the series of Table VI 
It may also be noticed that the numbers of the oats colum 
now tend to decrease, while those of grass and corn neither ris 
nor fall. 
Table VII. 
Northern Illinois, 224 Towns. Injury to Grass, 188/, compare 
with Crop Areas for the Same Year. 
Degree of Injury. 
No. 
of Tps. 
Wheat. 
Barley. 
Bye. 
Oats. 
Corn. 
Grass 
None. 
Tiittlp . 
193 
19 
338 
358 
147 
225 
384 
325 
3,182 
2,961 
4,726 
3,976 
3,366 
3,129 
5,719 
3,1« 
6,52' 
Mrwtprate. 
8 
379 
88 
232 
2,477 
7.43$ 
5,461 
9.34$ 
P.rvnsirlprahlo. 
3 
198 
288 
393 
1,767 
1 
548 
412 
3,351 
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— 
— 
— 
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Next, in Northern Illinois we find an appreciable, though sligh 
increase in wheat, and a decided decrease in oats and corn accoD 
panying 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, compar 
with Crop Areas for the Same Year. 
Degree of Injury. 
No. 
of Tps. 
Wheat. 
Barley. 
Bye. 
Oats. 
Corn. 
Gras 
. 
539 
1,265 
54 
187 
2,744 
2,009 
1,864 
2,127 
5,100 
3,464 
2,870 
3,220 
3,529 
4,112 
3,912 
6,54 
a on 
T little . 
140 
2,364 
32 
70 
3,60 
3,70 
3,62 
3,40 
nHpr at.fL . 
65 
2,105 
11 
47 
formal Hprflhl P . 
57 
2,628 
16 
43 
‘6 
3,209 
4,369 
2,688 
98 
2,446 
3 
87 
2,986 
V y m cat. 
2 
6 
2,085 
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Finally, the figures for the State at large bring out beyond d: 
pute the relation of wheat culture to the^ injury to grass, the ar 
in that grain running upward from 1,265 acres „per township 
3,209 as the damage to grass passes from “none” to ‘Very grea 
There is little else of interest to be drawn from this table exce 
the fact that grass was least hurt where the largest amount of lai 
was under cultivation, as shown by the average of 15,JtO aci 
per town in the great farm staples where meadows and pastui 
were uninjured, as compared with 12,900 acres where the dama 
was considered “great.” 
