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Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1873
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205 of losses, I see nothing to discourage the cattle-growers. The trouble has been with feeders, who have paid too much for stock cattle, and not with the cattle raiser. It is the best article that always finds a ready and liberal buyer, and is most profitable to the seller. This can only be produced by diligence, care and perseverance, directed by judgment, without which we are sure to make a failure. THE AGRICULTURE OF ILLINOIS m BY W. C. FLAGG. THE CENSUS OF 1870. Illinois, according to the census of 1870, contains a population of 2,539,891 inhabitants, and, as in 1860, ranks fourth in this respect. Its relative gain, however, as compared with the States standing nearest above and below it, shows that it is still rising in the scale, and will take at least a third place in the census of 1880 : States. New York Pennsylvania. Ohio Illinois Missouri Indiana Massachusetts Population 1870. 4,382,759 3, 521, 951 2,665,260 2, 539.891 1, "21,295 1,680,637 1, 457, 351 Per cent. gain. 12.94 21.19 13.92 48.36 45.62 24.45 18.38 - '- It surpasses in area all these States except Missouri, which has about 10,000 more square miles, the area of Illinois being, according to the census report, 55,410 square miles, whilst that of Missouri is 65,350. The area, however, is stated by our State Auditor to be 55,872 square miles. Its density of population, using the census figures, is 45.84 to the square mile, or 45.47, using the State area for a divisor. It is twelfth in area of the organized States, and eleventh in density of population. . Texas has iive times its area, and California three times as much. Massachusetts has four times the population to the square mile, and Rhode Island three and a half times. Although a large State, equal nearly to half the British Isles, or one-quarter of France, to fortytwo Rhode Islands, or twenty-six Delawares, it stands by no means first in extent of surface. Whilst ^containing a population of two and a half millions, it is far from the maximum density of population. Probably, however, no State in the Union has less waste land, nor can, when its farming lands and coal mines are fully developed, support a larger population to the square mile.
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