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Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1873
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208 Of the native population our good commonwealth herself can now claim to be the mother of 1,181,106. Of other States the following have sent us more than 25,000 each : Indiana Kentucky Missouri New York Ohio Pennsylvania Tennessee Virginia and West Virginia .---- 86,422 63,297 26, 824 133,290 - -162, 623 98, 352 44, 012 33, 668 - , Of the foreign population the following countries sent us each more than the same number: British America Germany England, Ireland 1 ..... 32,388 203,750 53,886 120,162. Examining localities, we find that the Ohio emigrants have gathered in the greatest numbers in Champaign, Cook, Fulton, McLean, Shelby and Vermilion ; those from Kew York, in Cook, DeKalb, Kane, Knox, LaSalle, McHenry, Ogle, Whiteside, Will and Winnebago; those of Pennsylvania, in Carroll, Cook, Fulton, Henry, LaSalle, Lee, McLean, Ogle, Stephenson and Whiteside. Indiana, as might be expected, simply overflows into our adjacent counties without the same selection of abiding places that is made by more distant States. The Kentuckians have come specially to Adams, Coles, Cook, Edgar, Macoupin, McLean, Morgan and Sangamon. The German born citizens are found, in numbers exceeding 5,000, in Adams, Cook, Madison, St. Clair and Will. The acres of land reported as in farms, as I have stated, are 25,882,861 acres, valued at $920,506,346, or about $37 per acre. These farming lands are divided into 202,803 farms, or an average of 128 acres to a farm, against 146 acres in 1860 and 158 in 1850. The average of all the farms in the United States is 153 acres, showing us already below the average and settling down to small farms. Utah has the smallest farms—30 acres to a farm—and the District of Columbia comes next, with 56 acres to a farm. California shows 482 acres to the average farm, and Georgia 338, being the highest on the list. Of the Illinois farms, 43 contain less than 3 acres; 3,552 less than 10; 10,229 less than 20; 53,240 less than 50; 68,130 less than 100; 65,940 less than 500; 1,367 less than 1,000, and 302 more than 1,000 acres. Taking the small farms, under 10 acres in size, we find the Egyptian and fruit growing county of Union to stand first with 240 farms, whose owners seem to reckon "ten acres enough," Vermilion comes next with 183 of these, and Cook and Effingham follow with 133 and 123 ten acre farms. The southern and wooded counties, as might be expected, furnish
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