Hni ! '• ^Iliiliiii i-l i ••' III 1111 Bilil • ■ Us Ill •;■ inHiill tiUliPlili! IflH'lilluldHi'r m SlBBHlTSnSR ^, 0I - 0G| CAL SURVEY 3 3051 00004 306 State of Illinois Henry Horner, Governor Department of Registration and Education John J. Hallihan, Director Division of the STAT E GEOLOGICAL S U R V I M. M. Leighton, Chief Urbana, Illinois 51 C I R C U L A R May 1940 AGRICULTURAL LII.ESTONE DISTRIBUTION IN ILLINOIS IN 1939^ Preliminary Report By W. H. Voskuil and G-. N. Oliver Returns from producers of agricultural limestone indicate that the farmers of Illinois applied approximately 1,500,000 tons in 1939. Detailed statistics were received from Illinois producers and from producers in Indiana, Kentucky, Missouri, Iowa, and Wisconsin, who ship agricultural limestone Into Illinois. Information was also received from farm advisers on estimated production of small quarries, production figures from which are otherwise unavailable. A preliminary report on the total tonnage of agricultural limestone used in each county in Illinois during 1939 and final figures for 1938 are g-iven in Table 1. In cooperation with the Mid-West Agricultural Limestone Institute Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2012 with funding from University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign http://archive.org/details/agriculturallime61vosk - 2 - Table 2 contains figures for agricultural limestone pro- duced in other states and marketed in Illinois, 1934-1939. Table 3 contains figures for agricultural limestone produced in Illinois and marketed in other states, 1934-1939. Revised figures based upon complete data will be published in the annual statistical report of the State Geological Survey. Consumption of agricultural limestone, and farm tenancy. Consumption of agricultural limestone is af fee tod by the form of land tenure. On land operated by tenants, the use of lime- stone is frequently discouraged because suitable arrangements do not exist between landlord and tenant with respect to compensation for unused benefit of limestone. Certain classes of landlords also do not properly appreciate the value of the land. In view of the high proportion of farm tenancy in Illinois, especially in the leading agricultural counties, producers of agricultural limestone press for the solution of the problem of increasing the use of limestone on tenanted farms. The acreage of farms operated by tenants and the proportion of farm tenancy, by counties, was shown in Table 1 of Circular No. 47, "Agricultural Limestone Distribution in 1938<" Table 1. - Consumption of Agricultural Limestone in Illinois, by Counties, 1938 and 1939 Average limestone consumption in Arable land pQunds por acre Tons used (iQUot^L* of arable land (1934 census County 1938 1939 figures) 1938 1939 Adams 16,483 23,054 256,222 123 218 Alexander (a) 1,600 48,999 (a) 66 Eond 11,353 9,569 132,099 172 144 Boone (a) 3,106 115,737 (a) 140 Brown 398 4,677 78,104 10 120 Table 1. - (Continue ^) Average li me stone Arable land consumption in (acres ) pounds pe r acre County Tons used (1934 census figures ) of arable 1938 land 1933 1939 1939 Bureau 13,120 20,000 359,529 73 111 Calhoun (a) 5,750 68,901 (a) 164 Carroll 2,089 15,000 153,278 27 196 Cass (a) 5,538 144,961 (a) 76 Champaign 20,357 23,103 ol0,585 78 90 Christian 15,542 14,669 333,156 92 36 Clark 19,650 46,915 151,345 240 600 Clay 1,706 5,500 151,435 22 72 Clinton 13,982 16,535 192,686 144 177 Col os 1,328 15,000 214,023 12 140 Cook 7,622 9,326 178,385 35 110 Crawford 2,510 8,240 124,307 40 132 Cumberland 6,576 10,526 119,122 110 176 DeKalb 8,000 10,895 307,266 52 71 DeWitt 10,757 10,120 132,562 118 110 Douglas 7,564 7,950 207,392 72 76 DuPage 6,711 5,541 106,526 126 104 Edgar 3,758 11,729 273,073 28 86 Edwards 3,204 6,050 35,356 192 140 Effingham 24,421 13,052 163,598 298 160 Fayette 10,001 14 , 000 223,559 88 123 Ford 21,264 21,490 247,539 172 173 Franklin 6,816 7,367 113,057 120 131 Fulton 5,049 11,890 290,102 34 82 Gallatin 2,564 4,773 104,998 48 91 Greene 16,045 16,125 178,198 180 181 Grundy 6,262 7,329 200,769 62 73 Hamilton 4,215 6,500 134,746 62 97 Hancock 4,550 8,161 274,919 33 59 Hardin 2,251 4,800 29,189 146 323 Henderson (a) 13,035 130,350 (a) 200 Henry 30,000 31,484 334,421 178 138 Iroquois 27,335 26,433 554,440 100 95 Jackson 7,901 13,300 172,337 90 154 Jasper 8,921 5,381 176,936 100 66 - 4 - Table 1. - (Continued) Average limestone Tons used Arable land (acres ) (1934 census figures ) consum] pounds of ara"! 1938 j tion in per acre Die land County 1938 1939 1939 Jefferson 14,822 13,500 177,301 166 153 Jersey 7,100 9 , 953 115,901 122 171 Jo Daviess 6,600 10,000 145,556 90 13 8 Johnson 1,164 7,010 72,686 32 193 Kane 7,293 14,224 223,860 65 127 Kankakee 20,683 25,153 309,935 133 162 Kendall 9,098 13,500 155,459 116 180 Knox 11,031 20,700 254,902 86 162 Lake 2,737 8,071 115,301 46 140 LaSalle 28,338 44,719 519,354 110 172 Lawrence 1,521 3 , 700 117,274 26 63 Lee 37,000 20,000 320,207 230 125 Livingston 49,022 66,014 540,819 180 244 Logan 15,339 12,300 300,583 100 83 Ocnough 3,748 8,012 227,081 34 70 Henry 2,593 16,500 213,840 24 150 He Lean 58,120 60,716 . 531,994 198 223 Macon 8,206 11,480 278,949 58 82 Ha coup in 5,140 18,250 292,187 35 124 ! i s on 10,702 30,320 267,693 80 226 Marion 15,463 8,u05 185,766 166 91 Marshall 11,531 15,061 162,866 140 184 Mason 9,603 8,431 228,957 84 74 Massac (a) 2,050 63,831 (a) 64 Menard 2 , 737 5,523 134,333 40 83 Mercer 4,985 12 , 096 192,182 52 126 Monroe 21,017 9,375 149,508 230 123 Montgomery 13,601 10,290 269,517 100 74 Morgan 5,102 3,394 222,219 46 32 Moultrie 5,052 4,148 162,653 &2 51 Ogle 35,000 20,000 319,048 220 135 Peoria 11,778 31,460 218, 763 106 288 Perry 4,394 11,475 138,507 62 164 Piatt 8,917 10,662 220,133 90 97 Pike (a) 20,000 237,252 (a) 169 - 5 Table 1. - (Continued) County Tons used 1938 1939 Arable land (acres) . (1934 census figures ) Average limestone consumption in pounds per acre of arable land 1938 193: Fope 1 ,218 Pulaski (a) Putnam 9 ,336 Randolph 17 ,577 Richland 6 ,500 Rock Island 8 ,286 St. Clair 27 ,374 Saline 5 ,762 Sangamon 14 ,598 Schuyler [a) Scott C ,561 Shelby 14 ,971 Stark 9 ,711 Stephenson 35 ,000 Tazewell 15. ,215 Union 8 ,290 Vermilion 10 ,687 Wabash 3 ,294 Warren 13 ,272 Washington 24. ,553 Wayne 3 ,489 White 8 ,154 Whiteside 5 ,348 Will 11 ,454 Williamson 3. ,285 Winnebago 25 ,000 Woodford 18 ,254 Trucked, county unknown 33 ,362 Total 1,160 339 4 ,300 1 ,600 9 ,343 11 ,952 6. ,553 11 ,150 31 ,501 ' 9 ,514 8 ,310 6. ,000 8 ,560 12 ,375 5 ,475 20. ,000 12. ,930 7 ,345 13 ,000 310 20 ,000 24. ,000 3. ,063 6 ,746 16 ,000 9 ,974 2. ,854 25 ,000 13. ,141 39. ,292 1,497. ,458 66,401 36 143 66,790 (a) 48 59,339 320 334 204,931 170 117 133,173 96 99 133,212 124 168 267,433 200 232 120,108 96 158 377,487 77 44 130,779 (a) 91 90,704 133 138 297,999 100 36 122,206 160 91 210,552 332 190 234,653 106 91 103,386 152 136 399,351 84 90 92,213 70 7 215,366 154 185 216,960 226 221 203,166 32 30 190,239 36 71 232,383 38 114 370,187 60 54 105,094 62 54 182,962 262 262 233,462 156 155 (a) Data not available - e - Table 2. - Agricultural Limestone Produced in Other States and Sold in Illinois, 1954-1933., in tons Amount sold in tota" L Illinois Year Illinois consumption 1934 56,095 16.2 1935 54,803 10.5 193G 77,264 7.5 1937 87,479 7.9 1938 118,740 10.2 1939 71,775 5.1 Table 3. - Agricultural Limestone Produced in Illinois and Marketed In Other S bates, 1934-1939 (Net tons) Year Indiana Kentucky Missouri Michigan Tennessee Total 1934 9,093 2,232 1,546 238 13,259 1935 10,102 32 130 4,135 1,095 10,562 1936 28,976 4,129 587 4,950 6,020 44,398 1937 53,375 12 845 7,522 2,705 64,746 1938 36,356 4 675 1,288 4,100 42,453 1939 3,527 4,735 441 500 18,950 26,169 MAP OF ILLINOIS Seal* of MllM lO O lO ao 30 40 SO COUNTY LOCATION MAP "WASCHER'S" S07 S. 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