. Bulletin. Natural history; Natural history. "516 liiiNois Natlral History Survey Bulletin I'ol. 22, Art. 7 RACCOON Distribution.—The distribution of the coon* popuhition, fig. 7, in Illinois is much like that of the possum* population, fig. 10. Ccons, fig. 8. are least common in the prairie region centering around Livingston County and in an area in the south central part of the state. They are most common in the wooded counties bordering the Mis- Table 4.—Weighted per cent of Illinois fur- takers who reported catching coons, and weighted average catch of coons per effective fur-taker;
. Bulletin. Natural history; Natural history. "516 liiiNois Natlral History Survey Bulletin I'ol. 22, Art. 7 RACCOON Distribution.—The distribution of the coon* popuhition, fig. 7, in Illinois is much like that of the possum* population, fig. 10. Ccons, fig. 8. are least common in the prairie region centering around Livingston County and in an area in the south central part of the state. They are most common in the wooded counties bordering the Mis- Table 4.—Weighted per cent of Illinois fur- takers who reported catching coons, and weighted average catch of coons per effective fur-taker; data derived from fur-takers' monthly reports, and weighting done on the basis of the relative size of counties repre- sented. Weighted Weighted Per Cent Average Season OF Fur-Takers Catch of Coons Per Catching Effective Coons Fur-Taker 1929-30 31 28 1934-35 24 1935-36 29 1936-37 . 27 1937-38 . 32 1938-39 . 33 1939-40 35 1940-41 .. 35 37 sissippi, Illinois, Ohio and Wabash rivers, particularly in those bordering the Missis- sippi and the Ohio in the southern end of the state. According to figures from the oral sur- vey, the yield in Calhoun County was 23 times as great, and in Union County it was 14 times as great, as in Champaign County. Trappers, Catch and Income. — Monthly report data indicate for the pe- riod of this study a decline of the coon catch (possibly ending about 1933), fol- lowed bv a strong recoverv, table 4. For the 1938-39 and 1939-40' seasons, index figures for per cent of fur-takers catching coons, table 4. are respectively 2 and 3 points lower than the corresponding fig- ures calculated from information assem- •Both popular and literary usage sanctions use of the word coon for raccoon and possum for opossum. bled during the course of the oral survey. In both sets of data, the 1939-40 figures show a slight rise over those of the pre- vious season. The average-catch-per-ef¥ec- tive-fur-tak
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