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Banked record, Farms & Crops lk-frm-township-ground; Census of Agriculture printed volumes and NASS archive, as searched November 2026
The banked township article states the gap on its face — first crops unnamed in every carrier, the township's wheat era a county frame only — and the audit assigns the printed Census of Agriculture county tables, 1850 to 1940, as the settler; this section locates the settler and reports the extraction unmade. The volumes exist and are reachable in principle: the Census Bureau's library holds the printed agriculture volumes, the 1860 volume among them with Indiana county tables; the NASS archive keeps the later county series; and NHGIS and ICPSR carry county data derived from the published volumes. But no St. Joseph County row for 1850, 1860, 1870 or 1880 was extracted, and no township wheat figure stands in any carrier opened — so the township's first crops remain unnamed and its wheat arc remains the 1875 Atlas's county sentence, "wheat consequently has always been an abundant crop," which the banked file already carries. To print township numbers derived from county rows would manufacture the very fact the leg lacks. The settler is named and stands current in its full form: the printed Census of Agriculture county tables 1850 to 1940, read for this county entire, with settler reminiscence, diary, or township agricultural report behind them for the first-crops limb. The row closes a named gap, at L size as the audit classes it, and it is the largest single gap this lane leaves behind.