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1879 and the census arc · ST. JOSEPH COUNTY AND PENN TOWNSHIP
The banked fragment tells first crops whole — wheat the first cash-and-bread crop on the cleared and prairie ground — and carries exactly one wheat count at pointer size: the county's 811,037 bushels threshed in 1879 (the 1880 census's crop year, Chapman's agricultural chapter's ground). This article's work was the rise/fall counts around it, and its result is printed honestly: the wheat series that would count the fall — county wheat acreage and production at the successive censuses, in Chapman's chapter and the census agriculture volumes — could not be extracted at verification strength from this seat, for the same reason as art-59-1: the volumes are scanned, the datasets gated to member/bulk download, and a bushel figure remembered or interpolated would fail this build's rule. No second wheat count is asserted.
The arc's shape — rise to the 1879 threshing count, then replacement — stands; its interior counts stand as a named gap: settler, Chapman's agricultural chapter read against the census agriculture volumes' county wheat tables, 1880–1920, and the NASS historical series thereafter.
Sources: Banked Farms & Agriculture (1879 county threshing count, 811,037 bu.; corn-and-livestock succession); Chapman, History of St. Joseph County (1880), agricultural chapter — named as settler for the interior counts; Census of Agriculture volumes — access attempted Nov. 2026.