Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 82, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 April 1910 — Hemp Growing In Indiana. [ARTICLE]

Hemp Growing In Indiana.

The raising and marketing of hemp is northern Indiana’s latest industry. D S. Myers, of St. Joseph county will

turn his farm of 325 acres over growing of hemp. Myers brought from Kentucky 181 negroes, men and women, on a special train.

He began his experiment last fall, when he grew a crop of 400,000 pounds, which will bring 3 to 7 cents a pound, government experts from Washington having pronounced the crop As good as any raised in the country. The negroes Have been brought here to break the hemp. »

Inasmuch as much of the crop was, raised on marsh land, owners of land on the Kankakee are watching the result with interest, and the chances are that they will follow Myers’ example next fall and turn northern Indiana into one of the greatest hemp raising districts of the United States. —^