Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 133, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 June 1912 — INDIANA FARMS RAPIDLY INCREASING IN VALUE. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA FARMS RAPIDLY INCREASING IN VALUE.

Amazing Gains Shown By Figures Based on the Tenth Decennial Census Taken in 1919. • The census bureau, in a bulletin Issued last Thursday, shows an amazing increase In farm values in Indiana during the ten years from 1900 to 1910. The figures are based on the tenth decennial census, taken in 1910. In 1900 the average farm in Indiana, land only, was worth $3,099. In 1910 the average Indiana farm, land only, was worth $6,104. The average number of acres in Indiana farms in 1910 was 98.8, as against 97.4 In 1900. The average value of all farm property in 1910 .was $8,396, as against $4,410 in 1900. The average value of implements and machinery per farm increased from $123 to $l9O and the average value of live stock from $494 to SBO7. The greatest increase in the value of Indiana farm holdings during the decade, it will be observed, was in the value of the land ftself, which nearly doubled.