Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 June 1910 — GROW HEMP IN INDIANA. [ARTICLE]

GROW HEMP IN INDIANA.

Department of Agriculture Prel diets Industry Will Expand in the State. WasoingtonH June 3 —The ceyartment of agriculture predict: that the day is not far distant when hemp will be cultivated extensively in Indiana. The bureau f plant industry points out that during the last two years, hemp has been grown succes sfuliy at K :-uts and North Liberty. in the state. Excellent crops bay e been obtained-in-the stats. by urea,u say-, during the last two seasons on peaty soil over : arL Most of the hemp no\v cultivated in this country, amounting to from fifteen to twenty thousand acres annually, is grown in the blue grass region of Kentucky, of which Lexington is the center. About six hundred acres are grown each year near Lincoln. Neb., and. an area oj about the same size in the lower Sacramento valley, in California. For the benefit of Indiana farmer: who- may desire to experiment in hemp growing, the bureau of soils suggests that the crop may be introduced in any. crop r -tat: >n but it is best to have it foil >w peas, beans or cl ver. It may follow corn or grain, providing there crops are well fertilized. All the. hemp fiber produced in this country 1- use 1 in American ill-, and increasing' quantities are being imported. Mills are r near Boston. New York. Philadelphia. Cincinnati and San Francisco. The price r r’Ugh fiber tied up in hand.ftade bails ha- been about 5 cents a pound. *