Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 37, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 April 1905 — POOR FARMS ARE NOT MONEY MAKERS [ARTICLE]

POOR FARMS ARE NOT MONEY MAKERS

Statistics iust complied by the State Statistician gives interesting information concerning the poor farms of the’State of Indiana. The oost of maintenance of these institutions for last year was $387,650.11, while the receipts from the sale of crops grown at .be different farms amounted to only SB2 513.78. There are 3,296 inm tes in these institutions, making the oost per capita $93 18. Of the tota 1 number of persons dependent on the State for support 809 are made so from old age, 856 from physical defects, 844 from mental disorders, 456 from intemperance and 331 from other causes, A report reoeived from Wajne county states that two of the inmates of the poor farm there are made so by "pure laziness.” The poor farms of Benton, Jay Howard, Delaware and Vigo counties are the only ones in the State that are self-supporting. The institution of Delaware county is able to be a little more than selfsupporting, on account of the oil wells'on ihe farm.