Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 September 1907 — A FARMERS’ STATE. [ARTICLE]

A FARMERS’ STATE.

WbiM Indiana during the last score of years has become one~of the great manufacturing states of the Union, at the same time it has not lost ground as an agricultural state, but has made surprising gains. There has been a steady emigration to farm lands of the west and northwest but at the same time the increase in the cultivation and production of Indiana lands has been enough to sustain a large addition to our population. Doubtless, thousands of men who have resisted the temptation to move west have done as well or better right here in Indiana by staying. The value of the state’s agricultural output has trebled in about twenty-six years. The yield which was worth in 1900, $204,450,000, had risen to $348,000,000.; in 1906. It seems reasonable to anticipate that in four years more thY state’s production will be worth $400,000,000. There is more land to be brought into cultivation, methods are being improved and inefficient farmers are giving way to the more efficient. The central position of Indiana insures an advantage in prices and a saving in freights," and this is still a farmers’ state, with room in it for more farmers and gardeners.