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VOL. LXV
INDIANAPOLIS, DEC. 17, 1910.
NO. 51
INDIANA AGRICULTURE.
The (>iimi>  Department Gives Important   la. ts   Mm i ut This State.
Farm land in Indiana Increased In
value 94 per cent between 1900 and
1910. This fact is announced by the U.
S. census bureau. The statement
given out by the    bureau    shows that
alone was reported in 1910 as $1,325,-
475,000, as compared with $687,633,000
In 1900, a gain of $637,842,000, or 94
per cent. The total value of the farm
buildings alone was given In 1910 as
$264,750,000, as against $154,102,000
in 1900, and increase of $110,648,000, or
72  per cent.
In 1910 the value of farm land alone
constituted 83 per cent of the total val-
in 1900, a rise of $36, or 92 per cent.
The average value an acre of farm
land alone in 1910 was reported as $62,
while in 1900 it was $32, the amount of
gain being $30, or 94 per cent.
Of the whole number, 214,741, of
farms reported in 1900, there were
213,937 operated by white farmers and
804 by colored farmers, as compared
with a total of 221,897 in 1900, of which
ed 69 per cent of the whole number of
farms, as against 70 per cent in 1900;
those conducted hy the "all tenants"
class in 1910 constituted 30 per cent, as
against 29 per cent in 1900, and the
number operated by managers mad.- by
1 per cent in both 1910 and 1900. Of
the total number, 148,001, of farms.
operated in 1910 by the "all owners"
class,    there were 91,213, or 62 per cut,
Grand Champion car load of fat cattle,  International  Exposition  1910;  Angus yearlings; fed by E. P. Hall, Mechanicsburg.    Illinois; average    1156    pounds.
every branch of agriculture in the state
made great progress during the last
ten years.
The increase in the total expenditures
for farm labor was 85 per cent; the increase In the total value of buildings,
72 per cent; the increase ln the total
value of farm implements and machinery, 50 per cent; in expenditures for
fertilizers, 40 per cent. The total number of farms in the state decreased 3
per oent during the ten-year period,
and the total farm acreage decreased 2
per cent.
Number of Farms I*ss.
The statement shows In detail that
the number of farms reported in 1910
was 214,741, as compared with 221,897
in 1900, a decrease of 7,156, or 3 per
cent. The total value of farm land
and buildings was given in 1910 as $1,-
r.90,225,000, as against $841,735,000 in
1900 an Increase of $748,490,000, or 89
per cent.    The total value of farm land
ue of land and buildings, as compared
with  81  per cent in  1900.
The reported value of farm implements and machinery was $40,880,000
In 1910, as against $27,330,000 in 1900,
a gain of $13,550,000. or 50 per cent.
The total acreage reported in 1910 was
21,264,000 acres, as compared with 21,-
620.000 ln 1900, a decrease of 356,000
acres, or 2 per cent.
Improved Acreage Increases.
The improved acreage was returned
in 1910 as amounting to 16,903,000
acres, as against 16,680,000 in 1900, an
increase of 22 3,000 acres or 1 per cent.
In 1910 the improved acreage formed
79 per cent of the total acreage, as
against 77 per cent in 1900.
The average acres a farm reported in
1910 was ninety-nine, as compared with
ninety-seven in 1900, a gain of two
acres, or 2 per cent. Tlie average value an acre of farm land and buildings
in 1910 is stated as $75, as against $39
220,835 were conducted by white farmers and 1,062 by colored. The deprease
in the number of farms of white farmers during the decade amounted to 6,-
888, or 3 per cent, and in the colored
258, or 24 per cent.
The total number of farms operated
in 1910 by owners, part owners and
owners and tenants, comprising the "all
owners" class, was 148,001, as compared
with 156,227 in 1900, a decrease of 8,-
226 or 5 per cent. The total number
conducted in 1910 by cash tenants,
share tenants and cash and share tenants, comprising the "all tenants" class,
was 64,451, as against 63,448 in 1900, a
gain of 1003, or 2 per cent.
The total number of farms operated
by managers in 1910 was 2,289, as compared with 2,222 in 1900, a gain of 67,
or 3 per cent.
Farms in Two Classes.
The total number of farms operated
by the "all owners"' class in 1910 form-
owned free of incumbrance, and 56,788,
or 38 per cent, mortgaged. The census bureau has no information respecting the number of mortgaged farms
leased to tenants, nor figures for 1900
available for comparison with the 1910
data as to incumbrance.
The statement relative to farms distributed according to certain acreage
groups shows that those of nineteen
acres and under numbered 23,186 in
1910 and 21,976 in 1900, a gain of 1,210,
or 5 per cent; of twenty to forty-nine
acres, 40,061 in 1910 and 47,000 in 1900,
a decrease of 6,948, or 15 per cent; of
fifty to ninety-nine acres, 67,165 in 1910
and 71,055 in 1900, a decrease of 3,890,
or 5 per cent; of 100 to 174 acres, 57,-
188 in 1910 and 55,060 in 1900, an Increase of 2,128, or 4 per cent; of 175
to 499 acres, 26,052 in 1910 and 25,479
in 1900, an increase of 573, or 2 per
cent; of five hundred acres, 949 in 1910
and 1,094 in 1909, a decrease of 145, or
13 per cent, and of one thosuand acres