The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1890-02-08

wool-manufacturing States. Rhode Island
leading. but the whole State wouldn't
make n decent sheep range in the woolly
West. The average price IN Indiana Is
given at $3.50; in Illinois, s2.56: in Iowa.
sass; IN Ohio. S2:13. in the country, S221-
The lOwest-priced sheep are in the Southern
States, the North Carolina sheep being
worth only S1.34.
The average value of swine is highest in
the Northeastern States and Territories and
Colorado, Massachusetts, leading with
Sl24l. The average value in Indiana IS
S5.57; in Illinois, 1851; in Iowa, S6.02: in
Ohio. S5.19; in the United States, S4.g7:
Florida has the cheapest swine, $40, and
In most of the Southern States the value
does not exceed $3.50, showing that tho
advice of a Michigan Congressman that
they raise more hogs and less he'll" might
be modIhed so as to raise better hogs.
The fourteenth map is devoted 10 the
rural population of the United States as a
percentage of the total population. The
basis Is found IN the record OF numbers IN
all gainful occupations in the United States
IN 1850 by s~egregating all those occupations
which, IN a broad sense, may be deemed
related to agriculture. The population was
about A per cent. of all enumerated. which
was 3 per cent less than in $50. 1t is be-
lieved that the percentage will appear TO
be slightly less than IN 1850, when the
census of 1890 is taken. In six states the
rural population constitutes from y to 81
per cent. of the whole; These states, De-
'hhth WIN thOt 20
est per cent, and proceeding in
order are: Arkansas. Mississippi, Ala
bama, North Carolina, South Carolina ana
GeOrgia-all in the South, the new agricult,
ural States and Territories in the West and
Northwest, showing q smaller percentage.
Rhode Island and Massachusetts, show the
smallest percentage of rural populations,
and then New Jersey. with 10 per cent,
among the States of the East. Then we go
to the great mining territories. The great
cereal States show that not much over half
of their inhabitants are engaged in any
branch of agriculture. In Indiana the per-
centage is 81: In Illinois. a: in Iowa. 81; in
Ohio. 40; in Missouri. 81: That is, the most
productive agricultural States are those
which have a large portion of their people
engaged in other pursuits.
Map fifteen Is devoted to the average
value of lands. These range in value from
500 10 per acre liz New Jersey to Sl.19 in
Alabama. The average value In Indiana IS
So. IL; in Illinois. S31.S7; In Iowa, So. 92; in
Ohio. S45.91: IN the country at large, 1922.
The last map IS devOted TO farm %tenures."
IN which the relative proportions OF pro-
prietors, tenants paying money rent. and
tenants paying a share of produce, are
shown. 1t shows that 75.5 per cent. OF the
farms of the United States are cultivated
by their owners: and that the proportion of
share tenants is Us per cent. who are
mostly In the cotton States. 1t shows that
the whole number of farms in the United
States is 1905. 9O7. Indiana has 124,013; Hi
nois, ~oo,fil; iowa, lo.o)l; OnlO, S4',loo:
In Maine the largest per cent. of
farms are titled by the owners-6.7-
and in several States the percentage is
over 90. The percentage of farms titled by
the proprietors in Indiana is 763. in ILL
nois CSC, in Iowa, 76.2. The percentage
titled by tenants paying money rent is "A
in Indiana, 81 in Illinois, and As III Iowa.
In South Carolina the smallest percentage
of farms are titled by their owners, 49.7
not quite half.
Many pertinent deductions might be
made from these statistics, but the most
obvious one is that farms, stock and prod
uce are more valuable where other in
dustries are numerous and strong. and that
the values thereof decline as the number
and Importance of other industries decline.