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over 1850 of 222,442 bushels, while buckwheat shows a decrease of 101,698 

 bushels. For a more comprehensive comparison, there was raised in our 

 State in 1890 six times the barley, three times the corn, six times the oats, 

 six times the rye and nearly five times the wheat that was husbanded in 

 1850. 



There are other interesting and instructing statistics relating to Indi- 

 ana's farm products. In 1899 the production of clover and timothy hay 

 amounted to 3,215,420 tons; the potato crop of the same year was 5,441.672 

 bushels, while of sweet potatoes 1.35,560 bushels were produced; 1,000 tons 

 of broom corn, 790,000 gallons of sorghum molasses, 11,891,464 pounds of 

 tobacco, 144.500,000 gallons of milli, 31,509,140 pounds of butter, 1,083,403 

 pounds of cheese, 1,212.000 dozen of poultry, 39,069,000 dozen of eggs, and 

 4,631,477 pounds of wool were among the products of the farm, while re- 

 turns show great values from the garden and truck farms in the various 

 parts of the State not here enumerated. 



To the student, to the individual who makes comparisons and deduc- 

 tions therefrom, this will inspire the gratifying conclusion that with im- 

 proved methods and the application of modern ideas in farming, as well 

 as in other business pursuits, we have been able to expand in a way that 

 has given us prosperity, wealth, standing and happiness. The farmers of 

 this opening era of the twentieth century must keep on advancing. He 

 must keep in the march of progress, stepping to the tune of advancement 

 and improvement, ever ready to quicken his pace when the columns ahead 

 shall have moved a step in advance. There are many other interests in 

 our great State, in which we all m.ust and will show an interest. We are 

 a resourceful people with splendid traditions as record makers and record 

 breakers, proud that we may )ie of the great class that are the bone and 

 sinew of the body politic, wo must accord to the manufacturer, the artisan, 

 the miner and the builder the honor that is his due. Millions upon millions 

 of capital are invested in manufacturing plants, giving thousands an op- 

 portunity to earn an honest living and gain competence. Since 1850 con- 

 ditions have shown a wonderful and far-reaching change here as well as 

 in the production from the farm. There was then but 13,748 men employed 

 in the various factories of the State, that were operated upon a capital of 

 less than eight million dollars: the value of the products being but $13,- 

 726,000. The report of 1890 shows that in Indiana in that year, there was 

 employed 179,590 men at a wage of $81,540,000, and that the product has 

 reached the value of $304,035,000. The story told in the figures presented 

 is one that must awaken a sense of pride in the heart of every true friend 

 of our great State, and I hope that the splendid showing is but the intro- 

 duction of a better and broader prosperity. 



The State Fair of 1901 will go down in histoiT as a record breaker in 

 more ways than one. The show in all of the departments was most grati- 

 fying and complimentary to the managers. The short crops in several of 

 the standard cereals and vegetables cut down the display somewhat, but 



