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diana the average farm contained less than 10 acres of wheat in con- 

 trast to about 20 acres in the Wabash and Scottsburg Lowlands. 



Oats are relatively most important in the northwest part of the state 

 (Kankakee region) where they occupy several times as large a per- 

 centage of the land as in the southern third of the state. They also 

 yield far better in the northern than in the southern parts of the state. 

 It may be due in part to the earlier coming of hot weather towards 

 the south than towards the north. Oats, like wheat, stools more heavily 

 and hence yields best where there is a considerable period of somewhat 

 cool weather for it to grow in, before hot weather causes it to head out. 

 Hay and forage are relatively most important in the rougher morainal 

 section of the northeastern corner of the state and are least important 

 in the poorest section of the state, the Crawford Upland of southern 

 Indiana. 



Contrast in tlie Vcduc of Crops Grown. On the average, the poorer 

 counties of southern Indiana each grew crops worth nearly $1,500,000 

 in 1919, while the better counties in the north central section grew crops 

 worth about $8,000,000. The contrast between the poorest and the best 

 counties in crop production thus is about as one is to eight, when com- 

 parative area is considered. 



Sectioyial Contrasts in Manufactiiring . In manufacturing there is 

 much more contrast than in crops. Warren County, the county which 

 does the least in manufacturing according to the last Census, produced 

 only one eight-thousandth as much wealth by manufacturing as did 

 Marion County, and only one eleven-thousandth as much as did Lake 

 County. The value added by manufacturing in Warren County was 

 only $16,000 in 1919 while that in Marion County was $136,000,000 and 

 that of Lake County, $180,000,000. Four other counties did less than 

 $100,000 worth of manufacturing in 1919. Strange to say, four of these 

 five counties are in the northwestern part of the state near counties 

 which do much manufacturing. Three of them do less manufacturing 

 than Brown County which is the least active of the southern counties. 

 However, when all of the southern counties are compared with the 

 central and northern counties it is seen that southern Indiana is as 

 backward in respect to manufacturing, on the average, as it is in so 

 many other respects. 



Fuller data concerning many of the foregoing points may be found 

 in the author's Geography of Indiana, which is Part I of the Hand- 

 book of Indiana Geology, recently published by the State Department 

 of Conservation, Indianapolis. The tables upon which these contrasts 

 in agriculture and farm equipment are based are given in the Economic 

 Geography of Indiana, soon to be published by D. Appleton & Company, 

 where many other points mentioned above are presented more fully. 



