As an agricultural state Indiana ranks high. The chief productions are wheat, corn, rye, oats, barley, buckwheat, peas, beans, potatoes, grass, clover-seed, fruit, flax-seed, flax, hemp, hay, tobacco, wool, hops, beef, bacon, pork in bulk, lard, butter, cheese, milk, maple-sugar, maple molasses, sorghum molasses, honey, wax, wine, cider, vinegar, horses, Mules, asses, sheep, swine, mulch cows, working oxen, and other cattle. Some of the products in 1873 arc reported as follows: wheat, 22,149,527 bush.; corn, 81,185,485 bush:; barley, 11,434,628 bush.; fruit, 3,473,161 bush.; tobacco, 12,377,182 lbs.; wool, 2,228, 437 lbs. ; beef, 3,320,067 lbs. ; bacon, 40,716,539 lbs. ; pork in bulk, 40,716,539 lbs. ; maple sugar, 302,041 lbs. ; wine, 827,480 gall.; cider, 1,097,019 gall.; horses, 514,438; sheep, 1,235,874; swine, 2,999,139; cattle, 4,211,246. The wheat crop of 1879 was estimated at 55,000m0 bushels The census of 1870 reports the number of farms at 161,289; 55,614 of which contained from 24) to 50 acres each, 52,614 from 50 to 100 acres, 29,433 from 100 to 500 aeres,.and 1004 from 500 to 1000 acres, while 76 contained upwards of 1000 acres. The cash value of these farms was estimated to be $634,804,189; value of farming implements, $17,676,591; farm wages paid (with board), $9,675,348; total value of all farm productions, $122,914,302; value of orchard products, $2;858,086; home manufactures, $605,639; animals slaughtered and sold for slaughter, $30,246,962; forest products, $2,645,679; live stock, $83,776,762. Coal mined in 1873, _570,382 tons; lime made, 1,167,661 bushels.
Indiana has but one port, Michigan City, on lake Michigan, and no direct foreign commerce: its internal trade by means of its rivers, canals, andrailroads, is of vast extent. Evansville, on the Ohio, is a port of delivery of the United States and a place of con siderable business. In 1873 there were 3,544 m. of railway track in the state. The most important of the roads are the following• Louisville, Xew Albany, and Chicago, 288 in.; Ohio and Mississippi, 225; Evansville and Crawfordsville, 109; Fort Wayne, Muncie, and Cincinnati, 108; Indianapolis, Cincinnati, and Lafayette, 158; Indianapolis, Peru, and Chicago, 161; Indianapolis and Vincennes, 116; Jeffersonville, Madison, and Indianapolis, 110; Pittsburg, Fort Wayne, and Chicago, 156; Toledo, Wabash, and Western, 166. The longest canal in the 'United States is the Wabash and Erie, connect ing the Maumee river at Toledo with Evansville on the Ohio. It is 467 m. long, and its course for 374 m. is in Indiana. The Whitewater canal extends from Lawrenceburg on the Ohio to Ilayestown, 75 miles. Neither of these canals is much used. There were in the state, in 1873, 6,943 m. of telegraph, the assessed value of which was $807,874.
The number of national banks in 1873 was 92, with a capital of $17,611,800, and an outstanding circulation of $14,536,015. There were in the state at the same date 125
insurance companies, the gross receipts of which for six months ending July 1, 1873, amounted to $1,169,413. The total valuation of real and personal property in the state in 1S73 was $950,467,854. The state debt at the same date was $4,898,657.
The number of manufacturing establishments in 1870 was 11,847, employing 58,852 persons, of 54,412 were males above 16 years of and 2,272 females above 15; while 2,168, including both sexes, were below 16: capital invested in these establishments, $52,052,425; wages paid in 1870, $18,366,780; 'value of products, $108,617,278. The chief branches of manufactures are agricultural implements, boots and shoes, carriages and wagons, railroad cars, clothing, flour, furniture, iron, leather, lumber, liquors, machinery, pork-packing, saddlery, woolen goods, tin, copper, and sheet-iron ware.
The legislature, which meets biennially, is composed of a senate of 50 members, elected for four years, and a house of representatives of 100 members, elected for two years. The governor and lieutenant-governor are elected for four years, the former having a salary of $8,000 a year. Members of the legislature are paid $8 per day during the session, The supreme court consists of five judges, elected by the people for a term of Aix years, and receiving an annual salary of $4,000 each. The circuit judges, 38 in number, are elected by the people for terms of six years, and receive salaries of $2,500 each. , The law provides for a superior court of three judges, elected for a term of four years, in any county containing a city of 40,000 inhabitants. Marion co., containing Indianapolis, the state capital, is the only one to which this provision is applicable. Every male citizen of the age of 21 years, who has resided in the state six months, has the right to vote. Wtimen are eligible to any office in the gift of the governor or the legislature. The divorce laws, which were formerly very elastic, are now more strict. Divorce is allowed for seven different causes, including cruel and inhuman' treatment, habitual drunkenness, and failure of the husband for two years to make provision for the support of his family.
The principal public institutions supported wholly or partly by the state are the hos pital for the insane, and the institutions for the deaf and dumb and the blind at Indian apolis; the house of refuge at Plainfield; the soldiers' home at Knightstown; the northern state-prison at Michigan City, and the southern state-prison at Jeffersonville; the reforma tory institution for women and girls in Indianapolis; the normal school in Terre Haute; the state university at Bloomington; and the agricultural college at Lafayette. An act was passed in 1879 to provide for the organization and support of the feeble-minded.