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INDEX 



Mississippi State Grange, organized, 55; 

 demands laws for enforcement of labor 

 contracts, 107. 



Mississippi Valley, agricultural condi- 

 tion, 7. 



Missouri, farmers' convention, 78; politi- 

 cal situation (1865), 80; Independent 

 party, 97; railroad regulation, 194- 

 196; Legislative Farmers' Club, 195; 

 governor recommends federal control 

 of railroads, 218; bibliography, 320, 



326, 349, 351. 



Missouri Farmer (Boonville), 326. 



Missouri Granger (Macon), 326. 



Missouri Patrons of Husbandry, first 

 granges, 49; deputies appointed, 51; 

 statistics, 58 ff., 67; growth, 59; granges 

 for negroes proposed, 74 note i ; busi- 

 ness agency, 249; cooperative stores, 

 265; manufacturing, 269. 



Missouri State Grange, temporary 

 organization, 49; organized, 63; ad- 

 vocates railroad regulation, 195; es- 

 tablishes agency, 249; receives dona- 

 tions for grasshopper victims, 284. 



Mitchell, Alexander, president St. Paul 

 railroad, opposes Potter law, 187, 189; 

 Memorial of Railway Companies, 348. 



Mobile (Ala.), 273 note 9. 



Mobile County (Ala.) eine passende 

 Heimath fur den deutschen Farmer, 



Monopolies, California commission men, 

 8; attacked by farmers, 18; Grange 

 denunciation, 53, 64; transportation 

 on Pacific coast, 60; opposed by 

 Independents, 100; bibliography, 330, 

 331. See also Independent party 

 movement. 



Montgomery Ward and Company, 

 wholesales supplies to granges, 246. 



Montana, Grange statistics, 58 ff., 62, 

 66; bibliography, 320, 326. 



Monthly Talk (St. Louis, Mo.), 326. 



Moody, W. G., Land and Labor in the 

 United States, 332. 



Moore, S. H., suit against Illinois Cen- 

 tral, 140. 



Moore j s Rural New Yorker (Rochester), 



327- 



Morgan, J. T., " Danger of the Fanners' 

 Alliance," 338. 



Morgan, R. P., Jr., Illinois railroad 

 commissioner, 136; criticizes asso- 

 ciates, 137 note i, 140 note 2. 



Morgan, W. S., History of the Wheel and 

 Alliance, 338. 



Morgan's Sons, California Grange agents, 

 250, 252. 



Morsell, J. N., pub., Grangers' Friend, 



35. 



Mortgages, given by farmers for rail- 

 road stock, 10; burden, 19; foreclosed 

 in South to check Grange, 55. 



Moses, John, Illinois, 334. 



Moss, A. S., assists in establishing grange 

 at Fredonia (N. Y.), 49. 



Muir, William, Grange organizer, 49. 



Munn and Scott, Chicago warehouse 

 firm, 143. 



Munn v. Illinois, 143, 143 note 2, 152, 

 207-209. 



Museum, attempted by Grange, 294. 



Napa City (Calif.), state grange 

 organized, 60. 



Nashville (Tenn.), farmers' convention, 

 78; National Agricultural Associa- 

 tion organized, 78. 



Nation (N. Y.), on Granger laws, 190, 

 232 notes; advises against railroad 

 investments, 236; bibliography, 327, 



332, 345 , 347, 348. 



National Agricultural Association, 78. 



National Agricultural Congress, or- 

 ganized, 78; considers transportation 

 question, 219, 220. 



National Agriculturist and Working 

 Farmer (N. Y.), 327. 



National Branch Degree of the Golden 

 Sheaf, no. 



National Cheap Transportation Asso- 

 ciation, organized, 218; advocates 

 bureau of commerce, 224; bibliog- 

 raphy, 342. 



National Colored Farmers' Alliance, 304. 



