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INDEX 



celebration, 56; growth, 56; statis- 

 tics, 58 ff.; business agency, 254. See 

 also Vermont State Grange. 



Vermont Record and Farmer (Brattle- 

 boro), 328. 



Vermont State Grange, organized, 56; 

 advocates railroad regulation, 200; 

 establishes state agency, 254; recom- 

 mends arbitration of disputes, 285. 



Vickers, Senator, opposes federal rail- 

 road regulation, 217. 



Vineland Independent (N. J.), 327. 



Virginia, railroad regulation, 204; bib- 

 liography, 321, 329. 



Virginia Granger (Portsmouth), 329. 



Virginia Patron (Richmond), 329. 



Virginia Patrons of Husbandry, first 

 grange, 56; statistics, 58 ff.; growth, 

 59; state grange organized, 63; favor 

 railroad regulation, 204; business 

 agency, 252. 



Vox Populi (Lawrence, Kans.), 324. 



Wabash, St. Louis, and Pacific railroad 



v. Illinois, 212. 

 Waite, Chief- Justice, decision on railroad 



regulation, 213. 

 Walker, C. S., " Farmers' Alliance," 339; 



" Farmers' Movement," 340. 

 Wall, E. G., editor, Farmer's Vindicator, 



326. 

 Wardlaw, master Florida State Grange, 



shows good-will to North, 282. 

 Warehouse companies, denounced, 53. 

 Warehouse regulation, Illinois, 130, 131, 



134; upheld by Illinois courts, 143; 



decision of United States Supreme 



Court, 143, 207-209, 212. 

 Warner, A. G., " Railroad Problems in a 



Western State," 349; Cooperation in 



the West, 351. 

 Washburn, Governor (Wis.), defeated, 



92, 182; urges railroad regulation, 



181. 

 Washburn, " Sister," advocates women's 



suffrage, 121. 



Washburne, member Illinois constitu- 

 tional convention, 128. 



Washington (D. C.), Patrons of Hus- 

 bandry established, 41; subordinate 

 grange established, 43; National 

 Grange sessions, 47; Grange head- 

 quarters, 49; National Cheap Trans- 

 portation Association, 224. 



Washington (state), Grange statistics, 

 58 ff., 61. 



" Watered-Stock Hallucination," 345. 



Waukon (la.), grange established, 47. 



Waukon Standard (la.), 324. 



Waushara County (Wis.), grange or- 

 ganized, 50. 



Weekly Grange (Little Rock, Ark.), 321. 



Wells, D. A., "How will the United 

 States Supreme Court Decide the 

 Granger Railroad Cases?" 347; "Ra- 

 tional Principles of Taxation," 333. 



Wells, J. G., Grange Illustrated, 340. 



Werner harvester, manufactured by 

 Grange, 268. 



West, Max, " Distribution of Property 

 Taxes between City and Country," 



333- 



West, emigration to, 5; increase of rail- 

 road mileage (1865-80), 24; increase 

 of population (1860-80), 25; foreign 

 population (1880), 27; decline of 

 Grange, 73; Farmers' Alliance, 302; 

 minor agricultural organizations, 302; 

 bibliography, 332, 351. See also North 

 Central division, Northwest, South 

 Central division, Western division. 



West Virginia, Grange statistics, 58 ff., 

 59; state grange organized, 63; rail- 

 road regulation, 202, 203; Grange 

 cooperation, 252. 



Western division, definition of term, 50 

 note 2; Grange statistics, 58 ff., 59-61. 

 See also West. 



Western Agriculturist (and Live Stock 

 Journal} (Quincy, 111.), 323. 



Western Farmer (Dixon, 111.), 324. 



Western Farmer (Madison, Wis.), 329. 



Western Granger and Home Journal 

 (Lafayette, Ind.), 324. 



Western Journal of Agriculture (Milwau- 

 kee), 329. 



