INDEX 



Adams, John, 15 



Adriance, John P., 103, 119 



Advertisements of Reaper, 54, 

 81-83, 112, 134 



Africa not a wheat-eating 

 country, 242 



Agencies established for sale of 

 Reapers (about 1844), 63 



Agents, Cyrus H. McCor- 

 mick's plan in regard to, 83, 

 84,86 



Agriculture, Department of, 87 



Albert, Prince, 125, 132 



Algeria, 242 



Allen, Grant, 205 



America, yacht, 131 



Amsterdam, 222 



Antwerp, no grain stored in, 

 217; Bourse in, 222; third 

 busiest port in world, 239 



Appleby, John F., 115 



Argentina, 209, 212, 225, 228 



Arkwright, inventor, 53, 131 



Armagh massacre of 1641, 22 



Athens, mills at, 236 



Atkins, Jearum, 106 



Augusta County, Virginia, 3 



Australia, wheat crop of, 209; 

 legislation against specula- 

 tion in, 225; development 

 of, 228 



Australian stripper, 200 



Austria in 1809, 4; farm labor- 

 ers received no wages in, 

 123; climate and wheat pro- 

 duction in, 241 



Austrian Emperor decorated 

 Cyrus H. McCormick, 135 



Ayrshire, Scotland, 86 



Babylon, 206 



Baggage Case, 1862-1885, 100 



-102; see also Pennsylvania 



Railroad 



Baltic Exchange, London, 221 

 Baltic, holder of ocean record, 



131 

 Baltimore and Ohio Railway, 



49 

 Baltimore Convention of 1861, 



158, 166 

 Bankers concerned in moving 



of wheat, 223, 224 

 Barbary pirates, 4 

 Barclay, Col. A. T., 40 

 Barge, invention of, 210 

 Battleship turret, improver of, 



95 

 Bavarians in the Tyrol (1809), 



4 

 Beagle, H. M. S., Darwin's 



voyage in, 51 



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