INDEX 



Flour-mills, 234-237 



Food, first necessity, 203, 204; 

 relation between popula- 

 tion and, 204; three prin- 

 cipal articles of, 205 



Foreign trade in Reapers, 123, 

 124, 131-138 



Fowler, Miss Nettie, see Mc- 

 Cormick, Mrs Cyrus H. 



France, U. S. flag flouted by, 

 4; price of labor in, 123; no 

 central wheat market in, 

 222; speculation in, 225; 

 consumption of bread in, 

 239, 240; wheat grown in, 

 240; intensive cultivation in, 

 240 



Frederick of Holstein, Prince, 

 128 



Frederick, Virginia, 3 



Fredericksruhe, Bismarck 's 

 estate, 136 



Free library, none in 1831, 50 



Free trial of Reaper, 80 



French Academy of Science 

 elected Cyrus H. McCor- 

 mick a member, 136 



French Revolution, 156, 204 



Froude, 21 



Fulton, Robert, 7, 11, 21, 53, 

 95 



Fulton's steamboat, 7 



Galatz, 216 

 Galena, 111., 76 



Galilee, Sea of, people who 

 dwell by the, 237 



Gammon, E. H., 116 



Garrison, William Lloyd, 51 



Gas not used in Chicago when 

 Cyrus H. McCormick came, 

 70 



Genoa, 218 



Gerland, Dr., 206 



Germany in 1809, 4; price of 

 labor in, 123; reasons why 

 Reapers are not made in, 136 ; 

 grain inspectors in, 222; 

 legislation against specu- 

 lation in, 225; compared 

 with Red River Valley, 231 ; 

 compared with Great Brit- 

 ain, 240; intensive cultiva- 

 tion in, 241 



Gilkerson, David, 58 



Gladstone, 2, 51 



Glanders, a contagious dis- 

 ease, 5 



Glessner, Reaper manufac- 

 turer, 103, 120 



Gold put in circulation by 

 wheat, 228, 229 



Gold rush to California, 1849, 

 82, 190 



Goodyear, 53, 95 



Gorham, Marquis L., 115, 117 



Grain-car, invention and use 

 of, 211, 212 



Granville, Lord, 131 



Gray & Warner, 66 



Great Britain, see England 



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