INDEX 



Indian Confederacy of Tecum- 

 seh, 4 



Indian Massacre (1764) in 

 Rockbridge County, Vir- 

 ginia, 2 



Indiana wheat crop, 217 



Indigo displaced by wheat in 

 India, 242 



Inspectors of grain, 222, 224 



Insurance agents for wheat, 

 222-224 



Intensive cultivation, 240, 

 241 



Interior, The, 162, 163, 172 



International Harvester Com- 

 pany, 183, 201 



Inventors not encouraged, 6; 

 how treated by Congress and 

 the Patent Office, 95; rights 

 of, as stated by Webster, 

 95 



Iowa, 50, 63, 69, 230 



Ireland, Scotch Covenanters 

 in, 19, 21; famine of 1846 

 in, 71 



Irish immigrants in Chicago, 

 71 



Iron furnace operated by 

 Cyrus H. McCormick, 55-57 



" Iron Man," Atkins's self-rake 

 Reaper, 106, 107 



Iron, price of, about 1833, 55, 

 56 



Italy, no central wheat market 

 in, 222; wheat consumption 

 and production in, 241 



Jacquard, inventor of weaving 

 machinery, 53 



Jails, conditions in, 8, 9 



Jamestown colony, 36 



Janesville, Wis., 114 



Japan, object of, in war with 

 Russia, 204; more wheat 

 consumed and raised in, 

 243 



Jefferson, President, 8, 10, 11, 

 15, 16 



Jenks, Joseph, of Lynn, 5 



Johnson, Reverdy, 91, 98 



Johnson, Senator, of Mary- 

 land, 96 



Jones, William H., 104, 120 



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Kansas, 51, 85, 204, 230, 231 



Kansas City, 216 



Kay, inventor of weaving ma- 

 chinery, 53 



Kelly, inventor, 95 



Kentucky, Scotch-Irish in, 20 



Kinglake, 1 



Kinzie, John, 77 



Knox, John, 18, 58, 156, 157, 

 169 



Koh-i-noor diamond, 125, 126 



Krapotkin, Prince, 204 



Kurtz, Jacob, 58 



Land sales from 1810 to 1820, 

 11 



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