INDEX 



Russia, farm laborers received 

 no wages in, 123; in war 

 with Japan, 204; develop- 

 ment of, 228; wheat produc- 

 tion, consumption, and ex- 

 portation in, 242; famines 

 in, 242 



Russian army in Sweden 

 (1809), 4 



Russo-Japanese War, 204 



Sailors become farmers, 11 



St. Louis, Mo., 73, 216 



Sales system of Cyrus H. Mc- 



Cormick, 47, 78 et seq. 

 Saratoga, N. Y., 7 

 Sault Ste. Marie Canal, 210 

 Sauvage, inventor of screw 



propeller, 53 

 School attended by Cyrus H. 



McCormick, 26 

 Scotch-Irish, the, 17-23, 25, 29 

 Scotland, 18, 74 

 Screw propeller, inventor of, 53 

 Scribner, Charles, publisher, 



21 



Scythe, invention of, 5 

 Secession, War of, 100, 166- 



168, 191, 192 

 Self-binders, 110-115, 117,118, 



121, 208-210, 238 

 Self-rake Reapers, 106, 107, 



110, 114 

 Self-sizing device, Gorham's 



invention of, 117 



Seneca, quoted, 154 



Serfs, 15, 124 



Servia, conditions in (1809), 4 



Sevres porcelain, 53 



Seward, William H., 91, 98, 



155 

 Sewerage, none in Chicago 



when Cyrus H. McCormick 



came, 70 

 Sewing-machine, 17, 49, 60, 



131,210 

 Seymour, Morgan & Co., 66, 



116, 119, 120 



Sheffield steel used in manu- 

 facture of Reapers, 74 

 Sherwood farm, near Elgin, 



111., Ill 

 Shipping, Chicago becomes 



centre for, 73, 215 

 Siberia, Russia seeking seaport 



for, 204; wheat crop of, 209, 



217; railway across, 212; 



development of, 228; might 



take lesson from Red River 



Valley, 231 



Sickle, its use in 1809, 5 

 Side-draught construction of 



Reaper, 33, 34 

 Side-delivery machine, first 



practical, 46 

 Skulls, pyramid of, 4 

 Slaves, work of, 191 

 Smith, Abraham, 60, 62 

 Smith, Joshua, 57 

 Smith, Sidney, 130 

 Social conditions in 1809, 7-9 



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