INDEX 



Tyre, King of, 206 

 Tyrol, riot in (1809), 4 



U 



Ulster, county of, 19, 21, 22 

 Union Army in Rockbridge 



County, Virginia, 36 

 Union Pacific Railway, 144 

 United States, in 1809, 4 et 

 seq.; Scotch-Irish in, 18-21; 

 papers printed in (1831), 48; 

 railways in (1831), 49; ex- 

 tent and development of 

 (1831), 50; Buffalo chief 

 grain market of, 69; London 

 Exposition display from, 126; 

 inventions credited to, 130; 

 reasons why Reapers were 

 invented in, 136, 201; Mc- 

 Cormick's place in history 

 of, 153 ; production of wheat 

 in, 188, 189; manufacturing 

 and labor in (1884), 189; 

 Reaper little used in, until 

 after 1849, 190; Reaper ap- 

 preciated in, 191; industrial 

 supremacy of, 195, 229; 

 harvesting machinery indus- 

 try in, 201; wheat crop of, 

 209; cost of production of 

 wheat in, 209; railway across, 

 211 ; grain inspection in, 222; 

 speculation in, 225; culti- 

 vation of semi-arid land in, 

 228; consumption of bread 

 in, 239; area and popula- 



tion of, compared with In- 

 dia, 242, 243 



Van Buren, Martin, 76, 178 

 Vermont hay crop, relative 



value of, 5 



Victoria, Queen, 125, 132 

 Virchow, 51 

 "Virginia Reapers," 64 

 Virginia, Scotch-Irish in, 20; 



main wheat State in 1831, 51, 



193; supremacy passing to 



Ohio, 67 



W 



Wages of harvesters at time 

 of introduction of Reaper, 

 38 



Wallace, Andrew, 40 



Wallace, Henry, 106, 107 



Wallace's Farmer, 106 



Walton, N. Y., 76 



Warder, Reaper manufacturer, 

 103, 120 



Warehouses at Reaper agen- 

 cies, 83, 84 



Warfare, expenses of modern, 

 233 



Washburn, William D., 235, 

 236 



Washington, George, 5, 6, 11, 

 15,17,20,81,234 



Washington State, 238 



Watson, Peter H., 91,99 



Watt, 131 



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