INDEX 



Abbot, J. C., organizes granges, 54, 62. 



Aberdeen (Miss.), grange organized, 51. 



Absentee ownership of railroads, 13. 



Ackley, Chicago, Milwaukee, and St. 

 Paul Railroad Company ., 211. 



Adams, A. D., " Reasonable Rates," 341. 



Adams, C. F., Jr., books and articles on 

 railroads, 342. 



Adams, D. W., secretary Waukon (la.) 

 Grange, 47; master Iowa State Grange, 

 50; master National Grange, 58; 

 revokes dispensation Boston Grange, 

 62; advocates railroad regulation, 

 224; influence on Sovereigns of In- 

 dustry, 306 note 2. 



Adams, E. F., Wisconsin Method of Rail' 

 way Reform, 348. 



Adams, H. B., ed., Cooperation in the 

 United States, 349. 



Adams, H. C., " The Farmer and Rail- 

 way Legislation," 342. 



Adams County (Wis.), granges organ- 

 ized, 50. 



Adams County Press (Friendship, Wis.), 



329- 

 Agricultural and Mechanical College of 



Ohio, 292. 



Agricultural clubs, see Farmers' clubs. 

 Agricultural colleges, land grants, 26; 



attitude of National Grange, 292. See 



also Agricultural education. 

 Agricultural Congress, organized, 78. 

 Agricultural discontent, 3; in East, 5; 



in prairie states, 7; bibliography, 331- 



333- 

 Agricultural education, gifts by Congress 



misapplied, 37; advocated by Grange, 



64, 104, 292. 

 Agricultural fairs, encouraged by Grange, 



293- 

 Agricultural organization, arguments for, 



39; before the Civil War, 40; bibliog- 

 raphy, 317-321, 335-34L See also 

 Farmers' Alliance, Farmers' dubs, 

 Patrons of Husbandry. 



Agricultural population, proportion of 

 granges to, 58 ff. 



Agricultural press, 38; supports Grange, 

 44, 46, 49, 52; increased circulation, 

 287. 



Agricultural products, statistics (1866- 

 80), 28-34. 



Agricultural Wheel, 304; bibliography, 

 338. 



Agriculture, relative status, 3; in East, 

 4; in South, 5-7; in upper Mississippi 

 Valley, 7; in Far West, 8; effect of 

 panic of 1873, 20; inflation following 

 Civil War, 24-31; technical advance, 

 27; proportion of population engaged 

 in, 35; efforts of Grange to advance, 

 293-297. 



Aiken, D. W., Grange deputy, 55; officer 

 National Grange, 58, 256; pushes 

 department of agriculture bill, 118; 

 editor Rural Carolinian, 328; The 

 Grange, 335. 



Alabama, railroad regulation, 202, 203; 

 flood sufferers, 283; bibliography, 319, 

 321, 335, 349- 



Alabama Patrons of Husbandry, first 

 granges, 56; statistics, 58 ff.; growth, 

 59; influence on legislation, 108; busi- 

 ness agency, 253; cooperative stores, 

 265; insurance, 273 note 9; schools, 

 291; encourage immigration, 297. 



Alabama State Grange, organized, 63; 

 influences legislation, 108; advocates 

 return of cotton tax, 117; establishes 

 agencies, 253. 



Aldrich, C. R., " Repeal of the Granger 

 Law in Iowa," 349. 



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