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INDEX 



Corporations, Independents demand 

 state control, 100. See also Railroads. 



" Corporations and Monopolies," 346. 



Corruption in politics, 36; denounced by 

 Independents, 100; efforts of Grange 

 against, 106, 120. 



Cotton, over-production, 6; area ex- 

 tended by fertilizers, 28; statistics 

 (1860-80), 28-34; attempts to re- 

 strict production, 296; bibliography, 



33i. 



Cotton States Convention, recommends 

 restriction of cotton production, 296. 



Coulter, J. L., Cooperation among Far- 

 mers, 350. " Organization among 

 Farmers," 336. 



County granges, 65, 240. 



Courts, see Granger cases and Granger 

 laws. 



Craig, A. M., elected chief-justice of 

 Illinois, 84, 85. 



Cramer, J. A., Patrons 1 Pocket Com- 

 panion, 336. 



Credit Mobilier, 13, 36, 120. 



Credit System, effect on southern agri- 

 culture, 6; in West, 18. 



Crop mortgages, in South, 6; in West, 

 18. 



Crop statistics, collection by Grange, 44, 

 46, 294-296. 



Cullom, Senator S. M., chairman trans- 

 portation committee, 230. 



Cullom committee, report on transporta- 

 tion, 230; Report, 343. 



Cultivator and Country Gentlemen (Al- 

 bany, N. Y.), 327- 



Currency, effect of depreciation on 

 farmers, 20; attitude toward inflation : 

 Independents, 81, 90, 94, 95, 101, 102; 

 Greenbackers, 91, 309; Grange, 114; 

 Knights of Labor, Farmers' Alliance, 

 and Populists, 309. 



Curtis, B. R., consulted on Potter law, 

 187. 



Dairy farming, in New York, Pennsyl- 

 vania and Ohio, 4; neglect in prairie 

 states, 7; increase in East, 61. 



Dakota, increase in population, 25; 

 Grange statistics, 58 ff., 59; terri- 

 torial grange organized, 63 ; donations 

 for grasshopper victims, 283. 



Darrow, J. W., Patrons of Husbandry 

 336. 



Dartmouth College decision, 12, 209. 



Davidson, Alexander, Illinois, 334. 



Davis, Governor (Minn.) , discusses rail- 

 road legislation, 165. 



Davis, Judge (Wis.), upholds Potter 

 law, 1 88. 



Davis, C. W., The Farmer, the Investor 

 and the Railway, 343. 



Davis, Judge David, elected senator 

 from Illinois, 98; political description, 

 100 note i. 



Davis, W. J., Political Conventions in 

 California, 335. 



Decatur (111.), Illinois State Farmers 

 Association, 76, 95. 



Declaration of Independence, Farmers', 

 86, 87. 



Declaration of Purposes of the Farmers' 

 Alliance of Texas, 303. 



Declaration of Purposes of the National 

 Grange, 64; conservative position on 

 railroad question, 72; asserts non- 

 political character of order, 109; 

 favors internal improvements, 112; 

 favors industrial education, 292; in- 

 fluence on Farmers' Alliance, 303. 



Dedication of Grange Halls, 318. 



Degree of the Golden Sheaf, no, 318. 



Delaware, Grange statistics, 58 ff., 59, 

 66; Grange cooperative stores, 266; 

 bibliography, 333. 



Democratic party, status in 1865, 80; 

 relations with Independent parties, 

 90-98. 



Demonetization law, attitude of Grange, 

 114. 



Denman, J. H., Grange agent, 242. 



Department of agriculture, advocated 

 by Grange, 117; established 118, 122; 

 bibliography, 331. 



Des Moines (la.), state farmers' con- 

 vention, 89; state grange session, 169. 



