INDEX 



373 



National Council Sovereigns of Industry, 

 constitution, 306. 



National Crop Reporter, 328. 



National Farmer and Horticulture Regis- 

 ter (Philadelphia), 328. 



National Farmers' Alliance (southern), 

 organized, 304; platform, 308, 309; 

 connection with Populists, 309. 



National Farmers' League, 306. 



National Farmers' Museum, 294. 



National Grange, annual sessions: early 

 (1869, 1870), 47, 109 note 2, 241, 317; 

 Sixth (1873), 57, 256; seventh (1874), 

 63-65, 68, 109, no, 295; eighth (Feb., 

 1875), 68, 71, 113, 116, 258, 282, 299; 

 ninth (Nov., 1875), 115, 282, tenth 

 (1876), no, 116, 117, 121, 260; 

 eleventh (1877), 114, 116, 121; 

 twelfth (1878), 116, i2i estab- 

 lished, 42; constitution, 42, 57, 65, 

 285, 299, 317; "founders" lose 

 interest, 45; investigates Boston and 

 New York granges, 62; Declaration 

 of Purposes, 63-65, 109, 112, 303; 

 membership, 65, 65 note 3; dues, 65, 

 70, 284; salaries, 67; financial re- 

 sources 67, 69; reform demanded, 

 68; loans and donations, 68, 258, 283; 

 abolition advocated, 72; advocates: 

 compulsory education, 104; increase 

 of transportation facilities, 112; fed- 

 eral aid for railroads, 113; repeal of 

 demonetization law, 114; reduction 

 of tobacco tax, 116; department of 

 agriculture, 117; patent reforms, 119; 

 federal railroad regulation, 224, 226, 

 228, 229; agricultural education, 290, 

 292 denounces inner orders, no; 

 lack of unity, 117; considers: income 

 tax, 117; transportation question, 

 218, 224; woman's dress reform, 299 

 indorses: Rochdale plan of cooperation, 

 259; primary granges, 291; restric- 

 tion of cotton crop, 296; temperance, 

 298; Washington Monument asso- 

 ciation, 299; Patrons' Centennial 

 Encampment association, 300 atti- 

 tude toward cooperation, 241, 256-260; 



purchases patents, 269; publishes 

 song-book, 280 note 2; allays sectional 

 bitterness, 282; aids distressed Patrons, 

 283; officers lecture, 286; officers 

 suggest programs for local granges, 

 286; organ, 290, 325; establishes 

 farmers' museum, 294; crop reports, 

 294, 295; teaches kindness to animals, 

 299; lessons of ritual, 299; bibliog- 

 raphy, 317, 325. 



National Granger (St. Louis, Mo.), 326. 



National Granger and Farmers' Advocate 

 (Lansing, Mich.), 325, 326. 



National Greenback party, see Green- 

 back party. 



National Record (Dansville, N. Y.), 327. 



National Reform party (Mich.), 94. 



National Wheel, agricultural order, 304. 



Neal Ruggles case (111.), 152. 



Nebraska, increase in population (1860- 

 80), 25; political situation (1865), 

 80; railroad regulation, 196; Farmers' 

 Alliance, 305; bibliography, 320, 326, 



335, 349, 3Si. 



Nebraska Patron, 326. 



Nebraska Patrons of Husbandry, depu- 

 ties appointed, 51; first granges, 54; 

 growth, 58; statistics, 58 ff., 67; de- 

 cline, 67, 73, 268; business agency, 

 249. 



Nebraska State Grange, organized, 55; 

 disbanded, 73; advocates debtor legis- 

 lation, 106; establishes agency, 249; 

 manufactures headers, 268; receives 

 donation for grasshopper victims, 283, 

 284. 



Negroes, effect of emancipation on agri- 

 culture, 5; excluded from Grange, 59, 

 74 note i ; separate organization pro- 

 posed, 74 note i ; Colored Farmers' 

 Alliance, 304. 



Neill, E. D., Minnesota, 334. 



Nevada Patrons of Husbandry, statistics, 

 58ff.,66. 



New England, agricultural condition, 

 4; granges advocate department of 

 agriculture, 1 1 8; railroad commissions, 

 199; Sovereigns of Industry, 307. 



