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INDEX 



celebration, 56; growth, 56; statis- 

 tics, 58 ff.; business agency, 254. See 

 also Vermont State Grange. 



Vermont Record and Farmer (Brattle- 

 boro), 328. 



Vermont State Grange, organized, 56; 

 advocates -railroad regulation, 200; 

 establishes state agency, 254; recom- 

 mends arbitration of disputes, 285. 



Vickers, Senator, opposes federal rail- 

 road regulation, 217. 



Vineland Independent (N, J.), 327. 



Virginia, railroad regulation, 204; bib- 

 liography, 321, 329- 



Virginia Granger (Portsmouth), 329, 



Virginia Patron (Richmond), 329. 



Virginia Patrons of Husbandry, first 

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

 59; state grange organized, 63; favor 

 railroad regulation, 204; business 

 agency, 252. 



Vox Populi (Lawrence, Kans.), 324. 



Wabash, St. Louis, and Pacific railroad 



v. Illinois, 212. 

 Waite, Chief- Justice, decision on railroad 



regulation, 213. 

 Walker, C. S., " Farmers' Alliance," 339; 



" Farmers' Movement," 340. 

 Wall, E. G., editor, Farmer's Vindicator, 



326. 

 Wardlaw, master Florida State Grange, 



shows good-will to North, 282. 

 Warehouse companies, denounced, 53. 

 Warehouse regulation, Illinois, 130, 131, 



134; upheld by Illinois courts, 143; 



decision of United States Supreme 



Court, 143, 207-209, 212. 

 Warner, A. G., " Railroad Problems in a 



Western State," 349; Cooperation in 



the West, 351. 

 Washburn, Governor (Wis.), defeated, 



92, 182; urges railroad regulation, 



181. 

 Washburn, " Sister," advocates women's 



suffrage, 121. 



Washburne, member Illinois constitu- 

 tional convention, 128. 



Washington (D. C.), Patrons of Hus- 

 bandry established, 41; subordinate 

 grange established, 43; National 

 Grange sessions, 47; Grange head- 

 quarters, 49; National Cheap Trans- 

 portation Association, 224. 



Washington (state), Grange statistics, 

 S 8ff.,6i. 



" Watered-Stock Hallucination," 345. 



Waukon (la.) , grange established, 47. 



Waukon Standard (la.), 324. 



Waushara County (Wis.), grange or- 

 ganized, 50. 



Weekly Grange (Little Rock, Ark.), 321. 



Wells, D. A., "How will the United 

 States Supreme Court Decide the 

 Granger Railroad Cases?" 347; "Ra- 

 tional Principles of Taxation," 333. 



Wells, J. G., Grange Illustrated, 340. 



Werner harvester, manufactured by 

 Grange, 268. 



West, Max, " Distribution of Property 

 Taxes between City and Country," 



333- 



West, emigration to, 5; increase of rail- 

 road mileage (1865-80), 24; increase 

 of population (1860-80), 25; foreign 

 population (1880), 27; decline of 

 Grange, 73; Farmers' Alliance, 302; 

 minor agricultural organizations, 302; 

 bibliography, 332, 351. See also North 

 Central division, Northwest, South 

 Central division, Western division. 



West Virginia, Grange statistics, 58 ff., 

 59; state grange organized, 63; rail- 

 road regulation, 202, 203; Grange 

 cooperation, 252. 



Western division, definition of term, 50 

 note 2; Grange statistics, 58 ff., 59-61. 

 See also West. 



Western Agriculturist (and Live Stock 

 Journal) (Quincy, III.), 323. 



Western Farmer (Dixon, 111.), 324. 



Western Farmer (Madison, Wis.), 329. 



Western Granger and Home Journal 

 (Lafayette, Ind.), 324. 



Western Journal of Agriculture (Milwau- 

 kee), 329. 



