740 



INDEX. 



HOME AND HOUSEHOLD : 

 The home, 617 ; the flower garden, 618 ; 

 house plants, 622 ; annuals, climbers, 

 bulbs, 626-635 ; preserving natural flow- 

 ers, ^.-637; parlor, ib. ; living-room, 641 ; 

 bed-rooms, 642-646; sick-room, 647-651 ; 

 culinary department, ^.-655. 



Recipes; for the kitchen, 656-675; for 

 horses, cattle, sheep, etc., 676-685. 



Miscellaneous, 685-690; commercial 

 forms and useful tables, 691-718 ; postal 

 regulations, internal revenue, and natu- 

 ralization laws, 719-724. 



Horses in England and Scotland, 435. 



House Plants, 622-637. 



Hungarian Grass : German Millet, 565. 



I. 



Independence, Declaration of, 725-728. 



Indian Corn (Maize), 578. 



Interest Tables, 716, 717. 



Internal Revenue Tax, 720-722. 



Italian Agriculture, 417. 



Iron Moulders' International Union, 320. 



J. i 



Jewish Agriculture other nations of an- 

 tiquity, 377. 



Johnson's Grass : Mean's Grass, 566. 

 Jones, Evan, 94, 99, 352. 



K. 



Kentucky Blue-grass, 569. 

 KNIGHTS : 



Of Labor, 10, 19, 122, 133, 154, 291, 307, 



318, 325 ; of St. Crispin, 321. 



L.. 



Labor Movement, the, 318-326. 

 Landlord and Tenant, 693. 

 Law points for farmers, 691. 

 Legislative Council, 179. 

 Live-stock, 498-510. 

 " Living-rooms," 641, 642. 

 Loans, Philosophy of, 266. 



M. 



Macune, Dr. C. W., 46, 48, 54, 62, 64, 67, 



78, 93. 95- 10 5. !37. 154. 257, 352. 

 Maize (Indian corn), 578. 

 Maple Sugar, first, 447. 

 Mayflower " Compact," the, 3. 

 Mean's Grass, 566. 



Measurements, Rules of, 709-711. 



Mesquite Grass, 568. 



Miilet, 582. 



Money, proper function of, 264. 



Monetary System, 124-130. 



MORTGAGES: 



Examination of Records, 155; chattel, 



693. 



N. 



NATIONAL FARMERS' ALLIANCE : 



Unrecorded history of, 10-19 > history of, 

 56 ; roll of delegates and first constitution, 

 58 ; charter of, 62, 63 ; invitations extended 

 to other organizations, 64, 65; first na- 

 tional meeting, 66 ; message of President 

 Macune, 67-72 ; demands upon Congress, 

 74-76 ; national meeting of 1888, 78 ; mes- 

 sage of President Macune, ^.-88; con- 

 solidation of National Agricultural Wheel 

 with, 89-91 ; national organ, ib.\ The Na- 

 tional Economist, 93; proclamation con- 

 cerning Agricultural Wheel, 93-95; na- 

 tional meeting of 1889, 96; address of 

 President Jones, 99-105 ; address of Ex- 

 President Macune on the aims and prin- 

 ciples of the Farmers' and Laborers' 

 Union of America, 105-120; resolutions 

 concerning the Eleventh Census, ib-izi. ; 

 report of Committee on Demands, 122, 

 123 ; report of Committee on Monetary 

 System, 124-130; admission and charter 

 of South Dakota, ib., 131 ; offices opened 

 in Washington, 133 ; spread of the Alli- 

 ance on the basis of the " St. Louis Com- 

 pact," 134-137 ; the Sub-treasury Plan in 

 Congress, 137 ; national meeting of 1890, 

 138 ; annual message of President Polk, 

 139-152; examinations of mortgage rec- 

 ords recommended, 154, 155; report of 

 Committee on Confederation, ib., 156; 

 report of Executive Committee, 157-160; 

 of Legislative Committee, ib., 161 ; Geor- 

 gia Resolutions, id., 162; report of Com- 

 mittee on Salutation and Fraternal Rela- 

 tions, ib., 163 ; of Committee on Demands, 

 ?A-i65; seal of National Farmers' Alli- 

 ance and Industrial Union, 167; consti- 

 tution as amended in 1890, ^.-177 ; three 

 great questions: "Land," "Transporta- 

 tion," and " Currency," 179 ; mission of 

 the, 180-191 ; statistics, 1865-1889, 192, 193. 

 Growth of the, 293 ; other bodies, con- 

 solidations with, 294. 



Duty of the membership, 327-330 ; the 

 duty of a reformer, 331-335. 



NATIONAL: 



Trade-union, 80, 84; Labor Union, 322- 

 326. 



