CONTENTS 



PAGE 



INTRODUCTION .......... i 



PART ONE. 

 SEED TIME FOR REVOLT. Conditions prior to 1872 ... 13 



PART TWO. 

 THE UPSTANDING CROP. 1872 ...... 28 



PART THREE. 



THE FARMER SWINGS HIS SCYTHE. The great Lock-Out of 1874 49 



PART FOUR. 



THE AFTERMATH OF THISTLES. The 'Eighties .... 67 



PART FIVE. 



THE WINTER OF DISCONTENT. 



I. The 'Nineties ........ 96 



II. A Gleam of Sunshine: 1894. . . . . .121 



PART SIX. 

 STIRRINGS OF NEW LIFE. 1900 ...... 145 



PART SEVEN. 

 GROWTH UNDER STORMY SKIES. 1910-14 ... . 177 



PART EIGHT. 

 WHAT O-F THE HARVEST ? 



I. The Autumn of 1914 ....... 233 



II. The Organizer at Work . . . . . . 2^9 



III. The Corn Production Act at Work .... 288 

 IV. 1920 .......... 317 



CHIEF BOOKS AND PAPERS VSED ...... 332 



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