INDEX. 



657 



Farmers, have not usually understood rail- 

 road questions, 159. 



— Have the basis of success in physical 



strength, 26. 



— How they should deal with trades men, 184. 



— Indebted ; benefits arising from compro- 



mise of indebtedness, 112. 



— Indebted ; consider their creditors his ene- 



mies, no. 



— Indebted; not required to remain slaves, no. 

 —Indebted; should be perfectly frank with 



their creditors, in. 

 —Indebted ; steps to be taken for payment ot 

 compromise, in. 



— Indebted; they are hurt by worry more 



than by work, 112. 



— Indebtedness of; largely incurred for land 



at too high prices, 108. 



— Insist on payment of debts due to them- 



selves, no. 

 Farmers Institute; the, 55. 



— Aims and methods, 59. 



— Difficulty of obtaining good non-profes- 



sional instructors, 57. 



— Farmers who say they can learn nothing 



from them, 59. 



— Gets farmers to thinking and talking, 55. 



— How controlled in different states, 56. 



— Importance of enlisting local talent, 56. 



— Management of, 56, 58. 



— On Pacific Coast, 57. 



— Nature of topics discussed, 56. 



— Professional vs., non-professional instruc- 



tors, 57. 



— Requirements for non-professional instruc- 



tors, 58. 



— Supported by state funds, 56. 



— What it is, 55. 



Farmers ; largely mortgaged, 109. 



— likely to engage in cooperation without 



adequate capital, 209. 



— List of books for, 566-575. 



— Must adapt themselves to their changing 



environment, 21. 



— Must learn to reduce costs, 33. 



— Organizations of, 284. 



— Proper course of with regard to banks, 



100-151- 



— Should vote to strengthen the Interstate 



Commerce Commission, 175. 



— Sources of the most valuable information 



for, 72. 



— Unrest of American, 33. 



— Value, to farmers, of the habit of writing 



to farm papers, 74. 

 Farm Products, home prices of, 636-638. 



— Relative New York price of, 634. 

 Farms; unprofitable unless actually worked 



by owners, 71. 

 Farming; books (see Book Farming), 6g. 



— Scientific, prejudice against the term, 28. 

 Fertilizers, commercial ; uses of, 86. 

 Fertility, causes of loss of, 85. 



Fit, the survival of, 2i. 



Flattery; employed to influence farmers, 114. 

 Foods ; compete with all other foods, 100. 

 Fortunes, great, result of exceptional ability 



with accumulating instinct, 258. 

 Freights (see Railroads). 



— Rates per ton per mile, 646. 



Fruit Fxchange, California (.see California 

 Fruit Exchange). 



— Santa Clara County (see Santa Clara 



County Fruit Exchange). 



— Fruit Exchange, Southern California (see 



Southern California Fruit Exchanges). 

 Funds, party; names of contributors should 

 be public, 118. 



— Public ; result of wasteful expenditure, 187. 



GEOGRAPHY, PHYSICAL; importance 

 not vet recognized in universities, 37. 



— The first thing for the farmer to study, 36. 



— Well uiuterstood by commercial men, 37. 

 G I, a commodity, 368. 



— .\ppreciation of, 378, 614. 



— Ratio of to silver, 618-622. 



— Relation of, to commodities, 369, 625, 645. 

 Gold Standard, argument for, 371-376. 



— Expediency of, 373. 



— Justice of, 371. 



Gold, value as compared with silver, 356. 



— World's production of, 617. 



— World's stock of, 616. 

 Governments, credit of; as compared with 



banks, 147. 

 Gra/duates of Agricultural Colleges, 41. 



— Professional men, 43. 



— Some return to farm, 44. 



Grange, the ; influence of woman in, 289. 



— Influence of, in contest with railroads, 



287. 



— National and state, 288. 



— Objects of, 285. 



— The ; position in regard to speculation in 



farm products, 180. 



— Rise and progress of, 286. 



— Ritual of, 289. 



— " Secresy " of, 289. 



— Subordinate, work of, 288. 

 Granger cases the, 287. 



Grange's dealings, with tradesmen, 184. 



HATCH, WM., Introduces bill for establish- 

 ment U. S. Agricultural Experiment 

 Stations, 543. 



Hope of the farmer, 22. 



— in what it consists, 27. 



Humbug; farmers considered susceptible to, 

 113- 



— The most effective weapon of politicians, 



113- 

 Humus, chemical action of, 86. 



— How to replenish, 85. 



— Importance of in soil, 85. 



— Result of exhaustion of, 85. 



IMMIGRATION, European; its effect on 



American farmers, 106. 

 Income, farmers', affected by causes beyond 



his control, 37. 



— Vary in ratio of definite facts known, 22. 

 Indebtedness, farmers'; as the result of spec- 

 ulative development of industries, 109. 



Index Tables, 370. (See, also, Aldrich, Atkin- 

 son, Economist, Sauerbeck, Soetbeer, 

 and Wetmore.) 



— Best available standards for estimating 



value of precious metals, 371. 

 Industries, household, in old times, 12. 

 Infertility, most common causes of, 84. 

 Information, necessary ; cost of too great for 



single farmers to acquire, 19. 

 Initiative, 415. 



Institute, Farmers'(see P'armers'Institute)55. 

 Interest, rates of; have not fallen on farm 



loans, 377. 

 Interest, rates in U. S., 647. 

 Interstate Commerce Commission, 168. 

 'decisions of, 580-598. 



"OTE.— The decisions of the Interstate 



Commerce Commission are not indexed 



in detail, in tl;^. volume.) 

 Interstate Commerce ComTiiission, Extracts 



from Report of, 598. 

 Issues National ; less important to farmers 



than local, 116. 



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