Federal bankrupt law of 1842, 71 Field, Cyrus W., 155 Field tests, 87-89, 134, 135 Fingers on cutting blade, origin of, 33 Fire department, Chicago, 1846, 72 Fiske, John, 21 Fitch & Co., 66 FitzGerald, 1 Fixed price, Reapers sold at, 80, 81 Flesh food, 205 "Flour Cities," 234, 235 Flour, manufacture of, 234-237 Flour-mills, 234-237 Food, first necessity, 203, 204; relation between population and, 204; three principal articles of, 205 Foreign trade in Reapers, 123, 124, 131-138 Fowler, Miss Nettie, _see_ McCormick, Mrs. Cyrus H. France, U. S. flag flouted by, 4; price of labor in, 123; no central wheat market in, 222; speculation in, 225; consumption of bread in, 239, 240; wheat grown in, 240; intensive cultivation in, 240 Frederick of Holstein, Prince, 128 Frederick, Virginia, 3 Fredericksruhe, Bismarck's estate, 136 Free library, none in 1831, 50 Free trial of Reaper, 80 French Academy of Science elected Cyrus H. McCormick a member, 136 French Revolution, 156, 204 Froude, 21 Fulton, Robert, 7, 11, 21, 53, 95 Fulton's steamboat, 7 G Galatz, 216 Galena, Ill., 76 Galilee, Sea of, people who dwell by the, 237 Gammon, E. H., 116 Garrison, William Lloyd, 51 Gas not used in Chicago when Cyrus H. McCormick came, 70 Genoa, 218 Gerland, Dr., 206 Germany in 1809, 4; price of labor in, 123; reasons why Reapers are not made in, 136; grain inspectors in, 222; legislation against speculation in, 225; compared with Red River Valley, 231; compared with Great Britain, 240; intensive cultivation in, 241 Gilkerson, David, 58 Gladstone, 2, 51 Glanders, a contagious disease, 5 Glessner, Reaper manufacturer, 103, 120 Gold put in circulation by wheat, 228, 229 Gold rush to California, 1849, 82, 190 Goodyear, 53, 95 Gorham, Marquis L., 115, 117 Grain-car, invention and use of, 211, 212 Granville, Lord, 131 Gray & Warner, 66 Great Britain, _see_ England Greece, 225, 241 Greeley, Horace, 72, 129, 155, 167 Gutenberg, 53 H Hague, The, Conferences, 233 Hall, Dr. John, 169 Hall, Patrick, 22, 23 Hamburg, 222 Hancock, candidate for President, 171 Hand-labor, Reaper invented in era of, 48, 49 "Hard Times" measures in Legislature, 71 Harding, George, 91, 99 Hargreaves, inventor of weaving machinery, 53 Harper, Henry, publisher, 21 Hart, Eli, & Co., 52 Harvest season only opportunity of testing Reaper, 61, 92 Haussemann, Baron, 1 Hayes, President, 165 Hayes-Tilden controversy, 165 Heathcoat, inventor of weaving machinery, 53 Henry, Joseph, 21, 50 Herald Square, New York, 6 Hewitt, Abram S., 155 Hite, James M., 63 Hitt, Dr. N. M., 37 Hobbs lock, 131 Hoe press, 49, 69, 131 Holland in 1809, 4; legislation against speculation in, 225; no tariff on wheat or flour in, 240