Holloway, D. P., 96 Holmes, 1, 51 Holmes, H. A., 115 Homestead Act of 1862, 193 Hong-Kong, flour-mills at, 243 Houghawout, John W., 40 Houghton, Lord, 1 Howe, 69, 95, 131 Hudson Bay, 213 Hulled corn, use of, 69 Hungary, speculation in, 224; climate and wheat production of, 241 Hunger, evils due to, 204, 205 Huntley, Byron E., 103, 119 Hussey, Obed, 87, 88, 119 Huxley, 51 Hyatt, inventor, 95 I Illinois, 64, 65, 69, 100, 151, 193 Immigrants supplied with Reapers on credit, 85, 86 India, opium traffic of, 204; cost of wheat production and labor in, 209, 242; railways of, 212; area and population of, 242, 243; wasteful methods practised in, 243 Indian Confederacy of Tecumseh, 4 Indian Massacre (1764) in Rockbridge County, Virginia, 2 Indiana wheat crop, 217 Indigo displaced by wheat in India, 242 Inspectors of grain, 222, 224 Insurance agents for wheat, 222-224 Intensive cultivation, 240, 241 _Interior, The_, 162, 163, 172 International Harvester Company, 183, 201 Inventors not encouraged, 6; how treated by Congress and the Patent Office, 95; rights of, as stated by Webster, 95 Iowa, 50, 63, 69, 230 Ireland, Scotch Covenanters in, 19, 21; famine of 1846 in, 71 Irish immigrants in Chicago, 71 Iron furnace operated by Cyrus H. McCormick, 55-57 "Iron Man," Atkins's self-rake Reaper, 106, 107 Iron, price of, about 1833, 55, 56 Italy, no central wheat market in, 222; wheat consumption and production in, 241 J Jacquard, inventor of weaving machinery, 53 Jails, conditions in, 8, 9 Jamestown colony, 36 Janesville, Wis., 114 Japan, object of, in war with Russia, 204; more wheat consumed and raised in, 243 Jefferson, President, 8, 10, 11, 15, 16 Jenks, Joseph, of Lynn, 5 Johnson, Reverdy, 91, 98 Johnson, Senator, of Maryland, 96 Jones, William H., 104, 120 K Kansas, 51, 85, 204, 230, 231 Kansas City, 216 Kay, inventor of weaving machinery, 53 Kelly, inventor, 95 Kentucky, Scotch-Irish in, 20 Kinglake, 1 Kinzie, John, 77 Knox, John, 18, 58, 156, 157, 169 Koh-i-noor diamond, 125, 126 Krapotkin, Prince, 204 Kurtz, Jacob, 58 L Land sales from 1810 to 1820, 11 Law-school, first in, Chicago, 71 Lexington Female Academy, 40 _Lexington Union_, 54 Lexington, Virginia, 37, 39, 40 Licenses to manufacturers of McCormick's Reaper, 66, 98, 112, 116, 120 Lilley, General, 140 Lincoln, Abraham, 1, 2, 51, 72, 91, 99, 100, 191 Lind, Jenny, 184 Liverpool, 221, 222, 225 Livingstone, 70 Locke, Sylvanus D., 112, 115 Locomotives, early, 49, 50, 192, 210 London Exhibition of 1851, 124-127, 130, 131, 190 London, no grain elevators in, 217; wheat consumption of, 217; Baltic Exchange in, 221, 222; methods of wheat marketing in, 225 "Low-down" binder, 118 Luther, Martin, 156, 157, 173 M