Thompson, J. Edgar, 101 Tilden, 76, 165 _Times_, Chicago, 166 _Times_, London, 130 Town and city dwellers, proportion of, 195, 196 Town laborers become farmers, 11 Trans-Siberian railway, 212 Transportation charges on wheat, 213 Transportation of Reapers from Virginia farm, 64 _Tribune_, of Chicago, founded, 71 Trolley, introduction of, 210 Tunis, 242 Turks in Servia (1809), 4 Tutwiler, Colonel, 63 Twine-mill in McCormick factory, Chicago, 197 Twine self-binders, 115-118, 121 Tyre, King of, 206 Tyrol, riot in (1809), 4 U Ulster, county of, 19, 21, 22 Union Army in Rockbridge County, Virginia, 36 Union Pacific Railway, 144 United States, in 1809, 4 _et seq._; Scotch-Irish in, 18-21; papers printed in (1831), 48; railways in (1831), 49; extent and development of (1831), 50; Buffalo chief grain market of, 69; London Exposition display from, 126; inventions credited to, 130; reasons why Reapers were invented in, 136, 201; McCormick's place in history of, 153; production of wheat in, 188, 189; manufacturing and labor in (1884), 189; Reaper little used in, until after 1849, 190; Reaper appreciated in, 191; industrial supremacy of, 195, 229; harvesting machinery industry in, 201; wheat crop of, 209; cost of production of wheat in, 209; railway across, 211; grain inspection in, 222; speculation in, 225; cultivation of semi-arid land in, 228; consumption of bread in, 239; area and population of, compared with India, 242, 243 V Van Buren, Martin, 76, 178 Vermont hay crop, relative value of, 5 Victoria, Queen, 125, 132 Virchow, 51 "Virginia Reapers," 64 Virginia, Scotch-Irish in, 20; main wheat State in 1831, 51, 193; supremacy passing to Ohio, 67 W Wages of harvesters at time of introduction of Reaper, 38 Wallace, Andrew, 40 Wallace, Henry, 106, 107 _Wallace's Farmer_, 106 Walton, N. Y., 76 Warder Reaper manufacturer, 103, 120 Warehouses at Reaper agencies, 83, 84 Warfare, expenses of modern, 233 Washburn, William D., 235, 236 Washington, George, 5, 6, 11, 15, 17, 20, 81, 234 Washington State, 238 Watson, Peter H., 91, 99 Watt, 131 Weaving machinery, inventors of, 53 Webster, Daniel, 15, 76, 95, 164 Weed, Thurlow, 72 West, orders for Reapers from the, 63; transportation to the, 64; McCormick visits the, 65; need of quicker method of cutting grain in the, 65, 66; Chicago helped by use of Reaper in, 73; McCormick's policy developed the, 86; Reaper preceded railway in the, 192; wheat crop of the, 193; railways in the, 211; Reaper advance-machine of civilization in, 227 Wet grain, adaptation of the Reaper to cut, 33, 61, 62 "Whaleback" grain ships, 210 Wheat, 51, 67, 69, 70, 73, 188-196, 201, 203, 205 _et seq._ Wheat Congress, international, 233