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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]