Great Britain — Continued
servation, in colonies 140; consumption
of timber 143; railways 175, 183; control
of Suez Canal 246; and Panama Canal
246; textiles 265, 276, 291; iron and steel
265; shipbuilding 266; cities 266;
sources of supply for copper 274; wool
275, 276; lumber 275; coal 275; percentage
 of workers in farming and industry
 275; exports of machinery 277;
as market 287, 288; population 287;
commerce 281, 296, 300, 301, 302, 309, 310.
See also England, Ireland, Scotland
Great Lakes 106, 116, 166, 192-194,* 195,
204,* 205, 216, 219, 220, 225, 226
Great Plains, wheat growing 42, 43,* 22.1%;
cattle raising 83,* 88
Greece 53, 279, 281, 308, 329
Greensboro (North Carolina) 237
Guadalajara (Mexico) 155
Guano 336
Guatemala 78, 162, 305,* 329
Guayaquil (Ecuador) 150, 207, 335
Gums 231, 293, 336
Gunpowder 290

Halifax (Nova Scotia) 225, 226
Hamburg (Germany) 190, 268, 331
Hamilton (Ontario) 225
Harbors, satisfactory 207; of United States
208-217,* 219*: of northwestern Europe
266
Hats, exported from South America 336
Hawaii, sugar 71, 292; citrus fruits 77;
commerce 301; area and population 326,
329
Hay 83, 101,* 312
Hemp, Manila 289, 329
denequen 154*
Hessian fly 41
Hides 147, 148, 152, 231, 245. 275, 292, 293.
312, 321
Himalaya Mountains, carriers in 159
Hinterland 208. See also Seaports
tloang Ho, cotton in valley of 7
Holland. See Netherlands
Homestead (Pennsylvania) 254,* 334
Honduras 79, 329
Honey 68, 73
Hongkong 207, 302, 328, 331
Honolulu (Hawaii) 215, 334
Hoosac Tunnel 211
Horses, in United States 100,* 101; used
in transportation 162, 163,* 164, 167,
168, 174; in Asia and Australia 312
Houston (Texas) 198, 213,* 216, 259. 334
Hudson River 193, 196
Hulls, of cotton seed 23
Hungary. percentage of farmers 27: wheat |

Index

343

13; corn 49; cattle 90; copper 119;
railways 183; manufactures 275; silk
279; flax 279; commerce 281, 308; area
and population 329
Junting, as occupation 27
dydroelectric power 237, 263
Jvdroplanes 169

‘badan (Nigeria) 233
(ce, in harbors 208, 219, 225, 226; artificial,
manufactured in New Orleans 258
iceland, fisheries 103
Idaho, sugar beets 70; minerals 325; area
and population 326; manufacturing 327
(linois, corn 47; wheat 53; apples 75; coal
fields 124; forests 135; railways 187;
roads 173; electric railways 185; factory
workers in Chicago 231; minerals 325;
area and population 326; manufacturing
327
[mports, of cotton into United States 20;
into India 22; into China 23; of wheat
‘n leading countries 55; value of, at prinripal
 ports of United States 221; of cotton
nto Great Britain 265; of wool into
reat Britain 265, 276: into Holland
rom Dutch East Indies 270; from Switrerland
 into United States 270; of
vheat into Great Britain 275; into United
States 289-293, 294, 296, 308; from
Great Britain, into United States 300;
‘nto China 302; into Mexico, from United
States 306; rise in value of, into Philipsine
 Islands 306; into Canada and Aus-'ralia
 from United States 307; into outying
 possessions from United States 310;
f raw cotton, into Japan 319
adia, cotton 7, 13,* 19,* 275, 276, 300;
»opulation 22, 328; percentage of farmers
27; size of crops 30; rice and millet 41,
30, 52, 320; wheat 53, 55,275; vegetables
51; sugar cane 71,292; cattle raising 89*;
old 120; forest conservation 140; transsortation
 159, 167, 183, 317; goatskins
245, 292; water power 263*; industrial
levelopment 272; hides 275; purchasing
rower 287; tea 291; foreign commerce
297, 300, 301, 308; percentage of producion
 of chief primary products 312-313;
sattle as draft animals 314; Calcutta, port
315*; goods manufactured 318; area 328
‘ndiana, corn 47; wheat 47; forests 135;
electric railways 185; minerals 325; area
and population 326; manufacturing 327
{ndianapolis (Indiana) 223, 255, 330
Industries, basis of modern 117, 125; and
water power 125; location of 125, 235; of
cities 247; districts of, in United States
249-963*- in the different continents 323