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 Nov. 17 Solon and Milo Robinson to register La Porte 



Land Office. Application for purchase of 160 acres. 



Department of Interior, General Land Office 

 Nov. 25 *"The Season in Indiana." Cultivator, 5:191 (Jan., 



1839) 106 



1839 Jan. 25 *"The Bur Oak." Ibid., 6:20 (Mar., 1839) 107 



Mar. 20 "Valuable Receipts." Logansport Telegraph, Aug. 



10, 1839, from Franklin Farmer 



July 18 *"How to increase the circulation of Agricultural Pa- 

 pers — Subscribers' Duties." Cultivator, 6:121 

 (Aug. 15, 1839) 108 



July ? " 'The Robinson Fund.' " Lots offered as premiums 

 for agricultural writers now in county-seat town, 

 Lake County. Extract of letter. Ibid., 6:88 

 (July, 1839) 



Sep. 5 *"Plans of Farm Houses." Ibid., 6:164 (Nov., 1839) 112 



Sep. 23 ""'Mammoth Sunflower." Ibid., 6:166 (Nov., 1839). 115 



Oct. 20 "A Hint to the Publisher and Friends of the Culti- 

 vator." Circulation. Ibid., 6:181 (Nov. 20, 1839) 



Dec. 14 ""'Letter from Solon Robinson, Esq." Tribute to 

 Jesse Buel. Uniting of Cultivator and Genesee 

 Farmer. Ibid., 7:19 (Jan., 1840) 117 



Dec. 15 ""'Burning Prairies, &c." Ibid., 7:33 (Feb., 1840).. 118 



1840 Jan. 24 * "Cheap Sheds for Cattle — cheap Gates — and other 



Matters." Ibid., 7:52 (Mar., 1840) 121 



Feb. 25 *Early Will. Strait Collection. 124 



Feb. 28 ""'Weather, Crops, &c. in Indiana." Cultivator, 7:64 



(Apr., 1840) .128 



Mar. 14 "Robinson's Improved Root Steamer." Sketch and 

 explanation of new invention. Ibid., 7:92 (June, 

 1840) 



Mar. 15 ""'Hog Illustration— A True Picture." Ibid., 7:81-82 



(May, 1840) 129 



Mar. 27, *Plans for Harrison Convention at Tippecanoe. In- 



30 dianapolis Semi-Weekly Journal, Apr. 7, 1840. . . . 131 



Apr. 2 "A New Plan for a Bee-Hive." Cultivator, 7:99 

 (June, 1840) 



Apr. 12 ""'Young Men's Convention." Lafayette Free Press, 



May 5, 1840 133 



Apr. ? Extract from letter urging attendance at Harrison 

 Convention. Spirit of '76, Indianapolis, Apr. 25, 

 1840, from La-Porte County Whig 



May 12?*"Ohl never will the boys forget 



The Twenty-ninth of May — " Campaign song 

 for Tippecanoe celebration. Indianapolis Semi- 

 Weekly Journal, May 12, 1840 135 



