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INDIANA HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS 



Article 14 

 How 

 amended — 



Resolved, that a meeting duly called by the county 

 board, may alter and amend this Constitution — 



Lake Co. Ia. July 6, 1836— 

 I do certify that the forgoing constitution as here re- 

 corded is a true copy from the original draft reported 

 by the committee, and adopted by the meeting, except 

 slight gramatical alterations not varying the true sense 

 of any article — 



Attest — Solon Robinson — Register 1 



Nutmeg Potatoes — Lake Superior Corn 2 



[Albany Cultivator, 4:101-2; Aug., 1837] 



Lake C. H. I a. July 12, 1837. 



Dear Sir — As soon as I can possibly find leisure, I 

 intend to send you a description of the several kinds of 

 prairie, as to appearance, vegetation and cultivation. I 

 hope to send you "prairie flower seeds." 



I have (to us,) a rare kind of potatoes, called "nutmeg 

 potatoes," which ripen in about six weeks, grow small, 

 about the size, and as smooth as hen's eggs — very dry 

 and rich — valuable for garden culture. Have you such? 

 Also — Lake Superior Indian corn — which stools out like 

 wheat, each branch bearing a small, short ear, of a redish 

 yellow color. The stalks low, may be planted very close, 

 and requires the shortest season of any other corn I ever 

 saw to come to perfection. Perhaps it is not new to you. 



1 The signatures to the Constitution, only partially legible in the 

 manuscript, have not been reproduced by Ball or other historians 

 of the county. Additional names were appended as new mem- 

 bers joined the Squatters' Union. There were at least two copies 

 of the Constitution, for Robinson made a note of the transfer of 

 twenty-eight signatures to the copy from which the above tran- 

 script was made. 



3 This letter was Robinson's first contribution to the Albany 

 Cultivator, and the beginning of his career as an agricultural 

 writer. The Cultivator, one of the best edited and most widely 

 circulated agricultural periodicals of its day, was established at 

 Albany, New York, in 1834. By descent and combination it con- 

 tinues today as The Country Gentleman, published at Philadelphia. 



