80 INDIANA HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS 

 TO CURE BEANS. 



Take poles or stakes, (common fence stakes,) into 

 your bean field, and set them stiff in the ground, at con- 

 venient distances apart, which experience will soon show 

 you, and put a few sticks or stones around for a bottom, 

 and then, as you pull an arm-full, take them to the stakes, 

 and lay them around, the roots always to the stake, as 

 high as you can reach, and tie the top course with a 

 string or a little straw, to prevent them from being blown 

 off, and you never will complain again, "that you cannot 

 raise beans, because they are so troublesome to save." 

 They are the easiest crop ever raised, to take care of. 

 Try it, and you will then know it, and thank me for 

 telling you of it. Your friend, 



Solon Robinson. 



N. B. Buckwheat is the best grain that grows, to keep 

 through the winter in a stack. It's all a notion that it 

 must be thrashed as soon as dry. Stack it — try it — it 

 will keep. 



Shobonier Claim — Deposition and Affidavits 



[Ms. in Department of Interior, Bureau of Indian Affairs] 



[November 4, 1837] 

 State of Indiana 



1. 



Lake County j 



SS. 



Before me Milo Robinson, 



a Justice of the Peace for the 

 County & State aforesaid, this 4th day of November 

 A. D. 1837 personaly came Solon Robinson, and under 

 his solemn affirmation, deposes & says that he is now & 

 has been for more than three years last past, a resident 

 upon Section 8 in Town 34 N. of Range 8 W. in the 

 Laporte land district — that he was the first settler upon 

 said Section — that he was well and intimately acquainted 

 with the said Section 8 and also Section 17 in the same 

 Town, in the year 1834 — that there was not then any 

 "Indian Village" upon either of said Sections — that there 



